Stars over Stockholm

The good news: almost 80 percent of the investment professionals surveyed for the inaugural Investor Relations Magazine Nordic Awards say the quality of IR in the region has improved over the last year. The bad news: some say the improvement was from a very low base. It's true that many of the top-ranked companies have overhauled IR over the last year or two. Tomra Systems' Fredrik Witte, named best IRO in Norway, has only been on the job for half a year. Denmark's number one IRO, former analyst