This year has seen IR professionals, PR professionals and communicators really raise their game. Celebrating 10 years of excellence in corporate and financial communications, this awards programme is the only true benchmark of companies’ communication with the City and its influencers.

The Corporate & Financial Awards 2021 are dedicated to identifying brilliance across a range of areas, from ‘Best printed report,’ and ‘Best CSR/ESG report,’ to campaign and strategy specific awards including ‘Best M&A communications’ and ‘Best evaluation of a communications campaign.’

Andrew Thomas, founder of the Corporate & Financial Awards and publisher of Communicate magazine, says, “It is quite remarkable that this has been a record year for the Corporate & Financial Awards. It highlights the calibre of work coming from those who communicate with the City and those who influence the City.”

This year’s awards programme includes the first ‘Best corporate and financial communication during the Covid-19 pandemic’ award, to honour those British businesses that found innovative and impactful ways to communicate with the City.

The winners of the Corporate & Financial Awards 2021 will be announced at the awards ceremony in Central London on 23 September. To join the celebration reserve your table here.

The shortlist for the Corporate & Financial Awards 2021 is as follows:

Best corporate website: FTSE 100
Anglo American and Investis Digital
Coca-Cola HBC and Black Sun
Evraz and Zebra Communications
Pearson and Investis Digital
Polymetal International and Zebra Communications

Best corporate website: FTSE250
Tritax Group and Gather

Best corporate website: AIM/small cap
Halfords Group and Jones and Palmer
Inland Homes and Jones and Palmer
Palace Capital plc and Jones and Palmer
Wentworth Resources Plc and three thirty studio

Best corporate website: International
Diaverum and MerchantCantos
Nornickel and Zebra Corporate Communications
Stenprop and Jones and Palmer

Best corporate website: Unlisted
Inmarsat and Black Sun Plc

Best printed report: FTSE 100
Anglo American and Salterbaxter
Barclays and Ensemble Studio
Legal & General and Superunion
Mondi Group
Pearson and Friend Studio
Rentokil Initial

Best printed report: FTSE 250
Assura and Gather
Balfour Beatty
Direct Line Group and Black Sun Plc
Drax and Conran Design Group
Howden Joinery Group and Emperor
IWG and Black Sun Plc
Playtech plc and Design Portfolio
Vectura Plc and Design Portfolio

Best printed report: AIM/small cap
Arrow Global and Black Sun Plc
Henry Boot Group and Jones and Palmer
SMS and Instinctif Partners
SThree Plc and Emperor
TT Electronics and Conran Design Group
U and I Group PLC and Gather
Warehouse REIT plc and Lyonsbennett

Best printed report: International
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc
En+ Group IPJSC and Instinctif Partners
House of HR and MerchantCantos
LafargeHolcim and MerchantCantos
MMK and Instinctif Partners
Swiss Re and Superunion
The Adecco Group and Black Sun

Best printed report: unlisted
Czarnikow with Frances Herrod Design and CooperNixon Corporate Communications
Highways England and Conran Design Group
Lloyd's Register Foundation and Luminous
Octapharma and Luminous
Southern Water and Jones and Palmer
UK Power Networks and Instinctif Partners

Best online report: FTSE100
Anglo American and Investis Digital
BT and Emperor
Burberry and Black Sun
Coca-Cola HBC and Black Sun
Legal & General and Superunion
United Utilities and Jones and Palmer

Best online report: FTSE250
Coats and Emperor
Dechra Pharmaceuticals and Jones and Palmer
Direct Line Group and Black Sun
Playtech plc and Design Portfolio

Best online report: AIM/small cap
Halfords Group and Jones and Palmer
Henry Boot Group and Jones and Palmer
Severfield and Jones and Palmer
Volution Group plc

Best online report: International
Gazprom Neft and Zebra Communications
House of HR and MerchantCantos
LafargeHolcim and MerchantCantos
Nornickel and Zebra Communications
RGA and Luminous
VTB and Zebra Communications

Best online report: Unlisted
Digital Catapult and Jones and Palmer
Lloyd's Register Foundation and Luminous
SUEK and Zebra Communications
UK Power Networks and Instinctif Partners

Best CSR/ESG report
bp and Radley Yeldar
Intertek and Emperor
Mondelez and MerchantCantos
Mondi Group
Phoenix Group and Conran Design Group
Polymetal International plc and Instinctif Partners

Best meeting
McBride plc and Instinctif Partners

Best M&A communications
AA Plc and FTI Consulting
LSEG and Bladonmore

Best IPO Communications
PensionBee and Big Button

Best corporate and financial communication during the Covid-19 pandemic
Barclaycard and Hanover
Deloitte
Lloyds Bank and Grayling
MMK
Spire Healthcare and Instinctif Partners
Young's Pubs and ENGINE MHP

Best use of digital media
RELX
Shaftesbury and ENGINE MHP
TwentyFour Asset Management and Big Button

Best management of investor & analyst relations
MMK

Best IR agency or PR consultancy
ENGINE MHP + Mischief
Lansons

The winner of the ‘Annual report of the year’ will be named at the ceremony on 25 September.