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By IR Web Report on September 23, 2009
PEOPLE like me have been promoting online annual report best practices for almost a decade now, but the message mostly isn’t getting through. According to the 2009 Nexxar online annual report survey, there has been a modest improvement in the number of companies that are providing at least some of their reports’ content in formats [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, Investor Relations, online annual reports, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., Tim Herrod, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability
By IR Web Report on July 28, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is slated to consider publishing long-awaited new guidance governing how companies can use their websites to communicate with investors. According to a notice, the commission will meet Wednesday to consider publishing the “interpretive release” that is expected to address a number of important issues that could set precedents [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, corporate websites, disclosure, disclosure documents, Investor Relations, IR websites, online annual reports, plain language, proxy statements, quarterly reports, regulation fd, SEC, securities and exchange commission, usability requirements, web technology
By IR Web Report on June 3, 2008
THE online annual reporting period in Europe and North America is drawing to a close — and except for an elite group of forward-thinking companies it has been a disappointing season. This was the first year where many companies had the option of delivering their reports on the web as the default option. This was [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, corporate reporting, disclosure, e-proxy, electronic delivery, online annual reports, proxy statements, securities and exchange commission, usability
By IR Web Report on May 12, 2008
IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox. Firm name: zu.com communications inc. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, content management systems, disclosure, e-proxy, enerflex, feeds, Flash, GRI, Internet, Investor Relations, IR websites, isotechnika, national investor relations institute, online annual reports, online communications, Online Investor Relations, opti canada inc, Ryan Lejbak, social media, stakeholder communications, technology, Tony Zuck, TransCanada
By IR Web Report on April 14, 2008
AS CORPORATE reporting moves increasingly to the web, annual report designers are learning that it’s incredibly difficult to create attention-grabbing online communications. We often see their feeble attempts in the form of online annual report splash pages, covers or homepages. If you’re lucky there’s some dancing text and flashing video, but most often even these [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, Flash, Investor Relations, online annual reports, online communications, pepsico, shareholder communications, shareholder relations, westpac, wienerberger
By IR Web Report on October 13, 2006
There are 7 items… SEC Delays Access Hearing | CEO Confidence Declines, The Conference Board Reports | Jasdaq, Nasdaq consider alliance | Price war erupts as Bank of America offers free online stock trades | Multimedia on IR Websites | Online Annual Reports – of Spinach and Popeye | Business change to lure Muslim investors [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged IR websites, nasdaq, online annual reports, online brokerage industry, Ontario, SEC, securities, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, yahoo
By IR Web Report on October 3, 2006
By Dominic Jones TELLABS Inc.’s vice president of corporate communications makes a spirited defense of printed annual reports in a cover story for the National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI) September 2006 newsletter. George Stenitzer, an experienced annual report producer and a noted speaker and expert on the topic, cites statistics from surveys with his company’s [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, CIRI, communications, corporate communications, Investor Relations, national investor relations institute, new york stock exchange, NIRI, online annual report, online annual reports, PDF, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, TELLABS Inc., usability, web log analysis
By IR Web Report on September 27, 2005
NETHERLANDS-based Philips Electronics has an unhealthy disrespect for its shareholders. Despite participating in an academic study showing that the majority of its investors prefer HTML annual reports, the company has posted its most recent report in a 219-page PDF blob. The company’s actions raise questions about its intentions and the transparency of its reporting. Doubt [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, financial statements, Investor Relations, Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, online annual reports, PDF, Philips, Remco Steenbergen, S&P 100
By IR Web Report on February 19, 2002
REVIEWING financial statements lies at the heart of investment research. It’s what investors do most often when keeping track of the companies they follow or own. So when it comes to choosing places to invest your IR website dollars, annual and quarterly financial statements are a high value target. Well designed, highly usable financial statements [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged financial reporting, financial statements, footnotes, Investor Relations, online annual reports, poor usability, user experience
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