Every year, we, at Q4 look forward to networking and the amazing show put on by @irmagazine.

We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate our clients who have been nominated:

Grand prix for best overall investor relations – large cap (C$10 bn and over)

Goldcorp

Best investor relations officer – large cap

Goldcorp

Best IR by a CEO – large-cap

Goldcorp

Best IR by a CEO – mid-cap

Intact Financial

Best financial reporting

Goldcorp

Best investment community meetings

Goldcorp

Best use of technology

Agnico-Eagle

Best Practice of corporate social responsibility

Barrick Gold

Best Crisis Management

Agnico-Eagle

Best IR by a Canadian company in the US Market

First Quantum Minerals

SECTOR AWARDS

Materials
Agnico-Eagle
Barrick Gold
Goldcorp

Real Estate
Riocan

Congratulations and good luck!

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The CRA is in its 60th year and presents awards for excellence in financial reporting, corporate governance disclosure, electronic disclosure and sustainable development reporting to companies listed on the TSX and to federal Crown corporations.  Separate excellence and honourable mention awards are also presented to reports that are judged to be the best, regardless of industry sector, in each of these four judging areas.  Lastly, among the industry winners, one company is given the overall award of excellence for corporate reporting.

A lot of the companies were repeat winners from last year and Q4 would like to take this opportunity to extend our congratulations all of them!

Awards of Excellence for Large and Small Federal Crown Corporations:

• Large Crown winner — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
• Small Crown winner – Defence Construction Canada
• Provincial Crown winner – SaskTel

Awards of Excellence for Corporate Reporting: Industry winners:

• Communications & Media – TELUS Corporation
• Consumer Products – Tim Hortons
• Diversified Industries – SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.
• Financial Services – BMO Financial Group
• Forest Products – Catalyst Paper Corporation
• Life Sciences/Technology – Newalta
• Mining – PotashCorp
• Oil & Gas – Suncor
• Real Estate/Utilities & Pipelines – Enbridge

These industry winners received the highest average rankings in the four judging categories: financial reporting, electronic disclosure, sustainable development reporting and corporate governance disclosure.

An Award of Excellence was selected in each of the four judging categories and an Honourable Mention was given for financial reporting, electronic disclosure, sustainable development reporting and corporate governance disclosure.

The judging category winners are:

FINANCIAL REPORTING:

• Award of Excellence – PotashCorp
• Honourable Mention – BMO Financial Group

ELECTRONIC DISCLOSURE:

• Award of Excellence – Agnico-Eagle
• Honourable Mention – PotashCorp

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORTING:

• Award of Excellence – Suncor Energy Inc.
• Honourable Mention – TELUS Corporation

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE:

• Award of Excellence – TD Bank Financial Group
• Honourable Mention – Nexen Inc.

The Overall Award of Excellence for Corporate Reporting was presented to the most outstanding industry winner in 2011: TELUS Corporation.

Congratulations to all of the winners from the Q4 team!

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This is the second year in a row, that Agnico-Eagle has been recognized at the CRA for their best practice IR website, securing an Honorable Mention in the electronic disclosure category in 2010 – with first place awarded to Potash Corp., a winner in the electronic disclosure category multiple times.

Companies eligible for the electronic disclosure award were judged on specific content relevant to investors, navigation and usability, innovation, overall effectiveness and IR website best practices. This year, companies were also evaluated on how well they integrated social media into their sites.

Agnico’s long-standing commitment to continually improve the investor experience on their IR website is focused on achieving a global standard in best practices. An additional goal is to limit the effort required to update site content.

The strategy for the site evolved from a comprehensive IR website best practice audit of the Agnico site conducted by Q4 and provided to both the client and their design firm, The Works. This document detailed key recommendations, which were adapted in the redesign. A strong collaboration between Q4, The Works and Agnico-Eagle throughout the design and development of the site helped ensure that all key communications objectives were met.

What follows are some of the features that make Agnico’s site exemplar of best practices:

The Design

The talented team at The Works created a clean, progressive design that provides numerous ways for investors to easily navigate the site to not only find the information they are looking for, but to also ensure that they encounter the information Agnico wants them to see. For example, right from the home page the rotating images in the masthead highlight key content and events, and the drop-down main navigation prominently singles out one specific piece of content in addition to providing links to all sub-section information. The navigation also makes it easy for users to see where they are, where they want to go and how to make their way back. The site also brings key content forward by prominently displaying frequently sought information such as news releases and presentations, as well as providing lots of quick links:

Integrated Social Media Galleries

Agnico was interested in making their information more interactive and easily accessible – not just on their site, but in alternate channels as well. The multimedia galleries offer an extensive collection of Vimeo videos and Flickr photos, which Q4’s platform automatically pulls in from the social channels and integrates into their site. Some of these assets are also displayed elsewhere on the site in context with specific information:

Follow Us Page

The ‘Follow Us’ page on the site provides a number of ways to stay connected to the company such as email alerts, RSS feeds, Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo. In today’s multi-channel world, public companies must ’be where their investors are’ to stay connected. Prominently featuring ‘Follow Us’ as a universal link in the site header makes it easy for investors to find this information:

Quarterly Report Summary Page

Agnico’s quarterly summary page provides an aggregate view of all quarterly related materials in a single page. It includes the press release, conference call, webcast, report and financials. Agnico also provides a brief video of their CEO, Sean Boyd who provides commentary on the quarter. (Much of the information in this video is scripted in advance of the earnings call and Agnico’s video production company Silverpoint is able to shoot and produce the video to ensure that this information is on the site on the day of their earnings call.) The right rail in this section is entirely driven by tags. So each time the company reports their quarterly results, the tag on this page (for example Q22011) is updated to the next quarter i.e. Q32011. To address Agnico’s goal of minimizing manual updates, Agnico touches the content once and the information automatically aggregates on the quarterly page (and other pages, such as the Investor Briefcase, Presentations etc.).

Interactive Financial Data

The interactive financial data also called the ‘operational database’ on the Agnico site, is an innovative investor service that gives analysts a full set of interactive quarterly financials and fundamentals. Provided by our partner, Virtua Research the financial database permits customized charts, excel downloads and the ability to share content from the model through email and social networks:

This award underscores the commitment and effort Agnico puts into continually making their IR website an integral part of communicating their story to investors. Congratulations from the team at Q4 to everyone involved!

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The redesign of Agnico’s investor website started late in 2009, when David Smith, VP of IR at Agnico, came to us with the goal of making their website a best practice award winner. Starting with an audit of their corporate website, we worked with the team at Agnico and their design agency ‘The Works’ to create a leading-edge investor website. The result is a great showcase of best practices and what’s possible with the Q4 platform.

Here are some of the highlights of www.agnico-eagle.com:

The Design – based on Q4 best practices, the talented team at The Works created a clean, progressive design that we just love. Priority information is given special graphic treatment on the home and interior landing pages.

A detailed roll-over navigation pulls forward key content from each section. Relational links throughout the site do a great job of helping the user find what they’re looking for.

Integrated Social Media Galleries – Agnico was interested in making their information more interactive and easily accessible – not just on their site, but in alternate channels as well. The multimedia galleries offer an extensive collection of high-quality Vimeo videos and Flickr photos, which are integrated into the site and displayed in innovative ways.

One of the many videos available in the multimedia gallery.

Quarterly Report Summary Page – users can quickly access an aggregate of all quarterly report information including the press release, conference call, webcast, report, financials and a quarterly video from Agnico’s CEO, Sean Boyd. To minimize manual updates, much of this information automatically aggregated on this page using tags, like ‘Q32010’. Agnico uploads the quarterly assets once and the content publishes on all of the desired pages.

Interactive Financial Data – The Financial and Operating Database was conceived by Agnico’s IR Manager, Dmitry Kushnir (a former analyst) in collaboration wirh Virtua Research (who provide the backend). This innovative service gives analysts a full set of quarterly financials and fundamentals, delivered through a browser or as excel downloads; customizable charts and the ability to share content from the model through email and social networks.

Follow Us Page – staying connected to investors in today’s market is all about providing choices so users can access information in the channels they frequent. Agnico’s ‘Follow Us’ page provides a number of ways to stay connected: email alerts, RSS, Twitter and Facebook. (Agnico is also doing a great job on Facebook, their corporate page is one of my personal favorites.)

Agnico is constantly looking for ways to improve their website for their investors and stakeholders. With many things in store for 2011, we’re looking forward to next year!
Congratulations to all those involved with Agnico-Eagle.

Cheers!

Darrell

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Canada’s Emerging Growth Companies are a tiny elite. Most of the tens of thousands of businesses launched each year in this country fail within a few years. Even among the survivors, only a precious few expand at anything close to the blistering pace of the PROFIT HOT 50, whose revenue growth averaged 1,007% over the past two years.

In spite of sectoral downturns, qualified worker shortages, prospects’ reluctance to buy from a young firm, and currency fluctuations, every HOT 50 firm at least doubled its revenue from 2006 through 2008, and 13 grew by at least 1,000%. The extraordinary performance of the PROFIT HOT 50 goes beyond the top line. Fully 70% were already in the black in 2008.

Click here for a short interview “Climb the mountain from the top down” with Darrell Heaps about how Q4 got started.

source: Canadian Business Online

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