We also prepare quarterly and half-yearly reports for many customers. As with the "big brother", speed and precision are needed here. This challenging task cannot be fulfilled expertly and successfully without attention to (numerical) detail.

A superbly prepared online annual report is now a standard feature of a good investor relations website. The opportunities of the electronic medium can only be fully utilised with internet-compatible reporting. This includes interactive dialogue. To prepare online annual reports, we work with partners who specialise in this area. In this way, we ensure that your web version of the annual report optimally combines technical possibilities with user requirements.

More and more companies that are not obliged to issue an annual report are discovering its advantages. Scene-setting and gripping corporate stories supplemented by figures on business performance and the corporate key figures do not constitute an annual report – but they still make something more than a straightforward image brochure. For small privately-owned companies, foundations, hospitals or local authorities, the annual review can be a central element of their communication with important target groups.

These days, commercial success is crucially dependent on the experienced culture of values. Responsibility has therefore become a firm component of corporate assessment. HGB advises you as to what corporate social responsibility (CSR) content there should be in your annual report, and when a separate sustainability report is worthwhile. We prepare CSR reports, such as that of Deutsche Telekom, in conjunction with specialist partners who have already amply demonstrated their high level of content-related consultancy and text expertise. This means that your sustainability report includes the latest findings of this young and active discipline. 

For many companies, an image brochure is an essential companion to the figures-oriented annual report. Design and look are hugely important in the image brochure; they enable the content and statements to be set out in diverse ways. At its best, the image brochure is a substantial information tool. In other words, it is a medium that summarises the core messages of the issuer in a visually and textually exciting manner. As experienced developers of the image sections of annual reports, we can also produce an impressive image brochure for you.

The analysis of your current annual report comes at the beginning. What are its strengths and weaknesses, and what potential do we see in terms of design, structure and text? HGB also offers this analysis as a standalone product. It has resulted in so much cooperation with great companies for which we now produce an annual report.

In early summer each year, HGB assesses the current annual reports from all stock market segments. For the 2009 reports, for example, we are interested in the following questions: What developments are there? How are German companies communicating against the backdrop of a fundamental change in the capital markets? Have the language or look changed? Is a reshuffle needed for the hard and soft facts? Economy, ecology or social: which strategic topics must future reports consider so as not only to describe the business but to persuade its readers in equal measure as a responsibility report? We present the results at our annual SUMMER LOUNGE event. 

Be clever: benefit from HGB's studies, presentations and trend reports; in short, everything that is beneficial to your annual report. In this manner, HGB has developed, in cooperation with the Bonn-based management consultancy Deep White, an innovative topic for your annual or sustainability report: a statement on the value capital of companies which provides a convincing reporting on the economic significance of the success factor of the culture of values. Secure your advance knowledge here. 

We never stop learning. This is why HGB arranges expert presentations on and around the future of the annual report. At the conference in our ANNUAL REPORTS series of events, we bring together thinkers, eminent figures and report makers in a varied programme in the inspiring atmosphere of the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Commerce. 

Your annual report reaches a wide-ranging audience. If you want to address these various target groups in the best possible way, you need to be familiar with the latest trends and requirements – at both national and international level. With the unique ANNUAL REPORTS exhibition, every two years at the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Commerce, we present award-winning reports from all over the world: the winners of the ARC AWARD. At the exhibition, visitors not only enjoy a concentrated taste of the global economy, but also enter a world of inspiration and information.