At the ARC Awards 2024, HGB clients won a total of 5 awards with 6 entries. At the top of the winner’s podium was our client Armacell, receiving one Gold and one Grand Award for the “PDF Version of Annual Report” category. Evonik was also catapulted to the podium with one Gold and two Honors. Congratulations to our two award winners!
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For anyone involved in the reporting business, the term “system-based reporting” is almost inescapable at the moment. Boris Fister, Director of Consulting & Processes at HGB, explains in an interview what this trend is all about, what it means for clients, and how HGB is responding.
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They still exist. Publications you can pick up and leaf through, made of real paper and high-quality print. In a business that is now almost exclusively digital, magazines like the one we created for our customer Salzgitter stand out as special highlights. This particular issue is about the green transformation of the steel industry, making it only fitting that the magazine’s production is sustainable too. Our passion and expertise for print seem to come across – so much so that paper manufacturer IGEPA featured this hot-off-the-press publication in the latest edition of its customer magazine, CIRCLE.
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Travel broadens the mind – even when it comes to reporting. In May and June 2024, the HGB team embarked on a tour to key industry events, making stops in Berlin, Zurich and Vienna. Our journey focused on issues relating to sustainability: How can companies shape the transformation? What impact do regulatory requirements have? What role do data and software play? Events like MOVE, the CCR Annual Report Symposium and the firesys Business Conference provided the perfect platform for networking, identifying trends and sharing experiences. Our expertise was also in demand, as highlighted by our presentation at MOVE, the premier German-language conference for sustainability communication.
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Debuting in 2024, the Integrity Star Award promises to enrich the award landscape for sustainability reports. This award has an exciting, truly innovative concept that relies–solely on an unbiased perspective based on data and analyst evaluations. As such, it provides a seal of quality with substance for the ever-important topic of sustainability, backed by a forward-looking evaluation method. HGB Managing Director Peter Poppe explains why this concept has won our endorsement and why we have become an agency partner of this competition.
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There is no shortage of awards – including in the field of sustainability reporting. So what makes the new Integrity Star Award so special? The name says it all: the highest standards of integrity, transparency and objectivity are what make this award stand out. Instead of using a jury, reports are assessed in a completely unbiased manner based on a scoring system of around 4,000 variables. We think this is an exciting concept for assessing the quality of sustainability reporting – and why we are involved as a partner.
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ESG, CSRD, Green Deal – short words with a big impact. Regulatory requirements and reporting in the area of sustainability are increasingly on the minds of companies. The days when this was a “nice-to-have” topic are certainly over. The new requirements mean that substance counts more than ever when presenting corporate sustainability performance. A bothersome obligation or a huge opportunity? Peter Poppe has a clear opinion on this matter and explains it in an interview with Tonno Digitale, a blog for B2B PR and digital corporate communications.
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Around the turn of the year, we strengthened our team with two new experts: Ute Kollross, who started on December 1, 2023 as Project Manager, to be followed by Kristina Röver in mid-January, also as Project Manager. Welcome, both of you!
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It’s less and less about the narrative, and more and more about the facts. Under this motto, around 30 participants at the HGB event “sustainability – it counts” discussed why the future of sustainability management and communication will be about stringency, substance and transparency. After a lively day full of exchange, interaction and insights, employees, clients and representatives of HGB’s partner companies all agreed that the pilot project had been a success and would like to see it repeated next year!
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Is CSRD becoming a storytelling spoiler in sustainability reporting? HGB Managing Director Peter Poppe explores this question in his guest article in the current issue of new business, a trade magazine for communication and media. Poppe is certain that the new EU standard will fundamentally change sustainability reporting. He’s also certain that there’s always room for compelling corporate stories – what’s needed is just the right concepts and formats.
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Where are the trends in reporting headed? As an agency specializing in corporate reporting, naturally this is something we always precisely want to know. To find out, we take a look at the annual and sustainability reports of SDAX, MDAX and DAX40 companies every year. Once again, we have compiled the results in detail in the extensive HGB Reporting Compass – You can read the key findings of the analysis here.
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Maxi Kohrt and Anna Juling, both work students, are a breath of fresh air at HGB. They support our team with a wide range of tasks and are getting familiar with reporting processes hands-on. Welcome, and we hope you enjoy your time with us!
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