Bilanz awards Straumann the prize for the best annual report

 The overall winner of this year's annual report rating by the business magazine Bilanz is Straumann. Novartis follows in second place, with SBB in third. The award for best design went to Valora, with SBB in second place ahead of Migros. The winners in the Value Reporting category were UBS, ahead of Roche and Thurgauer Kantonalbank. Bilanz has published an annual ranking of the best Swiss annual reports since 1988. This year, at the suggestion of the Harbour Club, the rating of the design and value reporting jury was supplemented for the first time by an additional jury for the overall ranking. The idea behind this was that the best annual reports should not be determined by arithmetic, but by a panel of experts on the basis of overall impression.
The awards were presented by Pierre-André Schmitt, member of the Bilanz editorial board. The three best annual reports in the overall ranking were honored by Gaby Tschofen, Head of Communications at Barry Callebaut, Anne-Marie Nega-Ledermann, publicist, and Philipp Hallauer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KPMG. The award ceremony in the auditorium of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (HWZ) was organized by the HarbourClub, an association of 50 heads of communications from Swiss companies.
The three best annual reports of the overall jury:
1st rank Straumann
2nd rank Novartis
3rd rank SBB
The top ten in the design category:
1st rank Valora
2nd rank SBB
3rd rank Migros
4th rank Jelmoli
6th rank Bank Coop
7th place Bobst Group
7th rank Bühler
9th place Tamedia 4th place Schindler
10th rank EOS
The top ten in the Value Reporting category:
1st rank UBS
2nd rank Roche
3rd place Thurgauer Kantonalbank
4th place Zürcher Kantonalbank
5th rank Swiss Re
6th rank Novartis
7th rank Syngenta
8th place Ciba SC
9th place Xstrata (Switzerland)
10th rank Straumann