Companies Shortlisted for IR Magazine's Annual Investor Relations Awards Announced.LONDON -- 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 Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. officer, best investor relations by a CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and best corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. . 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 Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) is the trade body and professional institute for leading agencies in the UK's advertising, media and marketing communications industry, covering the creative, digital, direct marketing, healthcare, media, outdoor, sales promotion and . 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. A full list of nominees and categories is attached. 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 ctn abbr. cotangent Communications, Greenaways, Hugin, IPREO, MacKenzie Partners, PrecisionIR, PR Newswire  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Radley Yeldar, Bank of New York The Bank of New York, abbrieviated to BNY, was a global financial services company that existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007.[1] The bank now continues under the new name of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. , the Financial Times, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, Thomson and VMA VMA vanillylmandelic acid. Group. To obtain a press copy of the Investor Perception Study, UK 2007/2008, please contact Claire Hunte on +44 20 7251 7520. -ENDS- 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 New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 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. www.thecrossbordergroup.com 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. IR MAGAZINE UK AWARDS 2007 SHORTLISTED COMPANIES Grand prix for best overall investor relations * Barclays * BG Group * BP * BT Group Grand prix for best investor relations by a FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. 250 company * ARM Holdings * Autonomy * Cookson * LogicaCMG Grand prix for best smaller company investor relations * Anite Group * Detica * Rok * Sportingbet Best investor relations officer at a FTSE 100 company * Barclays - James Johnson & team * BP - Peter Hall & Fergus MacLeod * BT Group - Phil Moses & Mark Smith * Royal Bank of Scotland Group The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LSE: RBS) is a British banking and insurance holding company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.[1] It includes The Royal Bank of Scotland plc [2]) founded in 1727 by a Royal Charter of King George I. - Richard O'Connor Best investor relations officer at a non-FTSE 100 company * ARM Holdings - Bruce Beckloff * Carillion - John Denning * Cookson - Isabel Luetgendorf * Intertek Group - Aston Swift * LogicaCMG - Karen Keyes Best corporate literature by a FTSE 100 company * Aviva * Barclays * BP * HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) Best corporate literature by a non-FTSE 100 company * Anite Group * LogicaCMG * Rank Group Best narrative reporting * Friends Provident * HBOS HBOS Halifax Bank of Scotland * Land Securities * National Grid Best use of the internet for investor relations by a FTSE 100 company * Barclays * BP * Prudential * Royal Bank of Scotland Group Best use of the internet for investor relations by a non-FTSE 100 company * Cookson * LogicaCMG * Misys * Serco Group Best use of virtual conferencing * BP * BT Group * J Sainsbury * Vodafone Group Best results meetings and analyst briefings * Barclays * BG Group * HBOS * Royal Bank of Scotland Group Best communication of shareholder value creation * Barclays * BG Group * Imperial Tobacco Group * Tesco Best crisis management * BP * HSBC * Interserve * Sportingbet Best investor relations during a takeover * LogicaCMG * Mitchells & Butlers * Premier Foods * Xstrata Most progress in investor relations by a FTSE 100 company * Legal & General Group * Royal Bank of Scotland Group * Royal Dutch Shell Royal Dutch Shell plc is a multinational oil company of British and Dutch origins. It is one of the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" (vertically integrated private sector oil exploration, natural gas, and petroleum product * Standard Life Most progress in investor relations by a non-FTSE 100 company * Cookson * Intertek Group * Misys Best disclosure practice * Aviva * Barclays * BP * HBOS Best corporate governance * BP * BG Group * BHP Billiton * British Land Company * Imperial Tobacco Group Best practice of corporate social responsibility * Marks and Spencer * Northern Rock * Rio Tinto Best investor relations by a CEO at a FTSE 100 company * BG Group - Frank Chapman * HBOS - Andy Hornby * Northern Rock - Adam Applegarth * Scottish and Southern Energy - Ian Marchant Best investor relations by a CEO at a non-FTSE 100 company * Autonomy - Mike Lynch * Carphone Warehouse - Charles Dunstone * Detica - Tom Black * Serco Group - Kevin Beeston & Christopher Hyman Best investor relations by a CFO See Chief Financial Officer. at a FTSE 100 company * Aviva - Andrew Moss * Barclays - Naguib Kheraj * HSBC - Douglas Flint * Legal & General Group - Andrew Palmer Best investor relations by a CFO at a non-FTSE 100 company * Rentokil Initial - Andrew Macfarlane MacFarlane or Macfarlane is a surname shared by:
* Serco Group - Andrew Jenner * Tullow Oil - Tom Hickey * Xansa - Gordon Stuart Best investor relations for a new issue * Experian Group * Just Retirement * Scott Wilson Best investor relations by an AIM company * Debt Free Direct Group * Peter Hambro Mining Peter Hambro Mining PLC is a London-based gold mining company with operations in Russia. Its shares are listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. * Spice * Sportingbet Best North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. investor relations in the UK market * GE * Procter & Gamble * TELUS TELUS Telemetric Universal Sensor * Wal-Mart Stores Best UK company investor relations in the US market * BP * GlaxoSmithKline * Rio Tinto * SABMiller |
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