Clariant wins the Swiss Annual Report Rating 2018
The overall winner of the Swiss Annual Report Rating is Clariant. Liechtensteinische Landesbank came in second, followed by Implenia. Swissquote was named “Rising Star of the Year” in the Design category. Siegfried was named “Rising Star” in the Value Reporting category. A total of 230 companies were evaluated by three juries.
The winners were presented with their certificates on Thursday evening, September 27 in Zurich. The Swiss Annual Report Rating is carried out annually by the HarbourClub - Chief Communications Officers.
The Swiss Annual Report Rating includes the annual reports of all listed companies represented in the SPI. The list is supplemented with the 50 companies with the highest turnover, the 15 insurance companies with the highest premium volume and the 25 banks with the highest balance sheet total and comprises 230 companies in 2018.
This sample was evaluated by three juries in succession. Firstly, by the jury of the Institute for Banking and Finance (Value Reporting) of the University of Zurich under the direction of Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner, secondly by a design jury under the direction of Jonas Voegeli and Jiri Chmelik from the Zurich University of the Arts. Then a final jury headed by Hans-Peter Nehmer, HarbourClub board member and Head of Corporate Communications at Allianz Suisse, evaluated the 12 best annual reports - print and online - of the year selected by the preliminary juries.
Hans-Peter Nehmer: "With Clariant's integrated report, a concept has won that still has a hard time in Switzerland. Admittedly, the simultaneous communication of financial and non-financial information is challenging to implement. And yet this year's winner, Clariant, shows in exemplary fashion how a company can present its most important value drivers in a coherent manner."
The award ceremony took place at Credit Suisse's Forum St. Peter. The rating was made possible by the organization partner Linkgroup and the support of Antalis, the Apostroph Group, Credit Suisse and the EQS Group.
All detailed results and the PDFs of the evaluated reports, including previous years, are available on the platform Gbrating.ch to find.
Overall winner business reports of the final jury
1st place: Clariant
2nd place: Liechtensteinische Landesbank
3rd place: Implenia
Design category (online and print)
1st place: Hiag Real Estate
2nd place: Implenia
3rd place: Siegfried
Category Value Reporting (Online and Print)
1st place: Clariant
2nd place: Swisscom
3rd place: LafargeHolcim
Rising star of the year
Design: Swissquote
Value Reporting: Siegfried
