CorporateRegister.com - New CorporateRegister.com Report analyses Global Trends and Winners in CR Reporting

Store this angel in big sizeLondon 2nd April 2009 – Following the CR Reporting Awards ’08 (CRRA ’08), CorporateRegister.com has now appear a address that summarises and interprets all-around CR (corporate responsibility) advertisement statistics and comes to some absorbing conclusions. Global Winners & Reporting Trends aswell provides added data about the winners of the CRRA ’08. The address is accessible chargeless of allegation at www.corporateregister.com/pdf/CRRA08.pdf.

CorporateRegister.com’s statistics appearance that the world’s better companies are advice added - the abundance and above of CR advertisement continues to develop. Two thirds of the Global FT 500 are bearing CR reports. Corporate Responsibility advertisement has acutely become an important aspect of business advice by the world’s arch companies, with over 3,200 letters appear during 2008.

However, in the bosom of a all-around recession it’s absurd to adumbrate if and how this trend will continue. With accumulated budgets beneath accretion pressure, it’s acceptable that abounding stand-alone CR letters will become chip with Annual Reports & Accounts – a cost-saving trend that may
actually advance to bigger reports, added on-line advertisement and beneath printed reports.

CorporateRegister.com’s allegation were presented during a daytime programme of CR debates captivated on Friday, 27th March 2009 at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. The accident was abounding by assembly of arch UK and all-embracing companies, as able-bodied as key stakeholders from the acceptable finance, authoritative and NGO communities.

The winners of the additional CR Reporting Awards 2008 (CRRA ‘08) were appear on the aforementioned day, and presented by Richard Howitt MEP. The CR Reporting Awards are the alone annual, all-around awards for Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting. They analyze and accede the best CR letters above nine categories, 5 of which are for specific ‘transparency aspects’ such as carbon disclosure. Details can be begin at www.corporateregister.com/crra/.

The winners of this year’s CR Reporting Awards are:

•Best Overall Report - Vodafone Group
•Best 1st Time Report - Virgin Media
•Best SME Report - Ecologic Designs Inc
•Best chip address - Novo Nordisk A/S
•Best Carbon Disclosure - Royal Dutch Shell plc
•Creativity in Communications - Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc
•Relevance & Materiality - Vodafone Group plc
•Openness & Honesty - Co-operative Group Limited
•Credibility through Assurance - Vodafone Group plc

The CR Reporting Awards are managed by CorporateRegister.com, the CR assets website and providers of the world’s better online agenda of CR Reports. Over 2,000 companies with CR letters appear amid September 2007 and September 2008were arrive to enter. To accomplish this year’s voting added manageable, access to assertive categories was limited.

All 26,000 registered users of CorporateRegister.com were advantaged to vote, and voting took abode online amid October 2008 and January 2009.

CorporateRegister.com’s Managing Director Paul Scott said: “For the additional year, the bags of votes entered for the CR Reporting Awards accept approved the all-around absorption in accumulated albatross reporting. There is drive abaft CR reporting. In the bosom of the accepted bread-and-butter anguish this reflects a altitude of optimism and hope.”

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Notes to editors

About the CR Reporting Awards
Organised by CorporateRegister.com, the CR Reporting Awards are the world’s alone annual, all-around online CR advertisement awards. The programme was developed in August 2007 to analyze and accede the best in accumulated non-financial reporting. The CRRA 2007 were the actual aboriginal global, absolute and online awards for CR reporting.

CorporateRegister.com arrive 2,000 companies with accordant CR/Sustainability letters (published amid September 2007 and September 2008) to participate. The amount of entries was bound to accomplish anticipation added acquiescent for the online voters.

Voting took abode online amid 22nd October 2008 and 30th January 2009. All 26,000 registered users of CorporateRegister.com were advantaged to vote. Each aborigine could accept up to 5 letters per Award. Voters’ choices were adored online for them to revisit, alter and clarify appropriate up until the borderline of 30th January 2009. CorporateRegister.com has taken all-encompassing measures to ensure the candor of the voting process. This includes blockage new registrations adjoin a amount of tests, and tagging registered users with their IP addresses. Additionally, any apprehensive aborigine patterns were advised and these votes were not included in the final count. There are nine categories, with one champ and two runners-up for anniversary category.

The CR Reporting Awards 2008 were sponsored by Bureau Veritas, Responsible Investor, Park, Carbon Smart, Environmental Finance, TBLI, Sustainable Business and AccountAbility.

About CorporateRegister.com
Founded in 1998, CorporateRegister.com is the all-around CR assets website and the world’s absolute agenda of accumulated non-financial reporting, profiling 21,000 letters above 116 countries (status March 2009). Around 3,500 CR (Corporate Responsibility) letters will be appear during 2009 and added to the accepted 21,000 letters profiled chargeless and online on www.CorporateRegister.com. Used by 26,000 advertisement stakeholders worldwide, the website aswell provides registers for some of the a lot of cogent organisations in the accumulated albatross field, including AccountAbility and the UN Global Compact. Access to CorporateRegister.com is chargeless of charge.

Contacts
For added information, amuse acquaintance Paul Scott or Iain McGhee, tel. +44 (0)20 7014 33 66, email: info@corporateregister.com.