Itron, a meter supplier for the energy and water industries, has brought in Barbara Doyle as vice president of investor relations. She...Read more

Companies have clamped down on social media use by their employees as managers fret over security and data loss concerns, according to...Read more

Investors have pressured the Financial Reporting Council into scrapping a proposal that would have allowed UK companies to stop...Read more

Hedge funds are back. One estimate from hedge fund analysis specialist Hedge Fund Research puts the size of the industry in the first...Read more

Companies have continued to downsize the annual shareholder meeting, raising questions about the future of the physical event,...Read more

Maple Group, the consortium of Canadian financial services firms bidding to acquire TMX Group, has reaffirmed its commitment to the...Read more

AkzoNobel’s head of IR is leaving the IR profession to take up a new role doing charity work. Huib Wurfbain, who joined the paints and...Read more

Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext have taken a small step closer to their merger by receiving approval from a US government body that...Read more

Mike Lynch, chief executive of Autonomy, has defended the takeover of UK companies by US buyers. Lynch and the rest of Autonomy’s...Read more

Ken Morrison, the former chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, has been handed a hefty fine by the UK financial watchdog for his...Read more

IR magazine has announced the launch of a new list ranking the best IR departments across Europe. The ‘IR Magazine Europe Top...Read more

UK companies are keeping a tight rein on annual report costs, with budgets flat or down in most cases. The pressure on budgets has...Read more

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is thinking about coordinating a continent-wide ban on short selling, according...Read more

Banking stocks should be avoided following the downgrade to US debt by Standard & Poor’s, according to a new report from Bank of...Read more

WR Grace, the bankrupt chemicals maker, has hired Mark Sutherland as vice president of investor relations. Sutherland arrives from...Read more

Last week, casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment laid down the reasons why it believes it should take a secondary listing in Hong...Read more

Newly listed Kosmos Energy has brought in Brad Whitmarsh as the oil and gas company’s vice president of investor relations. Kosmos,...Read more

Maple Group, the consortium of Canadian banks and pension funds aiming to take over TMX Group, has pushed back the deadline for its C$...Read more

Deutsche Börse has announced that shareholders representing more than 95 percent of outstanding stock have backed the exchange’s...Read more

Nexis has taken on Sheffield United, the UK football team, as a shareholder in return for shirt sponsorship during next year’s season...Read more

Glencore International has finally got round to appointing a new IRO, two months after Nicholas Bias quit the role, according to a...Read more

Airgas has honored vice president of communications and IR Jay Worley for his work fending off a year-long takeover attempt by Air...Read more

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), a business lobby group, has called on regulators to get on with changes to governance...Read more

Putting hedge funds into group meetings can help to soften up their questioning style, according to one speaker on the IR Magazine...Read more

Cable and Wireless Worldwide (C&W Worldwide) suffered a major pay revolt at its annual meeting yesterday in London. Around a third...Read more

Carl Icahn has improved his bid for Clorox and rebuked the company’s management for defending its performance. Yesterday, Icahn...Read more

The Australian investment community has followed those in the US and Canada by stating that investor relations can have a significant...Read more

Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has attempted to start a bidding war for household goods maker Clorox by putting the...Read more

Deutsche Börse shareholders have backed the exchange’s planned merger with NYSE Euronext. The German bourse confirmed yesterday that...Read more

XBRL US has attracted four entrants in the first week of its competition that carries a $20,000 prize for the most useful and...Read more

Deutsche Börse’s shareholders edged closer to approving the exchange group’s merger with NYSE Euronext yesterday. The German bourse...Read more

The Church of England is using its position as an investor in News Corp to apply pressure to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The church...Read more

The Basic House Co is set to become the first Korean company to list in Hong Kong, according to a report from Dow Jones . The Korean...Read more

There is a plan in the works for a new Russian investor relations certificate, according to Olga Rink, executive director of Russia’s...Read more

The joining of NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse moved a step closer today when the former’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor...Read more

The majority of companies in the UK’s FTSE 350 Index have adopted annual elections for the full board, according to data from...Read more

A new report has called on companies to spend more time talking with the buy side about long-term business plans and sustainability. ‘...Read more

Norske Skog, the Norwegian paper manufacturer, has announced the appointment of a new vice president of investor relations. Tom Rogn,...Read more

PDC Energy has appointed IR veteran Ron Wirth as director of investor relations. Wirth has two decades of experience in the IR field,...Read more

M&A activity in the US continued to pick up pace in the first five months of 2011 and is set to accelerate further during the...Read more

StockTwits , the fast-growing online investment community, today officially launched a suite of services to help companies manage...Read more

Prada has began the bookbuilding for its Hong Kong listing as luxury brands seek to take advantage of interest among Chinese investors...Read more

Albemarle, the NYSE-listed producer of specialty chemicals, has promoted Lorin Crenshaw to the role of director of investor relations...Read more

WPP saw off an investor backlash over pay at its annual meeting yesterday when more than 40 percent of investors voted against the...Read more

General Growth Properties (GGP), the NYSE-listed real estate investment trust, has hired Andrew Joa as its new vice president of...Read more