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Investis are delighted to congratulate our clients who won awards for excelling in online corporate and investor communications at the 2009 Investor Relations Society Best Practice Awards at a ceremony in the Royal Hospital Gardens, London, last night. Over the past five years Investis clients have won more than half of the available awards in the corporate website categories – a remarkable record of success.

Investis is now the 7th largest Design and Build agency in the UK, according to the influential NMA Top 100 Interactive Agencies 2009 rankings.

The quality of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure on corporate websites has improved markedly during the second quarter, according to research by Investis, Europe’s leading corporate website specialist. In its quarterly assessment of more than 500 corporate websites conducted between April and June, Investis found that the overall average website score improved by some 5% - the largest quarterly increase yet seen. The CSR category was the main driver of this performance, with a 15% increase in the average score for FTSE100 companies. There was also evidence in the survey of companies investing more in technology again, with scores in the Web 2.0 and Multimedia categories improving strongly in both Germany and the UK following weakness in the prior quarter.

Investis has extended its IQ Benchmarking service to the German market with the release of a ranking of DAX30 and MDAX companies, which will be launched at the 12th Annual DIRK Conference in Frankfurt on Monday 18th May. Deutsche Post heads the rankings, with Deutsche Bank, BASF, Thyssen Krupp and E.ON making up the top 5 in our survey.

Investis, Europe’s leading provider of online corporate communications services, is delighted to announce the launch of Chinalco’s corporate website (http://www.chinalco.com/). Chinalco, China's largest diversified mining company, recently announced plans for a strategic partnership with the Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto (http://www.riotinto.com/) in a deal worth $19.5bn. The website was designed and built in a matter of weeks and went live to co-inside with the deal announcement.