Dinner Dates/Venue
Thursday 11 March 2010,
Grosvenor House Hotel, London, W1

For further information contact the event organiser Christine Restall,
Ford Sinclair Ltd.
Tel: 01277 350557
Mobile: 07774 989 640
e-mail:
chris@ford-sinclair.co.uk

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The PLC Awards Dinner, based on an original idea by Ford Sinclair Ltd

Award Categories
best investor communication award
Sponsored by: Redleaf Communications
Success in communicating effectively with both professional and private investors and to shareholders and potential shareholders is the main criteria behind this award. The winner of this award will use a variety of communication tools to their maximum advantage to all shareholders, including the Annual Report, webcast presentations of annual meetings and earnings releases, participation at specialist investor forums and conferences, an investor relations web site, and electronic distribution of press releases.

Last year's winner (for reference purposes only): BTG plc

best performing share award
Sponsored by: Winterflood Securities Limited


best performing smaller company fund award
Sponsored by: KBC Peel Hunt Limited


achievement in sustainability award
Sponsored by: PricewaterhouseCoopers
This new award recognises accomplishments in one or more of the three key areas of economic, environmental and social sustainability. As well as making their own operations more sustainable, companies may have an important role in helping address wider issues such as the causes and effects of climate change, resource efficiency and innovation, or social equity. The winner will have demonstrated that it has understood its most significant sustainability-related impacts and opportunities, and have demonstrated achievements in one or more of these areas that has contributed to a more sustainable future. The Voting Panel will look for leadership, innovation, and lasting commitment to sustainability. Last year's winner (for reference purposes only): Marshalls plc

new company of the year award
Sponsored by: TBC
In short, a future company of the year, but one that has too short a track record to be considered for that award. The winner will have gone public in 2009, yet will already have demonstrated that it possesses both growth and management qualities. It will, in effect, have served notice to the investing community that this is a formidable growth public company in the making.

Last year's winner (for reference purposes only): Mears Group plc

best technology award
Sponsored by: Singer Capital Markets Ltd
The winner of this award will be a company whose business growth and success is dependent on, or attributable to, the development of one or more technologies or on the development of technology-led products or services which require or have demonstrated significant innovation either in terms of the technology itself or its application. The technology does not have to be proven and could range from communications, electronic and computer related areas, including online technologies or businesses, through to bio-tech, medical and health innovation.

Last year's winner (for reference purposes only): Oxford Instruments plc

entrepreneur of the year award
Sponsored by: Evolution Securities
The winner of this award will have demonstrated continued leadership of the business. The essential entrepreneurial spirit that enabled the group to succeed in its early days will have been retained, but a management structure that can cope with the demands of running a public company will have been introduced. Furthermore, recognising the importance of the management team and the workforce, there will have been active employee motivation.

Last year's winner (for reference purposes only): Robert Watson - Hilton Food Group plc

company of the year award
Sponsored by: College Hill Associates Limited
The winner of this award will be a company that has clearly demonstrated that success is not just a short term phenomenon. The winning company will undoubtedly be successful in share price terms, but with full realisation that share price is but one method of measurement. It will be professionally managed, of course; its long term strategy will be intact, and its growth and development to date will have been soundly financed as befits a conservatively run growth business.

Last year's winner (for reference purposes only): Telecom plus plc

turnaround of the year award
Sponsored by: Shore Capital
This award encompasses companies that have completed the most innovative turnaround of the year in a way likely to save or substantially improve the business and offer the prospect of the creation or enhancement of substantial shareholder value in the future. This could be an equity or debt refinancing, a restructuring and/or a debt for equity swap or a combination of all of those aspects. The winner would be a business that is now strongly positioned for future growth, rather than a business that had simply staved off the inevitable or one that was effectively being run solely to service its existing debt burden.