Best Practice Awards 2024 - The IR Society Celebrates Best in Class IR at The Royal Lancaster

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At Tuesday night’s annual Investor Relations Society Best Practice Awards dinner at the Royal Lancaster, London, the IR Society celebrated the achievements of those companies demonstrating their commitment to delivering best-in-class investor and stakeholder communications.

This flagship event in the IR calendar was hosted by the comedian Lucy Porter and saw around 500 IR professionals gathered together.

Our Best Practice Awards are presented across five categories in the self-entry section, with the winners determined by a judging panel of experienced professionals, led by Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship & Sustainable Investment Strategy at Redington. In addition, there are four categories in the voted section, which is run in partnership with Extel and solicits the views of the buy-side and sell-side.

We awarded 16 trophies to companies across the self-entry categories for their outstanding work in investor relations, and highly commended a further 6 companies that had demonstrated significant progress in their communications.

For the voted awards, the nominations across the Small-, Mid- and Large-cap categories included 205 companies and 143 IROs, of which 7 were newcomers to the industry. The ‘Best Investor Engagement’ award included 91 buy-side company nominations.

Congratulations to all our 2024 winners. Access a full list of the winners and visit the Best Practice Awards Website for photos of the winners on each awards page here.

Laura Hayter, CEO of the IR Society, said:

“The IR Society Best Practice Awards offer a truly meaningful opportunity to showcase excellence in investor relations. The real value of this awards programme, now in its 24th year, is that it allows the IR Society to feed back to the IR community what great looks like in terms of how companies are communicating with their stakeholders. Thank you to all those who put their work forward for an award. Those companies shortlisted for Tuesday’s awards have all demonstrated excellence in IR, and the calibre and quality of their entries was again very high across the board. Many congratulations to all of our winners, who demonstrated best in class investor relations in their respective categories.”

Paul Lee, Chair of the Judging Panel, said:

"Some of the most positive entries we saw this year were situations where companies faced real business needs and the IR team rose to the challenge of addressing those challenges - or playing their part in addressing the challenges. It is great to see the energy and vibrancy of the UK's IR professionals on display and celebrated through these awards."

About the Best Practice Awards

Now in their 24th year, the self-entry awards are open to all companies that wish to demonstrate their commitment to leading investor communications. Entries are scored against criteria based on the IR Society’s guidelines for best practice in investor relations. We also ask companies to complete a Q&A-style entry form to support their entry. This gives companies an opportunity to share their approach to the award and to highlight what works for them and their audience. Having completed the scoring on both a quantitative and qualitative basis, with expert input from independent third parties, the shortlists are submitted to a panel of judges. This year’s judging panel of experts included participants from the investor relations profession, investment banks, asset managers, accountancy firms and other professional bodies. The judging of all categories is overseen by a Chair from the investment community. The winners were chosen from the shortlisted entries for each category.

2024 Judging Panel:

• Paul Lee, Redington – Chair of Judging Panel
• James Ashton, Quoted Companies Alliance
• Emma Burdett, H/Advisors Maitland
• Yasmine Chahed, Alliance Manchester Business School
• John Dawson, Independent
• Andy Griffiths, The Investor Forum
• Anna Hartropp, Anna Hartropp Ltd
• Abigail Herron, Aviva Investors
• Tom Hinton, Citi
• Elly Irving, Lazard Asset Management
• Ken Lee, Loughborough Business School
• Al Loehnis, Equitory
• Sallie Pilot, The Investor Forum
• Sue Scholes, Former Chair, IR Society
• Caroline Stockmann, Independent
• Sachi Suzuki, HSBC Asset Management
• Peter Swabey, The Chartered Governance Institute
• Jimmy Tillotson, Redwheel
• Steven Young, Lancaster University Management School

For further information contact:

The Investor Relations Society

Laura Hayter, CEO                                                              Tel: 020 3978 1980
Robert Dann, Head of Operations and Marketing               Tel: 020 3978 1980

Notes for editors:

The Investor Relations Society

The Investor Relations Society (IR Society) is a membership organisation that exists to promote best practice investor relations in the UK and beyond. It is run by IR professionals for IR professionals.
Established in 1980, the IR Society’s mission is to promote best practice in investor relations; to support the professional development of its members; to represent their views to regulatory bodies, the investment community and government; and to act as a forum for issuers and the investment community.

The Society has around 800 members from the UK, Europe and beyond, including representatives from most of the FTSE 100, a large number of FTSE 250 companies and a number of AIM and smaller companies as well as IR advisors and service providers. For more information visit irsociety.org.uk or connect with us or LinkedIn.

Published 27 November, 2024