TescoDigital Impact Awards 2011Winner: Best use of digital by sector – Retail
MerchantCantos has won gold at this year’s Digital Impact Awards for ‘Best use of digital by sector – Retail’ for our work creating Tesco’s new corporate website.
The new site — www.tescoplc.com — was redesigned from the ground up to provide a broad overview of the Tesco business, focusing on its 92-year heritage and breadth of operations across 14 countries. MerchantCantos delivered a site with updated functionality and a unique consumer design aesthetic.
The site’s investor relations section includes a wealth of information and tools for both institutional and private investors, including share price graphs, total shareholder return and RNS feeds. The site is also the first point of call for global media, with press releases, news feeds and both image and video libraries.
Ping An and GAMELACP Vision 2010 AwardsSilver and Bronze
MerchantCantos has won two awards at the LACP 2010 Vision Awards – the world’s largest annual report competition – for its work on GAME and Ping An’s annual reports.
More than 5,000 entries were reviewed at this year’s awards, which recognise excellence on the development of annual reports for the past fiscal year across a broad range of industries and organisational sizes across the world.
Ping An was awarded silver for its report, with judges describing it as a ‘very elegant report’ with an ‘excellent design concept and application’. GAME took home a bronze award with feedback citing its cover as ‘superb’ and its overall creativity ‘outstanding’. Both reports were congratulated for their excellent clarity in communicating their key messages and were classified as being among the best annual reports within their respective sectors.
New LookIR Best Practice Awards Award for the best annual report by an unlisted entity
Merchant has won the award for the best annual report by an unlisted entity for its work on New Look’s annual report and accounts at the IR Society Best Practice Awards, recognising best practice in investor communications.
Privately-owned New Look wanted a best in class annual report, showcasing both print and online versions to a wide audience. Merchant developed a ‘New Look in 10’ facts and figures booklet for the front of the report to provide readers with a quick snapshot and overview of key highlights, clearly and concisely explaining the key differentiators and growth drivers of the business.
Merchant also advised the group on how to introduce some best practice approaches to the report, including an in-depth market report and detailed strategy section. The online version used video content, such as CEO interviews, film clips, links to New Look TV on YouTube, and video insights into some of the stores.
O3b NetworksDigital Impact Awards 2010Winner: Best use of digital in a change or brand transformation situation
Merchant has won the gold medal for ‘Best use of digital in a change or brand transformation situation’ for its work on O3b Networks’ corporate website at the first ever Digital Impact Awards, established by Communicate Magazine in celebration of the best in digital stakeholder communications.
O3b Networks is a next generation satellite network, created to provide broadband internet to emerging markets – ‘the other 3 billion’, hence O3b. Merchant was brought on board to redesign and build a new corporate website, creating a new look and feel that would distinguish O3b from its peer group, while appealing to both investors and employees.
With only a logo and no other structured brand guidelines or marketing collateral in place, Merchant worked with the management team based in Dubai, Nigeria and the US to deliver a new website, incorporating rich media and video within six weeks of the brief – and one week before the deadline.
The result was so well received that the brand was replicated across all of O3b’s literature and online presences. Merchant has since been asked to deliver a range of new literature, advertising and additional video content following the success of the new website.
Ping AnARC Awards / LACP Vision Awards / International Business Awards
Following on from the success of the award-winning Ping An 2008 report, Merchant has followed up with a triple award-winning 2009 annual report for the Chinese financial service group. The design focused on extending the visual language of the 2008 report and conveys a sense of Chinese cultural heritage within a contemporary international context.
Recognition has been received by the International ARC Awards, the LACP Vision Awards and, for the second year running, the International Business Awards.
LadbrokesPricewaterhouseCoopers Building Public Trust AwardsWinner: Best Sustainability Reporting in the FTSE 250
Merchant is delighted to announce that its client LadbrokesPLC has won the Best Sustainability Reporting in the FTSE 250 award at the PricewaterhouseCoopers Building Public Trust Awards in London. Merchant has designed and produced the Corporate Responsibility Report for the last four years. For more information, please access the Building Public Trust Awards website here.
Ping AnInternational Business Awards 2009Winner: Best Annual Report
Ping An is one of China's largest insurance companies. Based in Shenzhen, it wanted a more international approach to its annual report – while retaining its traditional Chinese roots. Merchant advised on international best practice and produced a design based on traditional Chinese watercolour paintings. The International Business Award recognises the quality of the design and structure, and the desire of Ping An to communicate with an international audience.
