Australia 2005 IR Awards Nominees Announced; Awards to be Presented September 21 in Sydney.Sydney, Australia, Sept 19, 2005 - (JCN Newswire) - The sixth annual IR Magazine Australia Awards, hosted by IR Magazine in association with Computershare, will take place on Wednesday, September 21 at the Westin Sydney. The awards are based on an annual independent survey of the investment community to identify those companies considered to be leading exponents of investor relations in the UK. The research, conducted for the fifth year by the Financial Research Company, also investigates contemporary developments affecting the IR profession. Additionally, there will be an Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) conference in association with IR magazine during the day, prior to the evening awards ceremony. The conference will comprise plenary sessions, streamed breakout discussions and expert presentations on the most pressing issues and challenges facing today's IRO. The awards are in association with Computershare, and co-sponsored by AAP MediaNet, ACN Newswire, Armstrong Miller + McLaren, Australian Stock Exchange, boardroomradio, Citibank, Georgeson Shareholder Communications, Orient Capital, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sky News Australia, Thomson STREAMX and World Television. Awards nominees, in company alphabetical order: Grand prix for best investor relations by an ASX ASX - Active Streaming XML ASX - Asymptomatic ASX - Australian Stock Exchange ASX - Auxiliary Switch Exchange ASX - Windows Media Player Playlist (file extension) 100 company ANZ ANZ - Australia and New Zealand ANZ - Air New Zealand (NZ national airline) ANZ - Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ASX: ANZ) BHP Billiton Billiton: see Belitung. (ASX: BHP) BlueScope Steel (ASX: BSL BSL - Bachelor of Sacred Literature BSL - Bachelor of Science in Languages BSL - Bachelor of Science in Law BSL - Bachelor of Science in Linguistics BSl - Balto-Slavic (linguistics) BSL - Bank of Sierra Leone BSL - Basel, Switzerland - Basel (Airport Code) BSL - Basic Systems List BSL - Beaver Scout Leader (UK scouting) BSL - Below Sea-Level BSL - Best Straight Line BSL - Binary Segment Leader BSL - Biohazard Safety Level) Stockland (ASX: SGP) Grand prix for best investor relations by a non-ASX 100 company Coates Hire (ASX: COA) David Jones (ASX: DJS) Macarthur Coal (ASX: MCC) SFE Corporation (ASX: SFE) SingTel (ASX: SGT) Smorgon Steel (ASX: SSX) Valad Property Group (ASX: VPG) Best investor relations officer at an ASX 100 company Stephen Higgins - ANZ (ASX: ANZ) John Knowles - BlueScope Steel (ASX: BSL) Sean O'Sullivan - St George Bank (ASX: SGB) Johanna Keating - Stockland (ASX: SGP) Best investor relations officer at a non-ASX 100 company Helen Karlis - David Jones (ASX: DJS) Karen Mazor - Hutchison Telecoms (ASX: HTA) Robert Reis - Nufarm (ASX: NUF) Bruce Loveday - Smorgon Steel (ASX: SSX) Best investor relations by a CEO or chairman at an ASX 100 company John McFarlane - ANZ (ASX: ANZ) Chip Goodyear - BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) Grant King Origin Energy (ASX: ORG) Gail Kelly - St George Bank (ASX: SGB) Best investor relations by a CEO or chairman at a non-ASX 100 company Bruce Phillips - AWE (ASX: AWE) Malcolm Jackman - Coates Hire (ASX: COA) Mark McInnes - David Jones (ASX: DJS) Most progress in investor relations by an ASX 100 company Brambles bramble, name for plants of the genus Rubus [Lat.,=red, for the color of the juice]. This complex genus of the family Rosaceae (rose family), with representatives in many parts of the world, includes the blackberries, raspberries, loganberries, boysenberries, and dewberries. The plants are typically shrubs with prickly stems (called "canes") and edible fruits that botanically are not berries but aggregates of drupelets (see fruit). (ASX: COA) Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA) CSL (ASX: CSL) Macquarie Bank (ASX: MBL) Most progress in investor relations by a non-ASX 100 company Downer EDI (ASX: DOW) FKP FKP - Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Pounds (ISO currency code) FKP - False Key Pulse (Bellcore) Property Group (ASX: FKP) SingTel (ASX: SGT) Smorgon Steel (ASX: SSX) United Group (ASX: UGL) Best communication of corporate performance & shareholder value creation ANZ (ASX: ANZ) BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) Macquarie Bank (ASX: SSX) Rinker Group (ASX: RIN) Wesfarmers (ASX: WES) Best investor relations for a new issue Babcock & Brown (ASX: BNB BNB - Bed 'n Breakfast BNB - Bad News Bears (movie) BNB - Banana Nut Bread BNB - Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (Brazil) BNB - Bank of New Brunswick BNB - Banque Nationale de Belgique BNB - Belgian National Bank BnB - Black 'N Blue (Rolling Stones album) BNB - Books Not Bars BnB - Branch and Bound BnB - Bread 'n Butter BNB - Bread and Breakfast (usually seen as B&B) BNB - Brew Not Bombs BNB - British National Bibliography) Tattersall's (ASX: TTS) Tishman Speyer (ASX: TSO) Best investment community meetings ANZ (ASX: ANZ) BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) Macquarie Infrastructure Group (ASX: MIG) Wesfarmers (ASX: WES) Best investor relations & communications during a takeover BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) GPTGroup (ASX: GPT) WMC Resources (ASX: WMC) Best applied corporate governance BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) Stockland (ASX: SGP) Wesfarmers (ASX: WES) Westpac Banking Corporation (ASX: WBC) Best corporate literature ANZ (ASX: ANZ) BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) Best use of technology for investor relations BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) Macquarie Infrastructure Group (ASX: MIG) Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) Telstra (ASX: TLS) Best ongoing management of continuous disclosure to the investment community ANZ (ASX: ANZ) BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) Woolworths (ASX: WOW) Best investor relations by a New Zealand company Auckland International Airport (ASX: AIA) Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (ASX: FPH FPH - Federal Personal Holding Company (IRB) FPH - Feet Per Hour FPH - First Peoples' House (McGill University centre for First Nations and Inuit students) FPH - Frags Per Hour (gaming slang)) Telecom New Zealand (ASX: TEL) Tower (ASX: TWR) Copyright [c] 2005 JCN Newswire. 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