Land O’Lakes, Inc. has launched its 2009 Interactive Online Annual Report, “Member Owned – Idea Driven”. The online annual report, designed by Eisenman Associates, features a video introduction by Land O’Lakes’ CEO, Chris Policinski along with videos of Land O’Lakes Dairy Foods and Ag Services divisions. Eisenman Associates also designed the print version of the annual report which can be downloaded as a PDF.

IR Alert article “Is Your Online Annual Report Up to Snuff? New 2009 Online Annual Report (OAR) Report Highlights Trends, Best Practices for IROs” features “The 2009 Online Annual Report (OAR) Report” by Nina Eisenman & Elaine Palmer.

From the article…

This was a pivotal year for online annual reports.

Gone are the days of thick annual reports chock full of photos and traditional, typeset financial sections. Producing, printing and mailing hard-copy annual reports is expensive and time consuming. In an effort to manage costs and meet accelerated filing deadlines, companies have scaled back their printed annual reports to a point where the majority of 2007 and 2008 annual reports were slim 10-K wraps. A confluence of factors including cost saving initiatives, compressed filing deadlines and a general trend towards ubiquitous Internet use has fueled a move from hard copy to online distribution of annual reports. The final game changer, however, was the SEC’s Notice and Access.

Launched July 1, 2009, IR Alert provides the Investor Relations industry with a daily feed of news, opinion, analysis and marketing messages. This web-based service is delivered to IR practitioners at no charge and serves as a interactive advertising medium for service providers within the industry. The mission of the IR Alert editorial team is to bring together the best minds, practices and tools in IR.

IR Magazine featured “The Online Annual Report (OAR) Report” published by Eisenman Associates and written by NIna Eisenman and Elaine Palmer on its Website. The IR Magazine article, “Grading the Fortune 1000’s online annual reports” says “Eisenman, CEO of Eisenman Associates, a Manhattan-based graphic and interactive design agency, teamed up with Elaine Palmer, PepsiCo’s retired head of corp comms, to resurrect her OAR report after a long hiatus. The new report examines the online annuals of the whole Fortune 1000 list of US companies.” “Some of her own clients are naturally early adopters. Land O’ Lakes’ latest online annual had a CEO video along with videos about the company’s different businesses. Curtiss-Wright posted excerpts of recruitment videos to support the narrative section of its annual. For Maidenform, which prints a scaled back 10K wrap, Eisenman produces an award-winning online annual with lots of extra information. AFC Enterprises, the parent of Popeyes restaurants, uses its TV ads to emphasize its annual report messages. ”

The Online Annual Report (OAR) Report provides an overview of the history, evolution and possible future of Online Annual Reports. It establishes best-practices guidelines based on a comprehensive survey of the Fortune 1000 companies’ Online Annual Reports.

Rob & Felise Kissell with Nina & Robin Eisenman at NASDAQ

Nina & Robin Eisenman join NIRI NY President Felise Glantz Kissell at the NASDAQ Building in Times Square for the Closing Bell Ceremony. Felise, the Vice President of Investor Relations for HSN, Inc. and the host of NIRI NY’s exciting first event of the season, rang the closing bell.

Eisenman Associates wins three 2009 ARC Awards for excellence in Online Annual Report design. Maidenform Brands’ Online Annual Report “The Total Solution Company”, designed by design firm Eisenman Associates, wins a Silver ARC Award. Land O’Lakes Annual Report “Growing Together” wins a Bronze ARC Award for Online Annual Report Design. AFC Enterprises Online Annual Report wins a Bronze ARC Award for Online Annual Report design.

2009 ARC Annual Report Design Award

The 23rd Annual International ARC Awards – the world’s largest annual report competition honoring outstanding achievement in Annual Reports – were presented on September 17th at a gala ceremony at the Hotel Intercontinental in New York City. The winners were deemed the best out of over eighteen hundred entries from 25 countries.

Nina Eisenman has been accepted into the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), the premier membership organization for women presidents and CEOs of privately held, multimillion dollar companies.

Maidenform’s Annual Report, “Shaping Our Future”, has won a Creativity Annual Award for design. The annual report is pictured on page 24 of the 38th Creativity Annual which will be available in book stores in the Fall of 2009.

About The Creativity Annual Awards:

Established in 1970, The Creativity Annual Awards is based in Louisville, KY and is one of the longest running international advertising and graphic design competitions in the world. A print, web, advertising and media design competition, each year the judges choose the best from all over the world to be reproduced in the 400-page Creativity Awards Annual.

Maidenform Brand’s 2008 Online Annual Report, “The Total Solution Company”, designed and produced by Eisenman Associates features Maidenform’s breakthrough Total Solution Bra.

Maidenform Brands, Inc., is a global intimate apparel company with a portfolio of established and well-known brands, top-selling products and an iconic heritage.

In a CNBC “People, Planet & Profit” report on corporate sustainability the cover of the PepsiCo 2008 Sustainability Report, designed by Eisenman Associates, was featured as an example of successful reporting. The segment outlined the rise in sustainabitly reporting world-wide and goes on to explain that the push for sustainability reporting has come from both the consumer and investment communities. Continue reading “PepsiCo sustainability report designed by Eisenman Associates featured on CNBC” →

New York, NY — DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading business-to-business multicultural site, has named Eisenman Associates as one of the top businesses in the United States. This is the 9th annual listing of the US top businesses by DiversityBusiness.com. Companies listed on the Top Business Lists represent the Nation’s top multicultural businesses.

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