Sika wins Swiss Annual Report Rating 2022
The overall winner of the Swiss Annual Report Rating is Sika. In second place is Holcim and in third place Valora. The winner in the Value Reporting category is also Sika. The winner in the Design category is Hiag.
On September 22, the winner of the Annual Report Rating 2022 was chosen in Zurich. The building materials manufacturer Sika emerged as the overall winner. A total of 238 companies were evaluated by four juries. The special "Text" prize was also awarded for the third time. The award went to Phoenix Mecano's annual report.
Annual reports of the largest companies evaluated
Jury president Hans-Peter Nehmer presented the winners with their certificates during the ceremony. For the first time, a newly created trophy was also presented to the overall winner. The Swiss Annual Report Rating is conducted annually by HarbourClub - Chief Communications Officers. Around 200 participants took part in the event.
The Swiss Annual Report Rating includes the annual reports of all listed companies represented in the SPI. The list is completed with the companies of 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 238 companies in 2022. This sample was evaluated successively by three juries. First, by the Value Reporting Jury of the Institute for Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich, headed by Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner; second, by a Design Jury under the patronage of the ZHDK and headed by Jiri Chmelik Noir Associates. Then a final jury headed by Hans-Peter Nehmer, President of HarbourClub and Head of Corporate Communications at Allianz Suisse, judged the twelve best annual reports - print and online - selected by the preliminary juries.
Sika: A winner from "nowhere
This year's overall winner literally comes out of nowhere. In the last ten years, with one exception in 2014, Sika has never made it into the illustrious circle of the twelve best annual reports that the final jury had to review. But the analysis of the results in the two categories Value Reporting and Design reveals it clearly. Sika has improved its ranking in Value Reporting by 20 ranks and takes first place in this category with its 2021 report. The improvement in rank is even more evident in the Design category. Here Sika was able to gain more than 50 places compared to the previous year.
Sustainability reporting is getting more and more space
Hans-Peter Nehmer: "At Sika, as with many of the best annual reports, sustainability reporting has developed into key content in corporate publishing. Our final jury recognized striking improvements in the 2022 annual reports. More and more companies are making the leap to a new communication approach - from abstract, defensive "justification communication" to credible, holistic and thus effective sustainability reporting."
The rating was made possible by the organization partner Linkgroup and the support of Antalis, Apostroph Group, PwC and SIX.
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