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Our purpose
We exist to help companies, investors and stakeholders gain the maximum benefit from the narrative in corporate reporting focused on future thinking and action.
Our mission
Our mission is to make the market value of listed companies a less risky and more certain proposition through the effective communication of intangible value.
Our vision
Our vision is to provide by the end of 2011 an effective and valued global service comparing intangible value in the corporate annual reporting of the world's leading companies.
Our clients
Investment firms use our research service to add depth and perspective to corporate governance, socially responsible and other more fundamental sources of investment research information, improving the quality of their decision-making.
Listed companies use our research and advisory services for an external perspective to benchmark how they measure up against peers, competitors, and exemplars, and to optimise the quality of their own corporate reporting.
Corporate communications, design and professional services firms use our research to help them enhance their own services to listed company clients. They also use our advisory service to assist them in developing new business.
Our services
We evaluate the narrative in corporate annual reporting for the quality of strategic thinking, planning, management and action evident. We analyse and score this using a framework outlined in best practice guidance to permit direct comparability against all other companies. The output from our analysis and evaluation is an in-depth 8-page profile and a separate ranking of all companies covered. Access options range from single profile purchase to unlimited library usage - more information.
We also help our clients to extract the maximum knowledge and value from the contents of our research library through specific and bespoke advisory services - more information.
Who we are
FutureValue is a specialist research-based consulting firm. It has pioneered and proved the Strategic Value Analysis technique. Ian McDonald Wood is the founder and Director of the research and advisory team.
Unsurpassed strategic value
Top of the Strategic Value Ranking Cadbury plc has always been near the top spot since our first evaluations in 2004. The logic of the Kraft bid is clear, but will the interests of CBRY's shareholders be best served by submitting? The answer is an emphatic 'No'. The Company's current ranking suggests it will do far better for its shareholders in independent pursuit of its vision "to be the biggest and the best confectionery company in the world". CBRY's TSR will continue to outperform. For more information email Ian McDonald Wood
 
Online Annual Reporting
'Smart', interactive' and 'dynamic' are words frequently attached to the use of online PDFs for Annual Reports. Yet, invariably, they are none of these. One exception this year is BT plc with a 'super smart' online PDF Annual Report. BT's efforts point to the unexplored possibilities of using Acrobat PDFs to create low cost, truly integrated online/offline Annual Reports complete with embedded video, charts and more. Who needs HTML? FV's 2009 Annual Online Reporting Study will consider.
 
Company of the month
Greene King adds +2.4 to score 6.4 and leaps into the second quartile of the Strategic Value Ranking. For the first time GNK reveals the quality of its strategic thinking and strategic management. More expansive and richer narrative content also now reveals GNK's underlying strategic capability. This more coherent narrative should begin to engage analysts and investors. Plaudits to the brewers!

 

 

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