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40 years of celebrating success

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the plc awards is usually held in February or March every year and is open to all those companies listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange – colloquially known as the “plc club”. The success of the awards has led to it being broadened out to include FTSE100 companies as well as the FTSE250, FTSE Small Cap and Fledgling indices. Our aim is to truly make it ‘the’ City event of the year and to allow all Main Market publicly quoted companies, of whatever size, the chance to be rewarded and recognised for their successes and achievements.

Once again, this year we have widened the criteria for each category to give full emphasis to ESG practices – covering well known environmental issues, along with social issues and governance matters. Due regard will be given to adherence to current ESG Best Practice and any demonstrable ESG policies that have directly impacted decision making.

The event is attended by plc company chairmen, CEOs, CFOs, investment bankers, fund managers, analysts, IR executives, corporate advisers and pre-IPO companies.

The event was sponsored by BDO in association with the London Stock Exchange. It was presented by Rachel Burden. After dinner entertainment was provided by Romesh Ranganathan.

Phil Austen, Sales Director at Perivan, was delighted to attend the event at the Grosvenor House Hotel as a guest of the London Stock Exchange.

The award categories and successful winners were:

• Best investor communication award – Babcock International Group plc
• Transaction of the year award – Zegona Communications plc
• Growth business of the year award – XPS Pensions Group plc
• Tech business of the year award – Rightmove plc
• Transformation of the year award – Funding Circle Holdings plc
• Fund manager award – Ambrose Faulks and Ed Legget/Artemis
• Breakthrough of the year award – Avon Technologies plc
• CEO of the year award – John Morgan/Morgan Sindall Group plc
• New company of the year award – Raspberry Pi Holdings plc
• Company of the year award – Games Workshop Group plc
• Outstanding achievement award – Sage Group plc