Awards

Silver for the K+S 2010 Financial Report and Corporate/Sustainability Report

The German Designer Club honoured K+S Aktiengesellschaft’s 2010 Financial Report and the Corporate/Sustainability Report with a silver 2011 DDC Award. The excellent conception, the high typographic and photographic quality, and the confident mastery of an ambitious format were all highlighted.  

Bronze for the K+S 2010 Financial Report

With the Econ Awards for Corporate Communication, the “Handelsblatt” newspaper and Econ Verlag publishing house honour companies and organisations whose corporate communication sets standards. The categories Business Report, Image Publication, Magazine, Sustainability and CSR Report, Image Film, Digital Media, PR Activities, Social Media Activities and Integrated Corporate Communication are considered. Outstanding publications, the companies responsible and their creative agencies are also presented in detail in the Corporate Communication Yearbook.

K+S received the bronze award for the Financial Report and is on the shortlist in the Sustainability/CSR Report and Image Film categories.

4th place in the Dax (2010: 1st place)
6th place in the overall evaluation (2010: 1st place)

In manager magazin’ s competition "The Best Annual Reports", the K+S annual report for 2010 scored 77.87 out of 100 points to be awarded 4th place in the Dax. In the overall evaluation consisting of 160 companies listed on the Dax, MDax, SDax and TecDax, K+S came at number 6.

Each of the reports was judged on the basis of 330 criteria by independent assessors in accordance with the categories ‘content’, ‘design’ and ‘language’.

Capital 
Investor 
Relations 
Award 2011

7th place in the Dax (previous year: 9th place)

For the 15th time, the German business magazine Capital (issue 07/2011) and the German Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management (DVFA) have evaluated the Investor Relations among the 200 most important German and European companies on the Stoxx Europe 50, Dax, MDax, TecDax and SDax. The "Capital Investor Relations Award" was based this year on a survey of almost 300 investment specialists. They rated the quality of the Investor Relations departments in relation to four criteria: dedication to their target audience, transparency, track record and additional financial reporting. Five levels of assessment are possible for each of these.

With 378 points, K+S came 7th in the Dax category (previous year: 9th place with 323 points).

K+S: 18th place in the DAX category (previous year: 18th place)

At the gala dinner of the 14th annual DIRK conference in May 2011, Thomson Extel Survey, part of Thomson Financial, together with WirtschaftsWoche magazine and the DIRK - Deutscher Investor Relations Verband e.V. awarded the "German Investor Relations Award 2011" in the categories Dax, MDax, SDax and TecDax. Moreover. 794 experts from 250 buy-side and sell-side companies participated in the survey.

With 30 points, K+S came 18th in the Dax category (last year: 18th place).

Börse Online – Readers’ Choice of the Best Investor Relations in Germany (BIRD 2010)

4th place in the DAX (previous year: 2nd place)
7th place overall (previous year: 7th place)

In its BIRD 2010 (Beste Investor Relations Deutschland) poll, BÖRSE ONLINE has, for a eighth time, examined the extent to which private investors feel they are well informed about the course of business, strategy and future prospects of Germany’s 160 largest listed companies. As in previous years, the poll focussed on how credible and readily understandable IR department communications are, but investors were also asked to comment on, for example, annual reports and the quality of corporate websites.  More than 730 individual responses in total were received from investors.

1st place in the Dax (2009: 5th place)
1st place in the overall evaluation (2009: 7th place)

In manager magazin’ s competition "The Best Annual Reports", the K+S annual report for 2009 scored 80.99 out of 100 points to be awarded 1st place in the Dax. In the overall evaluation consisting of 200 companies listed on the Dax, MDax, SDax and TecDax, K+S came at number 1 as well.

Each of the reports was judged on the basis of 330 criteria by independent assessors in accordance with the categories ‘content’, ‘design’ and ‘language’.

ARC Award (Annual Report Competition)

ARC Gold Award for the 2009 Online Annual Report

MerComm Inc., USA, has granted the ARC (Annual Report Competition) Award for the 24th time. In that competition, the best annual reports from among approximately 2000 companies in 30 different countries are selected each year by an international jury composed of people from the areas of investor relations, journalism, design and photography.This is the first time that K+S has been awarded the prize for the best online annual report in the fertilizer/plant care category.

Capital 
Investor 
Relations 
Award 2010

9th place in the Dax (previous year: 13th place)

For the 14th time, the German business magazine Capital (issue 07/2010) and the German Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management (DVFA) have evaluated the Investor Relations among the 198 most important German and European companies on the Stoxx Europe 50, Dax, MDax, TecDax and SDax. The "Capital Investor Relations Award" was based this year on a survey of almost 400 analysts of  nearly 300 European banks, funds and companies. They rated the quality of the Investor Relations departments in relation to four criteria: dedication to their target audience, transparency, track record and additional financial reporting. Five levels of assessment are possible for each of these.

With 323 points, K+S came 9th in the Dax category (previous year: 13th place with 332 points).

K+S: 18th place in the DAX category (previous year: 15th place)

At the gala dinner of the 13th annual DIRK conference in May 2010, Thomson Extel Survey, part of Thomson Financial, together with WirtschaftsWoche magazine and the DIRK - Deutscher Investor Relations Verband e.V. awarded the "German Investor Relations Award 2010" in the categories Dax, MDax, SDax and TecDax. Moreover. More than 800 experts from 300 buy-side and sell-side companies participated in the survey.

With 337 points, K+S came 18th in the Dax category (last year: 15th place with 429 points).

Börse Online – Readers’ Choice of the Best Investor Relations in Germany (BIRD 2009)

2nd place in the DAX (previous year: 5th place)
7th place overall (previous year: 18th place)

In its BIRD 2009 (Beste Investor Relations Deutschland) poll, BÖRSE ONLINE has, for a seventh time, examined the extent to which private investors feel they are well informed about the course of business, strategy and future prospects of Germany’s 160 largest listed companies. As in previous years, the poll focussed on how credible and readily understandable IR department communications are, but investors were also asked to comment on, for example, annual reports and the quality of corporate websites.  More than 1700 individual responses in total were received from investors.

With 66.7 points (previous year: 56.0) K+S gained seventh place overall in the poll (previous year: 18th place) and 2nd place in the DAX (previous year: 5th place).

5th place in the Dax (2008: 2nd place MDAX)
7th place in the overall evaluation (2008: 4th place)

In manager magazin’ s competition "The Best Annual Reports", the K+S annual report for 2008 scored 77.28 out of 100 points to be awarded 5th place in the Dax. In the overall evaluation consisting of 200 companies listed on the Dax, MDax, SDax, TecDax and EuroStoxx50, K+S came at number 7.

Each of the reports was judged on the basis of 330 criteria by independent assessors in accordance with the categories ‘content’, ‘design’ and ‘language’.

42th place among more than 3,500 submitted reports from 22 countries
Gold Award – Chemicals

In the internationally acclaimed "Vision Awards Annual Report Competition" organised by the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP), the K+S annual report for 2008 was awarded 97 out of 100 points. Overall, it thus came 42th among the more than 3,500 reports submitted from 22 countries. K+S won the second highest, Gold Award, in the "Chemicals" segment.