On January 26, 2012, NASDAQ OMX Baltic announced the companies from the NASDAQ OMX Baltic market with the best investor relations (IR) in 2011. The Baltic Market Awards ceremony took place simultaneously in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, the capitals of the Baltic States.
Geoffrey Mazullo, Chair of the NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market Awards Evaluation Committee, co-hosted with Arminta Saladziene, Chair of the Management Board of Nasdaq OMX Vilnius and the recently-appointed head of Baltic market, in Vilnius.
The Baltic Market Awards was introduced in 2006. The purpose of the international Baltic Market Awards project is to highlight the best investor relations in financial and non-financial reporting and improve the overall standard of investor relations among listed companies, as well as provide them with individual evaluation and consultancy from stock exchange side.
Each company is evaluated according to more than 120 criteria, including quality of the annual and periodical reports, disclosures, web page and analysts’ opinions. This year 54 companies were evaluated.
For more information about the 2010 Baltic Market Award winners and the Baltic Markets Awards Ceremony, please visit Baltic Market Awards 2011.