Winners of CR Reporting Awards announced

(3BL Media / theCSRfeed) London - 24^th March 2011 - The winners of the CR Reporting Awards 2011 (CRRA ‘11) have been announced at an invitation-only awards ceremony on Thursday, 24 March 2011, at the Royal Society in London. Details can be found at http://www.corporateregister.com/crra/.

Now in their fourth year, the CR Reporting Awards are the only annual, global awards for Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting. They identify and acknowledge the best CR reports across nine categories.   The CRRA’11 solicited reports published between September 2009 and September 2010. Due to the high level of interest in the Awards, the number of entries in each category was capped. This year, 90 leading reporting companies, from well-known multinationals to local SMEs, entered their reports across nine categories. This year’s winners are:   ·         Best report – Hewlett-Packard Company (United States) ·         Best first time report– Virgin Group Ltd (United Kingdom) ·         Best SME report – Pacific Hydro Pty Limited (Australia) ·         Best Integrated report – Natura Cosméticos SA (Brazil) ·         Best Carbon Disclosure – Vodafone Group plc (United Kingdom) ·         Creativity in Communications – Virgin Group Ltd (United Kingdom) ·         Relevance & Materiality – SABMiller plc (United Kingdom) ·         Openness & Honesty – Novo Nordisk A/S (Denmark) ·         Credibility through Assurance – Co-operative Group Limited (United Kingdom)   CorporateRegister.com’s Paul Scott said: “We’ve seen CR reporting increase every year, with 2010 showing the strongest performance yet – nearly 5,000 reports worldwide. With so many companies reporting, we need a process to identify the reports which lead where others will follow. The CRRA provides this process, and once again we have a suite of worthy winners”.   As a companion to this year’s awards ceremony CorporateRegister.com is hosting two online debates. Leading CR experts will set out the opposing sides of two hot CR reporting topics, and the public is invited to participate in an ongoing debate. You can view the debates and join in the discussion at http://www.corporateregister.com/blog/.   A comprehensive CRRA’11 report is freely available from CorporateRegister.com for registered site users as a pdf download at www.CorporateRegister.com. New users can sign-up for free at www.corporateregsiter.com 
  Contacts For further information, please contact:

• Anna Mason, Communications and Partnerships Manager, CorporateRegister.com, email: anna@corporateregister.com

• Paul Scott, Managing Director, CorporateRegister.com, tel. +44 (0)20 7014 33 66, email: info@corporateregister.com

  Notes to editors   CR Reporting Awards 2011 - The Winners and Runners-up   Best report Winner: Hewlett-Packard Company 1^st Runner-up: Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc 2^nd Runner-up: Bayer AG   Best first time report Winner: Virgin Group Ltd 1^st Runner-up: McGraw Hill Companies Inc 2^nd Runner-up: Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co   Best SME report Winner: Pacific Hydro Pty Limited 1^st Runner-up: ArcelorMittal India Ltd 2^nd Runner-up: Lipor   Best Integrated report Winner: Natura Cosméticos SA 1^st Runner-up: SolarWorld AG 2^nd Runner-up: AXA SA   Best Carbon Disclosure Winner: Vodafone Group plc 1^st Runner-up: General Electric Company 2^nd Runner-up: Banco Bradesco SA   Creativity in Communications Winner: Virgin Group Ltd 1^st Runner-up: The Coca-Cola Company 2^nd Runner-up: Hewlett-Packard Company   Relevance & Materiality Winner: SABMiller plc 1^st Runner-up: L'Oréal SA 2^nd Runner-up: Novo Nordisk A/S   Openness & Honesty Winner: Novo Nordisk A/S 1^st Runner-up: Co-operative Group Limited 2^nd Runner-up: Microsoft Corporation   Credibility through Assurance Winner: Co-operative Group Limited (assured by Two Tomorrows) 1^st Runner-up: General Electric Company 2^nd Runner-up: Royal Dutch Shell plc   About the CR Reporting Awards 2011 Organised by CorporateRegister.com, the CR Reporting Awards are the world’s only independent global annual awards for corporate responsibility reporting. The awards were launched in August 2007 to identify and acknowledge the best in corporate non-financial reporting.   CorporateRegister.com invited all companies with relevant CR/Sustainability reports to participate. There are nine categories, with one winner and two runners-up for each category.   Voting took place online between 28 October 2010 and 28 January 2011. All registered users of CorporateRegister.com were entitled to vote. Each voter could choose up to five reports per Award. Voters’ choices were saved online for them to revisit, amend and refine right up until the deadline.   CorporateRegister.com takes extensive measures to ensure the integrity of the voting process. For example, employees of participating companies are not allowed to vote for their own report. This helps to maintain the CRRA’s position as the world’s most independent and authoritative reporting awards programme.   About CorporateRegister.com

Founded in 1998, CorporateRegister.com is the global CR resources website and hosts the world’s most comprehensive directory of corporate non-financial reporting, profiling 31,000 reports across 161 countries.Around 5,000 CR (Corporate Responsibility) reports are published annually and added to the current 31,000 reports profiled free and online on www.CorporateRegister.com. Used by over 35,000 reporting stakeholders worldwide, the website also provides registers for some of the most significant organisations in the corporate responsibility field, including AccountAbility and the UN Global Compact. Access to CorporateRegister.com is free of charge.

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