BT, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Barclays among nominees for the second annual CorpComms Awards

Oct 11, 2007

London, October 11, 2007 – Some of the country’s most influential companies and not-for-profits have been shortlisted for the second annual CorpComms Awards. Winners will be announced at the annual gala dinner to be held in London at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Wednesday, November 28. Comedian Frankie Boyle will be Master of Ceremonies at the awards presentation.

Award categories include best CSR strategy, best crisis management, best employee communications, best corporate brand management and best communications by a voluntary sector organisation. A full list of nominees in all categories appears below.

The awards will be co-sponsored by companies including CitySavvy, Durrants, Media Training Masterclasses, SSK Conferences & Live Events and Penrose Financial.

Qualified candidates were invited to submit applications for the award categories open to competition. The shortlist was selected by an independent panel of judges chaired by CorpComms editor Helen Dunne and included representatives from trade bodies and associations, and experts who specialise in the various award categories. The category of best financial and business media relations was judged by a separate panel of business journalists.

About CorpComms and Cross Border Ltd
Launched in June 2005, CorpComms is the only monthly magazine targeted at in-house corporate communicators. Written by experienced and well-known journalists, CorpComms covers all the issues that matter to today's communicator. Recent issues have included an analysis of the childhood obesity debate, the prospects for companies setting up in Second Life and the need for PR agencies in the future.

CorpComms is published by Cross Border, which was founded in 1993 and also publishes the well-established IR magazine.

For more information contact:
CorpComms
Kate Giblin
Tel (direct): + 44 20 7251 7520

Penrose Financial
Andrew Nicolls / Francesca Reville
Email: andrewn@penrose.co.uk / francescar@penrose.co.uk
 

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Full list of nominated companies

Best annual report, not-for-profit & non-listed

• Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)   
• Girlguiding UK   
• Medical Research Council

Best annual report, quoted   

• Dairy Crest Group
• ITV
• Land Securities
• Partygaming
• Speedy Hire

Best corporate brand management   

• Aviva
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority   
• Sheffield Hallam University

Best corporate website, not-for-profit & non-listed   

• August Equity
• Missing People   
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority   

Best corporate website, quoted

• Aviva
• BAE Systems   
• BT

Best crisis management   

• British Airways
• Manchester Metropolitan University   
• Tesco Stores

Best CSR strategy

• Carillion
• InterfaceFlor
• Lexis Sport   

Best employee communications   

• Carillion   
• Southern Water   
• Stockport Council   
• The Unite Group   
• Westminster City Council   

Best financial and business media relations

• The Boots Pension Scheme trustees
• HSBC Insurance
• Scottish Widows

Best online annual report

• The Body Shop
• The British Library   
• Cadbury Schweppes

Best public sector corporate communications

• The British Library   
• Cheshire and Merseyside Bowel Cancer Screening team
• Northumbria Police   
• VisitBritain

Best rebranding exercise   

• AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians)   
• Ambius   
• Home Group

Best use of broadcast as part of comms strategy

• British Antarctic Survey
• HBOS   
• University of Bath   

Best use of new media as part of comms strategy   

• BP
• History Matters
• Premier Farnell

Corporate communications officer

• Nick von Schirnding, Anglo American   
• Sally Sykes, AstraZeneca   
• Stephen Whitehead, Barclays
• David Boardman, Littlewoods Shop Direct Group

Young achiever

• David Hamilton, Fenland District Council
• Fran Chambers, Tube Lines
• Oliver Tipper, University of Bradford