Dutch companies top investor relations awards
Jun 24, 2009
London, June 24, 2009 – Dutch companies won the most awards at last night’s IR Magazine UK & Continental Europe Awards, gathering 14 gongs at the ceremony in London. Dutch firm Royal KPN won several awards including Grand Prix for best overall investor relations at a large cap company and best investor relations by a company in the telecoms sector. UK companies won 11 awards, while German companies took home 10.
The winners were identified by an independent survey, commissioned by IR magazine and carried out by Mary Maude Research. The firm canvassed 700-plus portfolio managers, buy-side analysts and sell-side analysts across Europe during in-depth telephone interviews. The survey results are now available in IR magazine’s Investor Perception Study, UK & Continental Europe 2009.
The award winners were announced last night at a prestigious awards ceremony at Artillery Garden, London.
The IR Magazine UK & Continental Europe Awards 2009 were co-sponsored by Arkadin Global Conferencing, Business Wire, Imagination Investor Communications, Ipreo, OTCQX, PR Newswire Europe, Radley Yeldar, the Bank of New York Mellon and the Investor Relations Society.
For more information, visit our website: www.irmagazine-uk-euro.com.
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. For more information on these studies, please contact Katy Littlewood at the number at the bottom of this release.
About Cross Border Ltd and IR magazine
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Full list of winners
Best corporate governance and disclosure policy
Royal Ahold
Best use of technology
SAP
Best analyst/investor meetings – small or mid-cap
Umicore
Best analyst/investor meetings – large cap
Telefónica
Best adaptation to the needs of IR in a downturn – small or mid-cap
Randstad
Best adaptation to the needs of IR in a downturn – large cap
AXA
Best practice of corporate social responsibility
Marks and Spencer
Best investor relations by a UK company in the US market
Vodafone Group
Best investor relations by a continental European company in the US market
SAP
Best investor relations by a CFO – small or mid-cap
Huub van Rozendaal - Sligro Food Group
Best investor relations by a CFO – large cap
Marcel Smits - Royal KPN
Best investor relations by a CEO – small or mid-cap
Simon Wolfson - Next
Best investor relations by a CEO – large cap
Andrew Witty - GlaxoSmithKline
Best corporate literature
Nestlé
Best investor relations during a corporate transaction
InBev
Best investor relations officer – small or mid-cap
Cláudia Falcão - Jerónimo Martins
Best investor relations officer – large cap
Karl Mahler - Roche
Grand Prix for best overall investor relations - companies on a small-cap exchange
ASOS.com
Grand Prix for best overall investor relations – small or mid-cap
Sligro Food Group
Grand Prix for best overall investor relations – large cap
Royal KPN
Best investor relations by an Austrian company
Erste Group
Best investor relations by a Belgian company
Delhaize Group
Best investor relations by a Czech company
CEZ Group
Best investor relations by a Dutch or Luxembourg company
Royal KPN
Best investor relations by an Estonian company
Tallinna Vesi
Best investor relations by a French company
AXA
Best investor relations by a German company
E.ON
Best investor relations by a Greek company
Titan Group
Best investor relations by a Hungarian company
Magyar Telekom
Best investor relations by an Italian company
Assicurazioni Generali
Best investor relations by a Polish company
PKN ORLEN
Best investor relations by a Portuguese company
Portugal Telecom
Best investor relations by a Russian company
Rosneft
Best investor relations by a Spanish company
Telefónica
Best investor relations by a Swiss company
Nestlé
Best investor relations by a UK company
Unilever
Best investor relations officer in an Austrian company
Angelika Altendorfer-Zwerenz - OMV
Best investor relations officer in a Belgian company
Guy Elewaut & Geert Verellen - Delhaize Group
Best investor relations officer in a Czech company
Barbara Seidlová - CEZ Group
Best investor relations officer in a Dutch company
Dorothy Hillenius - ING Groep
Best investor relations officer in a French company
Etienne Bouas-Laurent - AXA
Best investor relations officer in a German company
(joint winner) Oliver Schmidt - Allianz
(joint winner) Kiran Bhojani - E.ON
Best investor relations officer in a Hungarian company
Krisztina Förhécz - Magyar Telekom
Best investor relations officer in an Italian company
Simone Sole - Mediaset
Best investor relations officer in a Polish company
Tomasz Poźniak - Telekomunikacja Polska
Best investor relations officer in a Portuguese company
Cláudia Falcão - Jerónimo Martins
Best investor relations officer in a Russian company
Alexey Bogdanchikov - Rosneft
Best investor relations officer in a Spanish company
María García-Legaz Ponce - Telefónica
Best investor relations officer in a Swiss company
Karl Mahler - Roche
Best investor relations officer in a UK company
Steve Webb - Tesco
Best investor relations by sector
Aerospace & defence
BAE Systems
Automobiles & parts
Renault
Banks & financial services
ING Groep
Chemicals/Speciality chemicals
Bayer
Construction & materials
Holcim
Diversified industrials/Industrial machinery/Electronics
Siemens
Food & beverages/Tobacco
Nestlé
Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals & biotech
Roche
Insurance
AXA
Media
Pearson
Metals/Mining/Steel
Umicore
Oil & gas
Royal Dutch Shell
Personal care & household/Luxury goods
Reckitt Benckiser Group
Real estate
British Land
Retail
Royal Ahold
Support services/Business services
Randstad
Technology hardware & equipment
(joint winner) ASML
(joint winner) Kontron
Technology software & services
SAP
Telecoms
Royal KPN
Transport & transport services
TNT
Travel & leisure
Accor
Utilities
E.ON