GE Gets the Most Nominations for Leading IR - But Who Will Win?
Nominees announced for the IR Magazine US Awards 2010
NEW YORK, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The nominees for this year's IR Magazine US Awards have just been announced. GE received the most nominations of any company, being named in five categories including the grand prix for best overall investor relations by a mega-cap company. Life Time Fitness, Chesapeake Energy and JPMorgan Chase & Co were named in four categories each. But there's still everything left to play for: the IR world will have to wait to see who will walk away with the prizes on the night.
The winners will be announced at a gala event at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. A full list of this year's award nominees and a list of the sector leaders are available below, or on our website at www.irmagazineus.com.
An independent survey of investors elects the best performers of investor relations in categories such as best crisis communications, best IR by a chairman/CEO and best IR by a continental European company in the US market. Erdos & Morgan used databases from Thomson Reuters and Ipreo to invite the full universe of US investment professionals to participate in an online survey between December 2009 and January 2010. For best communications with the retail market, Barron's Online subscribers and BetterInvesting members completed a separate online survey. In total, 1,948 investment professionals and 1,866 retail investors voted. The complete results of the survey will be published in IR magazine's Investor Perception Study, US 2010.
The event will be hosted in association with Barron's and is co-sponsored by American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, BNY Mellon Depositary Receipts, BNY Mellon Shareowner Services, Business Wire, Chorus Call, Deutsche Bank ADR Group, Financial Times, GE, Georgeson, Innisfree M&A Incorporated, IPG, Ipreo, Kreab Gavin Anderson, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, MacKenzie Partners, Marketwire, NASDAQ OMX, National Investor Relations Institute, NYSE Euronext, PR Newswire, and Wells Fargo Shareowner Services.
The IR magazine investor perception studies together make up the world's largest survey of this kind, each year canvassing over 5,000 analysts and investors around the world and identifying award winners in seven different countries or regions. For more information on these studies, please contact Katy Littlewood at the number at the bottom of this release.
About Cross Border Ltd and IR magazine
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Katy Littlewood | |
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Full list of nominees | |
(Alphabetical order – winners to be announced March 24) | |
Grand prix for best overall investor relations – small cap | |
Amtrust Financial Services | |
Continental Airlines | |
Life Time Fitness | |
WMS Industries | |
Grand prix for best overall investor relations – mid-cap | |
Citrix Systems | |
Covance | |
Humana | |
Limited Brands | |
Grand prix for best overall investor relations – large cap | |
Chesapeake Energy | |
Covidien | |
Express Scripts | |
Metlife | |
Grand prix for best overall investor relations – mega-cap | |
Bank of America | |
GE | |
Goldman Sachs Group | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co | |
Best investor relations officer – small cap | |
Ellen Taylor – Amtrust Financial Services | |
DeAnne Gabel – Continental Airlines | |
Ken Cooper – Life Time Fitness | |
Best investor relations officer – mid-cap | |
Eduardo Fleites – Citrix Systems | |
Paul Surdez – Covance | |
Amie Preston – Limited Brands | |
Best investor relations officer – large cap | |
Cole Lannum – Covidien | |
David Myers – Express Scripts | |
William Callihan – The PNC Financial Services Group | |
Best investor relations officer – mega-cap | |
Lee McEntire & Kevin Stitt – Bank of America | |
Julia Bates & Patrick Barrett – JPMorgan Chase & Co | |
Valerie Haertel – Medco Health Solutions | |
Ron Slaymaker and team – Texas Instruments | |
Best communications with the retail market | |
Aflac | |
Berkshire Hathaway | |
ExxonMobil | |
GE | |
Best annual report – small to large cap | |
Gen-Probe | |
ProAssurance | |
Southwest Airlines | |
Best crisis communications – small to large cap | |
Continental Airlines | |
First Horizon National | |
Life Time Fitness | |
ProLogis | |
Best investor relations by a chairman or CEO – small to large cap | |
Michael Mussallem – Edwards Lifesciences | |
Mickey Drexler – J Crew Group | |
Dave DeWalt – McAfee | |
Marc Benioff – Salesforce.com | |
Glen Senk – Urban Outfitters | |
Best corporate governance | |
Berkshire Hathaway | |
ExxonMobil | |
Goldman Sachs Group | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co | |
Best investor relations website | |
Chesapeake Energy | |
Gap | |
GE | |
Limited Brands | |
Range Resources | |
Most progress in investor relations | |
Amtrust Financial Services | |
Cardinal Health | |
Jack in the Box | |
Microsoft | |
Oracle | |
Best use of conferencing | |
Chesapeake Energy | |
Gen-Probe | |
Best corporate advertising | |
GE | |
IBM | |
Intel | |
Verizon Communications | |
Best M&A investor relations | |
Express Scripts and WellPoint | |
Cadbury and Kraft Foods | |
Merck and Schering-Plough | |
Best IR by a continental European company in the US market | |
ABB | |
Anheuser-Busch InBev | |
Nestle | |
SAP | |
Best IR by an Asia-Pacific company in the US market | |
BHP Billiton | |
Galaxy Entertainment Group | |
Infosys Technologies | |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company | |
Sector leaders | |
Consumer discretionary | |
Life Time Fitness | |
Consumer staples | |
Kellogg Company | |
Diversified | |
GE | |
Energy | |
Chesapeake Energy | |
Financials | |
JPMorgan Chase & Co | |
Healthcare | |
Covance | |
Industrials | |
FedEx | |
Materials | |
Ecolab | |
Telecommunication services | |
AT&T | |
Technology | |
Cisco | |
Utilities | |
Northeast Utilities | |
SOURCE IR magazine
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