Polymetal has won a number of prestigious awards for its investor relations and reporting practices

Polymetal celebrates its recent awards for the successes in investor relations, annual and sustainability reporting from IR Society (UK), Moscow Exchange, IR Magazine (Europe) and Communicate Magazine (UK).

• At the most prestigious IR event for the UK-listed companies, IR Society Best Practices Awards 2020, Polymetal won two awards:

  • “Most Effective Overall Communication of Company Investment Proposition (International Companies)”. The judges commended Polymetal for making excellent progress in areas such as sustainability and governance, and for delivering a robust set of materials that clearly and consistently articulated the investment proposition and were easy to navigate.

  • The company had also clearly articulated how sustainability is embedded in the company’s operations and supplemented this with examples further on in the report which addressed areas such as stakeholder engagement.

• At the main Russian reporting contest held by Moscow Exchange – 2020 Annual Report Competition, Polymetal’s annual report won the first place in the Metals & Mining sector and received the silver award in the main category – Best Annual Report of the largest companies (market cap over RUB 200 billion), where it was nominated for the first time.

• At the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2020 which covered the broadest geography among the awards Polymetal took part in, the Company was awarded Best ESG materiality reporting (small to mid-cap) and shortlisted in Best annual report (mid-cap), Best investor event (small to mid-cap) and Best IR website (mid-cap).

• The bronze award was presented for the Best Printed Report (International Companies) at the Corporate & Financial Awards (UK) held by Communicate Magazine.

Instinctif Partners acted as the consultant for annual and sustainability reports preparation.