financial communications

Time to open up your earnings calls to bloggers

By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2009

AT HIS first press conference Monday night, US President Barack Obama made history at 8:52 pm ET by calling on blogger Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to be among only 14 reporters to ask a question.
The recognition of a blogger alongside mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg and national television [...]

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Is there a disclosure issue here?

By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008

TAKE a look at these news releases put out this week by two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies about awards they’ve received for their investor relations websites and their disclosure practices.
The first is from Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligents SA, the airline firm listed on the NYSE under the symbol GOL.
SAO PAULO, Brazil, April 1, 2008, [...]

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NIRI replaces Humphries after seven months

By Dominic Jones on February 23, 2007

By IR Web Report Staff
THE U.S. National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) has replaced its CEO Nancy Humphries after just seven months in the job and appointed veteran NIRI staffer Linda Kelleher as interim CEO.
In a statement, the NIRI board said Humphries, 57, was “leaving NIRI to pursue other interests.”

Replaced: Nancy Humphries

A former head of investor [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged BellSouth Corporation, communications, Darden Restaurants, financial communications, Investor Relations, leader, Linda Kelleher, Lou Thompson, Matthew V. Stroud, Maureen T. Wolff-Reid, Nancy Humphries, NIRI, NIRI Education Foundation, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, SEC, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Executive | Leave a response

Peter Campbell: Bull

By Dominic Jones on September 23, 2006

Peter Campbell, formerly of Alcatel SA and most recently a financial communication consultant, has joined Paris-based Bull as Director of Investor Relations.
“I am very pleased to welcome Peter Campbell and to entrust him with this important area of responsibility. His international and multi sectorial experience will be important assets for Bull,” said Philippe Lederman, Bull’s [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Alcatel SA, Alstom, Bull, business, communications, Europe, financial communications, France, GEC Alsthom PlC Ltd, India, Investor Relations, Middle East, Onsen Conseil, Paris, Peter Campbell, Philippe Lederman, SEC, University of Aston