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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.

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.