The IR Society Best Practice Awards
22 November 2022. The Landmark, 222 Marylebone Road, NW1 6JQ
Promoting best practice for 22 years
Now in their 22nd year, the IR Society Best Practice Awards offer a truly meaningful opportunity to showcase best practice in investor communications. Each award category covers companies from the largest to the smallest - across the UK, Europe and internationally - in recognition of the diverse range of listed businesses looking to the UK for excellence in IR.
The real value of this awards programme is that it allows the IR Society to feed back to the IR community what great looks like in terms of how companies are communicating with their stakeholders. All of the details about the awards and how to enter can be found on this website - we look forward to receiving all of the entries!
The closing date for the 2022 self-entry awards is 30 August with the winners announced at the awards dinner on 22 November taking place at The Landmark, 222 Marylebone Road, NW1 6JQ.
The 2021 Best Practice Awards Annual Dinner was a sell out event held at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London on Tuesday 23 November 2021. Congratulations to all of the winners, and to all of the companies who made the shortlists - this is a fantastic achievement in it’s own right.
You can view all of the winners on the awards pages above, and view the photo gallery from the event here.
2022 Awards Overview Webinar
Fundamentally, investors want honesty in corporate reporting, and in this very difficult year, more than ever that's what people will want, will respect and will be looking for.
Companies should be entering these awards. If you're not already proud of your reporting, well, improve it so you are. If you are already proud of your reporting, then of course, you should be entering
Paul Lee
Chair of the Judging Panel
Our sponsors
As always, we would like to thank our sponsors and suppporters, without whom so many of our activities would not be possible.
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Q4 Inc. (Q4) is a leading capital markets communications platform that is transforming the way publicly traded companies, investors and investment banks make decisions to efficiently discover, communicate and engage with each other. The Q4 end-to-end technology platform facilitates interactions across the capital markets through its IR website
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For over 50 years, Institutional Investor has consistently distinguished itself with its ground-breaking journalism and incisive market analysis that provides must-read intelligence for global financial institutions and money makers. Our highly recognized survey based research produces 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. Institutional Investor’s most recent acquisition of Extel, expanded our research portfolio further to produce an advisory service which includes IR perception insights, market trends and data analytics. Covering key topics such as MiFID, SRI and Corporate Access, we evolve with our clients, providing objectivity and transparency, show casing best practice and delivering relative performance assessments for companies by sector and region. Over 30,000 global investment professionals contribute regularly across our 6 regional research studies and share their unbiased and candid views to enable effective decision making and better resource allocation.
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Orient Capital, a Link Group company, is a global leader in share ownership analysis and identification, market intelligence, investor communication and shareholder management technology, supporting over 1,800 issuers worldwide. We help listed companies identify and track their shareholders and underlying beneficial owners, as well as their behaviours. Turning quality analysis into valuable, up-to-date insights, enabling engagement with investors and stakeholders, with confidence.
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We have circa 115 retained corporate clients and we were involved in transactions raising more than £1bn in equity capital markets in 2021.
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