What are the CR Reporting Awards?

The CR Reporting Awards 2007 are the first online CR reporting awards. Global and independent, the CRRA 2007 are the first of an annual programme developed to identify and acknowledge the best in corporate non-financial reporting. The CR Reporting Awards are managed by CorporateRegister.com - the world’s largest online directory of CR & Sustainability Reports.

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Which CR reports are represented?

Taking the period September 2006 - September 2007 as the reporting period, we invited 2,000 companies with relevant CR/Sustainability reports published during this time to participate.

Each entrant chose a maximum of two of the 'transparency aspects' awards categories, according to what they considered to be the strengths of their report.

After an overwhelming response we decided to limit entries to the first 300 for this year. The 300 reports featured are sourced from 39 different business sectors across 40 countries.

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What’s the voting procedure?

Voting is open to all signed-up users of CorporateRegister.com (sign-up is free of charge). Each user is limited to a single set of votes. We have a series of measures in place to ensure the integrity of our voting procedures (including IP checks) - any votes which appear not to be genuine will be discounted.

Voters who are employees of reporting companies entered for the CRRA may not vote for their own companies. We cannot allow the overall results to be manipulated by large numbers of company employees all 'voting' for their own reports. We will discount any such votes - they will not count towards the final CRRA results.

There are nine individual Awards. Voters can view the entries for each Award, and select up to five choices (first choice, second choice etc). Voters can review their choices, change their minds, and review further reports as many times as they wish. The final vote is taken automatically on the closing date - 20th January 2008.

Voters have up to five choices for each Award, but they don’t need to use all of them. However, each choice counts towards the final winner, of which there will be one for each Award, with one runner-up.

Your current voting options are linked to your CorporateRegister.com user account allowing you to exit the site, and then sign back in again at any point to pick up where you left off.

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The Voters’ Prize draw

It’s important to have at least a first choice for each Award, as this qualifies voters for a Voters’ Prize draw. We’ve giving away £5,000 in cash prizes, more information here

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Announcing the Winners

The award winners will be announced at a combined CSR Reporting Event & Gala Evening in Berlin, 3-4th March 2008. Register online to be part of this ground breaking event.

Information on the winners will also be posted online after the official announcement at the event.

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Contacting CorporateRegister.com

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Media Enquiries

Please read the official press release here

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FAQs

Q) Who are we?
A) CorporateRegister.com Limited developed and hosts the CRRA. CorporateRegister.com is the global CR resources website, which incorporates the world’s most comprehensive online database of corporate non-financial reports, profiling 15,000 reports across 93 countries. Access to CorporateRegister.com is free of charge.

Q) How were the CRRA entries chosen?
A) Over 2,000 companies with reports published between September 2006 and September 2007 (and profiled on CorporateRegister.com) were invited to enter on August 23 2007. The first 300 were accepted for entry, and the list was then closed. These reports represent 39 business sectors across 40 countries.

Q) What are the Awards categories?
A) There are a total of nine awards, five of which are for specific ‘transparency aspects’ such as carbon disclosure.

Q) How many winners for each Award?
A) There will be one winner for each of the nine Awards, together with one runner-up.

Q) What’s the voting period and how does voting take place?
A) Voting takes place online between September 2007 and January 2008. Voters’ choices are saved online for them to revisit, amend and refine right up until the deadline of January 20 2008.Voters can choose up to five reports per Award.

Q) Who’s entitled to vote?
A) All 18,500 registered users of CorporateRegister.com are entitled to vote. It’s free to become a registered user, and takes less than two minutes: sign up here

Q) How do you ensure voters don’t vote more than once, and that all voters are genuine?
A) CorporateRegister.com has taken extensive measures to ensure the integrity of the voting process. This includes checking new registrations against a number of tests, and tagging registered users with their IP addresses. Additionally, any suspicious voter patterns will be investigated and these votes may not be included in the final count.

Q) Can I vote for my own company?
A) Voters who are employees of reporting companies entered for the CRRA may not vote for their own companies. We cannot allow the overall results to be manipulated by large numbers of company employees all 'voting' for their own reports. We will discount any such votes - they will not count towards the final CRRA results.

Q) Any voting incentives?
A) There is a Voters’ Prize draw, for which we’ll be giving away a total of £5,000. To qualify for this draw, voters need to indicate their first choice across all nine Awards. Their reporting awards overview shows when this has been done. The draw will include all those whose first choices match the actual winners.

Q) When will the winners be announced?
A) We are co-organising the CR Reporting Summit in Berlin, 3-4th March 2008. There will be a gala evening on the first day of this conference, which will focus on the CRRA. Information on the winners will also be posted online after the gala evening.

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