What are the CR Reporting Awards?
Which CR reports are represented?
What’s the voting procedure?
The Voters’ Prize draw
Announcing the Winners
Contacting CorporateRegister.com
Media Enquiries
FAQs
What are the CR Reporting Awards?
The CR Reporting Awards (CRRA) are the only annual, global online CR reporting awards. The programme was developed in 2007 to identify and acknowledge the best in corporate non-financial reporting. The CR Reporting Awards are managed by CorporateRegister.com – the CR resources website and providers of the world’s largest online directory of CR & Sustainability Reports.
Which CR reports are represented?
Taking September 2007 - October 2008 as the reporting period, we invited 2,000 companies with relevant CR/Sustainability reports published during this time to participate.
To make the voting process more manageable this year we only accepted the first 120 entries. The reports are divided across 9 award categories, with some reports entered into multiple categories.
What’s the voting procedure?
Voting is open to all signed-up users of CorporateRegister.com, of which there are currently 23,500 at October 2008 (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 2009.
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 two runners-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.
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’re giving away 5 cash prizes of GBP250 and 5 cash equivalent prizes, more information here
Announcing the Winners
The award winners will be announced at an invitation only event to be held in London, Spring 2009. Contact us for more information info@corporateregister.com / +44 20 7014 3366
Information on the winners will also be posted online after the official announcement at the event.
Contacting CorporateRegister.com
If you have any questions or require further information about the CR Reporting Awards or CorporateRegister.com, please email us at info@corporateregister.com or call us on +44 (0)20 7014 3366.
Media Enquiries
Please read the official press release here.
FAQs
Q) What are the CRRA?
A) They’re the world’s only annual, global online CR reporting awards. The programme was developed in 2007 to identify and acknowledge the best in corporate non-financial reporting.
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 18,500 reports across 109 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 2007 and October 2008 (and profiled on CorporateRegister.com) were invited to enter. To make this year’s voting more manageable, only the first 120 were accepted for entry, and the list was then closed.
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 two runners-up.
Q) What’s the voting period and how does voting take place?
A) Voting takes place online between October 2008 and January 2009. Voters’ choices are saved online for them to revisit, amend and refine right up until the deadline of January 20 2009. Voters can choose up to five reports per Award.
Q) Who’s entitled to vote?
A) All 23,500 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) What about last year’s awards?
The CRRA 2007 were the very first global, independent and online awards for CR reporting. You can see last year’s winners here. We also produced a report detailing voting patterns, the winners and general reporting trends – access this PDF from the ‘related downloads’ section available from the menu at the bottom of the page when logged in.
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