IR magazine launches new combined UK & Continental Europe Awards
Mar 05, 2009
London, March 5, 2009 – IR magazine is delighted to announce the launch of our new combined IR Magazine UK & Continental Europe Awards. The resulting gala awards event will take place at Artillery Garden, London on Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
After many calls to provide a benchmark of excellence in IR across continental Europe and the UK, IR magazine has united the two well-established events. The continued internationalisation of the financial markets means most UK and continental European companies of any size measure themselves – and are measured by portfolio managers and analysts – against other companies in their sector across continental Europe. The new combined research and awards will reflect that approach, and enable investor relations professionals to benchmark their programmes accordingly.
The awards have their foundation in an independent survey of buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts and fund managers. These investors elect the best performers of investor relations via in-depth, one-to-one phone interviews, covering categories such as best IR during a corporate transaction and best IR by a CEO. The complete results of the survey will be published in IR magazine’s Investor Perception Study, UK & Continental Europe 2009/2010.
IR magazine will also use the combined event to launch the IR Magazine Euro Leaders – an elite group of the top performers in investor relations, selected through our awards research. On the day of the awards ceremony, IR magazine will host a new event: the Euro Leaders Think Tank. The think tank is by invitation- only, and the format allows these top IR professionals to participate in small, lively roundtable discussions about the challenges facing IR today.
Following the think tank, country-specific awards will be announced at a lunchtime ceremony.
For more information on these two new events, please visit our website at www.irmagazine-uk-euro.com or contact Kate Giblin at the number listed at the bottom of this release.
About Cross Border Ltd and IR magazine
Cross Border Ltd 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, Europe, Canada, the Nordic region, Asia, Brazil and Ireland, with a combined annual attendance of around 8,000 investor relations professionals. Visit www.thecrossbordergroup.com for more details.
The IR magazine investor perception studies together make up the world’s largest survey of this kind, canvassing over 5,000 analysts and investors in more than 10 countries and regions. Survey respondents nominate companies in specific categories and offer their opinions on IR-related topics and trends. For more information on the study, please contact Kate Giblin at the number listed below.
For more information, contact:
Kate Giblin
Webcomms manager
Tel (direct): +44 20 7251 7520