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10/2009
Thomas Rosenmayr

The future of corporate publishing.

Since the beginning of this reporting season we see a massive increase of interest for our capabilities to lead the corporate reporting process – both print and online. Being in this business for more than 10 years, this smells like the most massive mind shift in corporate reporting I have seen so far. Will this be a major trend unfolding, whats the reason for it and what is the impact for our business, were my immediate thoughts.

10/2009
Thomas Rosenmayr

Five steps to a good online annual report.

Currently corporates start preparing their upcoming annual reports. This seems a good chance to involve them into this vivid discussion on what is necessary to consider when presenting the information of your Annual Report online. Changes in company law in big countries like USA, UK or Germany direct attention on how companies present their annual reports and proxy statements on their websites. Everybody agrees that the corporate site is a major communication channel for disclosure of corporation information. But what is a convenient and appropriate way to address users? For me there are some basic rules to obey in order to get a good result.

09/2009
nexxar

Annual Report conceptualization.

There’s been a clear trend evolving over the last years: annual reports are no longer published as printed versions only. Our 2009 annual report survey finds that nearly half the companies listed in major European indices additionally provide a full-fledged HTML-version. This serves the needs of an ever growing share of their target group, which relies on the web to gather investor-relevant information.

09/2009
Thomas Rosenmayr

2009 Nexxar Online Annual Report Analysis.

The most surprising outcome this year is the continuing trend towards HTML implementation in times of financial crisis! This underpins the increasing importance of the internet for corporate reporting. It also looks as if a flight to quality in times of crisis not only happens on stock markets. Only a full implementation as HTML websites enables the use of those tools for your annual report that we are used to in our every day work with the internet.

08/2009
Thomas Rosenmayr

Radley Yeldar and SmithsRatings: Neverending story on Rankings.

I think it’s a bad human habit to rank and order everything. But obviously there is a need for this: Producers of annual reports need to reason and measure their work to justify their budgets. Perfect ingredients for intransparency and dilettantism. Worst for me are those taking an entry fee to rank a report and then celebrate the results in a broad audience to please their sponsors.

08/2009
nexxar

Survey of CSR Reports online.

For the first time we made a benchmark survey on presentation of yearly published CSR reports in Germany. Out of 30 DAX companies 26 (87%) published a CSR report 2008. Analogue to our yearly survey on online annual reports we classified into 3 main categories: PDF, JPG-show or full HTML report.

07/2009
Thomas Rosenmayr

First insights: Nexxar benchmark analysis.

In the last 4 weeks Gisi, Marco, Jürgen and I have gone through 378 corporate websites to find out the current status of online corporate reporting of big cap European and US companies. Since 2003 our survey includes companies of indices Dow Jones, EuroStoxx 50, DAX/MDAX, ATX, SMI and since 2005 FTSE 100 and AEX/AMX. Currently we are expanding this survey to include MIB, CAC and TSX. With this expansion more than 500 of the biggest companies in the world would be part of the biggest and most elaborate survey in the online corporate reporting industry.

06/2009
nexxar

Hosting: Flexibility is King!

The hosting of an online financial report is a key quality gate for the overall perception of your online reporting. Preconditions for engaging your users with your high end tools and online presentation range from simple high availability through useful analytic/statiscal tools up to complex security issues.