Lenovo and TSMC head short lists for the IR Magazine Awards ‒ Greater China 2012
Lenovo and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) both feature on nine short lists out of a possible 11 for the upcoming IR Magazine Awards ‒ Greater China 2012. The Chinese and Taiwanese technology companies will battle it out at the annual awards event, which celebrates the best investor relations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and this year takes place on December 11 at the Conrad Hong Kong. For the full short lists, please click here.
The highly decorated TSMC has increased its record number of eight short lists in 2011, when it went on to win seven awards altogether. In equaling TSMC’s haul, Lenovo breaks up last year’s Taiwanese duopoly, when TSMC and HTC jointly shared the highest number of short lists.
HTC is not short-listed for any awards this year. In its place, fellow Taiwanese tech firm Delta Electronics is up for eight awards. Delta reached number five in the 2011 Greater China Top 30, IR Magazine’s rankings of the best corporate IR practitioners in the region. This came after featuring on four short lists in 2011, even though the company was ultimately unsuccessful, taking home the honor of being the highest-ranked company not to win an award.
Twelve months later, Delta Electronic forms part of a chasing pack from across Greater China: previous winners PetroChina and China Resources Enterprise join Pacific Basin Shipping of Hong Kong on eight short lists this year.
Just behind this quartet, China Telecom is in the running for six awards, marking a notable increase on the single short list it featured on in 2011. This includes competing for the grand prix award for large-cap companies, for which it will go up against Delta Electronics, PetroChina and TSMC ‒ the defending champion and the only returning company from 2011 for that award category. Meanwhile, Agile Property of China will get another shot at winning the grand prix award for small or mid-cap companies. The 2011 runner-up will compete for the title against Pacific Basin Shipping, Lenovo and Golden Eagle Retail.
The IR Magazine Awards ‒ Greater China are decided solely by an independent survey of investors and analysts, all of whom are located in the region. Just like in IR Magazine’s other awards in Europe and the Americas, investors and analysts are asked to vote for their favorite company in each awards category. This year, 436 respondents took part in the survey. The four companies with the most votes in each category make the short list, and the company with the most votes wins the award.
Votes for the IR Magazine Awards ‒ Greater China 2012 also determine the Greater China Top 25, IR Magazine’s rankings of the best IR companies in the region. The votes in each award category are added together and the company with the most votes becomes the number one ranked company in the region. The latest rankings will be revealed in the IR Magazine Investor Perception Study ‒ Asia 2012/2013, which will be published soon after the awards event.
