Best non-financial reports of Ukrainian opanies chosen

The Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility Development and PocketBook have awarded the best readers and authors within the Readers’ Choice Award, the contest for the best non-financial report by a company. General partner of the contest – PocketBook.

The Centre for CSR Development is organizing the Readers’ Choice Award for the second time, and aims to draw stakeholders’ attention to non-financial reporting and motivate companies to raise the quality of content and form of their reports.

This year, 482 registered readers participated in voting for the best non-financial report and determined three most interesting reports – Kyivstar, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, System Capital Management.

The three most attentive readers and commentators of non-financial reports received an electronic book PocketBook from the general partner of the contest. The second-time winner of the readers’ contest, a teacher at the NTU KPI, Alla Syngaivska, noted: “I have read all reports and can state that the quality of non-financial reports, compared to the last year, has risen greatly – meaningfully and by appearance. I think that the Readers’ Choice Award played an important role in this”.

“The non-financial reports contest is firstly, the possibility to acquaint the public with the concept of CSR reporting and raise the quality of companies’ non-financial reports. So, the reports that were awarded – are the result of evaluation by the ordinary visitors – companies’ employees, partners, teachers, other representatives of business. We congratulate the winners with such outstanding recognition from society. And, in order to raise the level of comments, the Centre for CSR Development is beginning a monthly expert evaluation of company reports”, – Maryna Saprykina, head of Centre for CSR Development.

“PocketBook is sure that a person actively gains knowledge, develops and helps others to develop. We are sure that comments by active readers give companies good feedback and become a guide for improving subsequent reports. For its part, our products will help winners to read more and more comfortably, always and everywhere”, – Veronika Yankovska, company representative.

Reports of the following companies participated in Readers’ Choice Award 2011: Kyivstar, Ernst & Young Ukraine, BDO, Foxtrot, HCM Group, Vitmark, SCM, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Interpipe, Metinvest, Clever Group, NAI Pickard, ViDi Group and Mriya Invest. Due to technical problems, the Astelit report did not take part in the contest. All the reports are accessible via the site of the project.

If you have additional questions, please contact Olena Gubankova, e-mail: og@csr-ukraine.org, phone (044) 280 11 47, cell 093 468 79 25.