Companies shortlisted for IR magazine’s annual UK investor relations awards announced
Jun 15, 2007
LONDON, June 15, 2007 – More than 50 UK companies were shortlisted in over 20 categories for the upcoming 15th annual IR Magazine UK Awards. The black-tie event, to be hosted by Ed Bryne, will take place at the Artillery Garden in London on June 27.
The investment community voted for the top companies in 29 separate categories including best investor relations officer, best investor relations by a CEO and best corporate governance. One of the newer categories, best narrative reporting, was judged by a special panel convened by category sponsor the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. The IR Magazine UK Awards is the largest event of its type in Europe, attended by close to 600 professionals including investor relations officers, CFOs, CEOs and service providers.
Among the shortlisted companies are ARM Holdings, Barclays, BG Group, Autonomy, Cookson, LogicaCMG, Detica and Rok. View a full list of nominees and categories.
Mary Maude was commissioned by Cross Border, event producer, publisher of IR magazine and host of the IR Magazine Awards worldwide, to conduct the investor perception study for the awards. The study gathered votes for the evening’s winners and canvassed opinion on current issues in the IR community.
The awards are sponsored by 85four, Business Wire, Cantos, CTN Communications, Greenaways, Hugin, IPREO, MacKenzie Partners, PrecisionIR, PR Newswire, Radley Yeldar, Bank of New York, the Financial Times, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, Thomson and VMA Group.
To obtain a press copy of the Investor Perception Study, UK 2007/2008, please contact Claire Hunte on +44 20 7251 7520.
Notes to editors:
Cross Border Ltd
Cross Border Ltd (formerly Cross-Border Publishing) was founded in the UK in 1993 and is the publisher in New York and London of IR magazine, the only global publication focused on the interface between companies and their investors. IR magazine hosts annual awards ceremonies in the US, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, the Nordic region, Asia, Brazil and Ireland with a combined annual attendance of around 8,000 investor relations professionals. An IR conference was launched in India in February 2006. Cross Border also publishes Corporate Secretary in North America and CorpComms in Europe. The Cross Border contract division offers publishing and event management to the financial and corporate communications sectors in Europe and the Americas.
Awards
The IR Magazine Awards are an ongoing annual series of surveys and awards conducted around the world by Cross Border. Winning companies are selected through independent surveys of investment professionals and retail investors. These investor perception studies together make up the world’s largest survey of its kind, annually canvassing over 5,000 portfolio managers, buy-side and sell-side analysts and retail investors in more than 14 countries or regions. Survey respondents nominate companies in specific categories and offer their opinions on specific IR-related topics and trends.
Contact:
Claire Hunte
Communications director
Tel: +44 20 7251 7520
Mob: +44 7952 468467