Swiss Annual Report Rating: Geberit wins again
As in the previous year, the overall winner of the Swiss Annual Report Rating is Geberit. In second place is St. Galler Kantonalbank, followed by VP Bank from Liechtenstein. The climber of the year in the Design category is Vaudoise. The climber in the Value Reporting category is Aluflexpack.
Four juries evaluated a total of 238 companies for the Swiss Annual Report Rating. On September 21, the winners received their certificates from jury president Hans-Peter Nehmer at SIX in Zurich. The Swiss Annual Report Rating is conducted annually by HarbourClub - Chief Communications Officers. Around 170 participants took part in the event. The rating was made possible by the organizing partner Linkgroup and the support of Antalis, Apostroph Group, PwC and SIX.
Annual reports of the largest Swiss companies
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 2020.
This sample was evaluated successively by three juries. First, by the Value Reporting jury of the Institute for Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, headed by Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Wagner; second, by a Design jury headed by Jonas Voegeli and Jiri Chmelik of the Zurich University of the Arts. Then, a final jury led by Hans-Peter Nehmer, President of HarbourClub and Head of Corporate Communications at Allianz Suisse, judged the twelve best annual reports - print and online - of the 2020 vintage selected by the preliminary juries.
Annual Report Rating 2020: "An exceptional vintage".
In the words of jury president Hans-Peter Nehmer, the 2020 vintage that was judged was certainly exceptional, even for annual reports, because of the pandemic. "How companies deal with and report on the challenges this poses says a lot about their willingness to communicate transparently. Especially in times of crisis, trust can be gained through open and authentic reporting. Some of the companies evaluated have handled this in an exemplary manner."
The rankings
Overall winner business reports of the final jury
Place 1: Geberit
2nd place: St. Galler Kantonalbank
Rank 3: VP Bank
Design category (online and print)
Place 1: Hiag Real Estate
Place 2: Zur Rose
3rd place: Bachem
Category Value Reporting (Online and Print)
Rank 1: UBS
2nd place: Clariant
3rd place: Swisscom
Rising star of the year
Design: Vaudoise
Value Reporting: Aluflexpack
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