The Investor Relations Society
Best Practice Awards

Black Sun Global is a stakeholder advisory and engagement agency that's been driving transformation and positive change for ambitious global brands for more than 20 years. With deep expertise in disclosure and reporting, ESG, sustainability, and digital engagement, our award-winning work reshapes how organisations connect with customers, investors, employees, and the wider world.

We’re part of Positive Change Group – a global platform of specialist agencies in reporting, culture and communications. We give clients access to broader expertise as priorities evolve, helping align stories and actions across stakeholder groups and guiding organisations through a world transformed by technology and social expectations.

BRR Media is a leading media production and webcasting company specialising in the creation of engaging investor communications content. 

Harnessing our in-house creative and production teams, we design and deploy creative and technical solutions for live events to facilitate in person and online engagement for financial results, AGMs and CMDs.   

Our Engage Investor platform makes it easy for companies to address the communications needs of retail and other smaller investors.

Our creative team produces corporate film and story-telling content for stakeholder audiences across a wide range of themes and use cases.

Contact us on uksales@brrmedia.co.uk or 020 3435 7010 for further information.

Computershare Investor Engagement helps companies act with clarity and confidence across the full spectrum of investor relations and governance challenges. Our ecosystem combines Investor Intelligence (near real-time ownership analytics), Investor Relations (software-enabled strategic engagement and communications via ingage), and Georgeson Advisory (activism defence, proxy solicitation and comprehensive support across corporate actions). Together, these capabilities empower Boards, IR teams and governance professionals to understand who holds influence, engage with purpose and shape outcomes. Whether preparing for M&A, navigating ESG scrutiny or building long-term trust, we provide the insight, access and expertise to protect value and drive results.

EQ RD:IR is the global investor relations provider offering a wide range of IR-related analysis, research & advisory services to strategically partner with over 600 public and private companies. From institutional & retail share register analysis to equity targeting across the globe, our tools & services help you understand who and how best to successfully drive relationships with your shareholders. Now aligned with Notified, both under the global registrar EQ, we have broadened our product set to include event management, website hosting, regulatory news distribution via GlobeNewswire & PR monitoring.

For 54 years, Extel's (formerly Institutional Investor Research) highly recognised survey-based research has produced an independent evaluation of quality across key markets and stakeholder groups – with rankings for top global sell-side research teams and corporate executives setting the industry standard, with a global presence spanning Europe, Emerging EMEA, Asia Pacific, North America and Latin America.

Extel conducts independent research surveys with global investment and sell-side professionals who evaluate and determine the best performing CEOs, CFOs, IROs and IR Programs across these regions. The survey results provide an independent performance validation of IR activities and Executives relative to specific sector and country peers based on multiple assessment criteria and metrics. The market intelligence identifies best practices and empowers greater productivity and efficiency through targeted IR team collaboration and directional guidance for C-Suite investor outreach. It also enables IR to deploy these actionable insights to optimise and improve its strategic positioning based on the direct feedback and assessment by specific stakeholder demographics and prospects.

www.extelinsights.com

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J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

www.jpmorgan.com/global

The London Stock Exchange Issuer Services platform is our digital offering, dedicated to IR teams.  We are the only Exchange to give companies the ability to customise their profile page on our website, allowing them to tell their story to investors. All issuers on our market have unlimited access to the data that we offer including global ESG data, Reuters News, global deals data (covering equity, debt and M&A) and millions of sell-side research notes.  Our clients can also access both institutional and retail investors through our webcasting platform SparkLive, distributed through LSEG Refinitiv Desktops and the London Stock Exchange website.  

Make sure that you have your log-in details by contacting us at: issuersupport@lseg.com.

MUFG Corporate Markets, a division of MUFG Pension & Market Services is a global, digitally enabled business that is committed to empowering a brighter future by connecting millions of people with their assets – safely, securely and responsibly.

Our Investor Relations experts are global leaders in shareholder analysis, equity market intelligence including perception studies and targeting, webcasting and shareholder management technology.

Supporting over 1,600 issuers worldwide, we deliver around 1,000 shareholder analyses every month, helping clients navigate shareholder engagement with confidence. Our proactive, tailored approach ensures that every investor relations programme is positioned for success in an evolving regulatory landscape.

www.mpms.mufg.com

QuantiFire helps companies build confidence in capital markets by better understanding the needs and interests of their investor communities.

We have developed systematic and wholly reimagined approaches to obtaining and analysing investor meeting interest, feedback, and perception, as data and at scale.

For investors, our service engages them as carefully targeted individuals using innovative protocols that respect their time and privacy, whilst improving user experience.

For companies, we provide light-touch solutions that leverage technology at every stage, to generate premium insights and Board-ready analytics.

www.quantifire.co.uk

Market Clarity as a Service for IR and Boards.

RMS Partners – Making Connections That Matter

RMS Partners is a specialist investor relations consultancy dedicated to helping listed companies build strong, lasting relationships with the right investors. We craft tailored investor relations strategies that align your investment case with the right investor, ensuring your story resonates in the capital markets.

Leveraging our extensive network and proprietary database, we connect clients with active, long-term investors, including private client wealth managers who oversee more than £1.2 trillion.

Our proactive approach includes arranging impactful investor roadshows – over 2,500 meetings in the last 12 months – and delivering rapid feedback to refine messaging and understand the market’s view. Serving FTSE 100, FTSE 250, AIM-listed businesses, and international companies, we provide expertise across all sectors.

At RMS Partners, we don’t just facilitate meetings – we create opportunities that help to drive demand, liquidity and growth.

www.rmspartners.com

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), the world’s foremost provider of financial information and services to the capital markets. Trusted by more than 2,500 corporate issuers, our market-leading data and expertise drive workflows across your organization so you can effectively monitor the markets, obtain, and retain shareholders, manage stock valuation, and decrease volatility — all from a trusted source dedicated to investor relations. For more information, visit Issuer Solutions | S&P Global Market Intelligence (spglobal.com).

S&P Global has been providing essential intelligence that unlocks opportunity, fosters growth, and accelerates progress for more than 160 years.