World Championship for Annual Reports

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Canada and Sweden dominate this year’s edition of Annual Report on Annual Reports. Canadian company Telus is ranked first among non-financial companies and BKO Financial, also Canada, comes first among banks. Swedish companies SAS, SCA and Stora Enso (Finnish/Swedish) follow on the non-financial list and SEB is second among banks.

e.com has evaluated more than 600 annual reports for 2005 from the whole world. All in all 30 Swedish companies were included among the top 300 nonfinancial and 50 finacial companies included in the published lists. The top 1300 listed companies worldwide have been invited to send in their annual reports. It is alo possible to send in your report without an invitation.

Many Swedish companies rank high in the lists. Among the top 13 companies, receiving the highest note World Class (A+) 6 are Swedish and among the 31 receiving the note First-Rate or Excellent (A or A-) 7 are Swedish!

The evaluation follows a list of 25 criteria, sorted in to 5 areas. Swedish companies are extremely good at “Share and investor information” and at “Business, operations and Market information”. SCA tops the ranking in the first area and Vattenfall the other area.

Also concerning "Financial and performance reporting" Swedish companies are found on the top list, but not highest ranked. In the areas "Governance, leadership, boards and compensation" and "Packaging, visuals and communication" Swedish companies score less well.

Top 10 Global non-financial companies + Swedish companies among the Top 150

 * Hallvarsson& Halvarsson AB has to a varying degree been involved in the production

Enterprise.com (e.com) makes this evaluation of Annual Reports for the tenth year, following the same model. ( )

Gabriel Thulin
Hallvarsson & Halvarsson