Location: Sāo Paulo, BRAZIL
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013
in association with PR Newswire


Extensive independent research is at the foundation of our awards. Our research team will canvass more than 250 analysts and investors to uncover the standout IR professionals in Brazil. This research forms the basis for the awards and one of the best benchmarks for IR in the region.
But it's not all facts and figures
The IR Magazine Brazil Awards are a great opportunity to network with your peers, entertain your clients and, above all, have some fun while celebrating the IR community's successes.
BNY Mellon acts as depositary for more than 2,500 American and global depositary receipt programs, acting in partnership with leading companies from 65 countries. BNY Mellon is committed to helping securities issuers access the world's rapidly evolving financial markets and delivers a comprehensive suite of depositary receipt services.
Learn more at www.bnymellon.com/dr.
BNY Mellon is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 36 countries and serving more than 100 markets. BNY Mellon is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, offering superior investment management and investment services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has $25.8 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.26 trillion in assets under management, services $11.8 trillion in outstanding debt and processes global payments averaging $1.5 trillion per day. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK).
Learn more at www.bnymellon.com or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon.
A Bloomberg é a fonte de informações mais confiável do mundo para pessoas de negócios e profissionais financeiros. A Bloomberg combina tecnologia inovadora com inigualáveis ferramentas analíticas, dados, notícias e capacidade de distribuição, para oferecer informações essenciais através do serviço BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL ® e plataformas de multimídia. Os serviços de mídia da Bloomberg consistem em rede de televisão, rádio, digital e impressa, fazendo da Bloomberg uma das maiores organizações de notícias do mundo com mais de 2.300 profissionais da área de notícias e multimídia em 146 escritórios em 72 países.
About BM&FBOVESPA
BM&FBOVESPA is a Brazilian company, created in 2008, through the integration between the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo) and the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange (Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros).
It is the most important Brazilian institution to intermediate equity market transactions and the only securities, commodities and futures exchange in Brazil. BM&FBOVESPA further acts as a driver for the Brazilian capital markets.
Visit www.bmfbovespa.com.br for more information.
A Chorus Call é parte de um grupo com sólida atuação no mercado mundial oferecendo soluções de conectividade desde 1993.
O grupo tem sede na Pensilvânia, Estados Unidos, e unidades de negócios na África do Sul, Alemanha, Austrália, Brasil, Canadá, Grécia, Índia, Itália e Suíça.
No Brasil, a Chorus Call está presente em São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro para atender à demanda de Audioconferência, Videoconferência, Webcasting, Transmissão de Eventos e Ferramentas Colaborativas com qualidade, agilidade e customização.
Com tecnologia desenvolvida pela Compunetix, empresa do grupo que atua há mais de 40 anos no mercado global, a Chorus Call inova constantemente para manter a liderança e referência no mercado.
About Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube:www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://new.citi.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi
Citi Depositary Receipt Services is a leader in bringing quality issuers to global capital markets and in promoting Depositary Receipts (DRs) as an effective capital markets tool. Citi began offering DRs in 1928 and today is widely recognized for providing companies with access to the powerful global platform Citi has to offer. For more information on Citi Depositary Receipt Services, visit www.citi.com/dr.
O Conference Call Wittel atua no Brasil prestando serviços de áudio-conferência, ferramentas de colaboração online e vídeo conferência, com atendimento personalizado e bilíngue, qualidade, agilidade e alta disponibilidade de linhas. Com tecnologia de ponta e forte presença nos segmentos de finanças, jurídico, indústrias, associações, empresas de varejo, instituições de ensino entre outros.
O Conference Call Wittel é uma empresa da Wittel Comunicações, líder no fornecimento de soluções, com atuação em toda América Latina. A Wittel oferece ferramentas de Soluções de Relacionamento e Eficiência, Produtividade e Qualidade, Convergência, Central de Colaboração on-line, Trading Floor, Gestão de Projetos e Serviços Profissionais, fornecendo serviços, consultoria de processos operacionais e de negócios, implantação de estruturas de business intelligence, além da implantação e manutenção de suas soluções. Com escritórios em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Santiago – Chile a Wittel possui equipe treinada e capacitada para atender às necessidades de seus clientes.
Established in Brazil in 1911 to support foreign trade with Germany, Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank that handles commercial and investment portfolios, providing high-quality services in debt capital markets and M&A, as well as a wide portfolio of treasury products, cash management, custody and agent services, documentary credit and trade finance, and brokerage services. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. It is also a leading depositary bank managing more than 1,000 DR programs, and was the first depositary bank to handle an exchange offer in Canada for a Brazilian company with a simultaneous GDR listing in Toronto.
A Luz Publicidade especializou-se em publicações legais, balanços, atas, avisos aos acionistas, underwriting e demais referente a Lei das Sociedades Anônimas.
A demora para um anúncio ser veiculado pelo Diário Oficial chegava até 6 meses, sendo o cliente obrigado a acompanhar o jornal diariamente para checar se a sua matéria havia sido publicada. Por esta razão as agências e os corretores autônomos, só autorizavam as publicações para os jornais particulares. A Luz passou então a autorizar também o Diário Oficial, antecipando o pagamento, faturando os anúncios, acompanhando e enviando gratuitamente as folhas das publicações para os clientes. Além disso, começou a enviar os anúncios para o Diário Oficial em clichê, o que reduziu o prazo de publicação para até 3 dias. Este procedimento, trouxe uma grande tranqüilidade para os clientes, que se viam desobrigados a comprar e checar diariamente este jornal, ficando a tarefa totalmente a cargo da agência.
A Media Group é uma agência de comunicação corporativa focada no mercado de capitais e na comunicação estratégica da sustentabilidade. Atendendo grandes empresas, ela é constituída por profissionais especializados em diversas áreas, que trabalham de maneira integrada. Provendo desde a criação do conteúdo até a sua materialização em materiais impressos ou internet, tudo feito em um só lugar, sempre com o objetivo de criar valor através da comunicação.
Conheça o nosso trabalho no site: www.mediagroup.com.br
OTC Markets group operates open, transparent and connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 US and global securities. Through our OTC Link® ATS, we directly link a diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services for a wide spectrum of securities. We organize these securities into marketplaces to better inform investors of opportunities and risks:
OTCQX® ‒ the intelligent marketplace for the best OTC companies
OTCQB® ‒ the venture marketplace
OTC Pink® ‒ the open marketplace.
Our data-driven platform enables investors to easily trade through the broker of their choice at the best possible price, and empowers a broad range of companies to improve the quality and availability of information for their investors. To learn more about how we create better informed and more efficient financial marketplaces, please visit www.otcmarkets.com.
Founded in 1953, Petrobras is a publicly traded corporation operating in an integrated manner in the following segments of the oil, gas, and energy industry: exploration and production; downstream, marketing, transportation and petrochemicals; distribution; natural gas, energy and biofuels. Acknowledged as the leader in deep and ultra-deep water exploration and production, Petrobras is currently the world’s fifth largest energy company (source: PFC Energy, 2011).
PR Newswire is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 56 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content – from rich media to online video to multimedia – and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is an UBM plc company.
Revista RI, a Brazilian investor relations magazine, was launched in March 1998, and in its 15 years of uninterrupted monthly issues is considered the leading Brazilian publication for financial and IR professionals in the investment market. With a monthly circulation of more than 10,000 copies, the publication is distributed to directors and executives of finance and investor relations in more than 480 public Brazilian corporations. The magazine is widely read by institutional investors, financial analysts and investment professionals involved in the leading institutions of the financial capital markets. Its circulation and distribution make Revista RI a presence in the most important sectors of the Brazilian economy, representing an indispensable reference point for those responsible for the investment decisions made in Brazil. Please see our website: www.revistari.com.br.
RIWeb is a Brazilian investor relations technology leader. RIWeb developed the first cloud-based software for managing investor relations areas with its technology solutions for IR sites, distribution of releases and material facts, online annual reports, share base management and CRM systems. In addition to technology-related products, RIWeb offers a set of essential services for publicly listed companies such as translation, conference call coordination and other items of support.
Vale is a global leader in mining, as well as a global leader in sustainable value creation. We produce iron ore, nickel, copper, fertilizer nutrients and other important minerals and metals that are essential in people’s lives. With a market capital over US$ 170 billion, Vale’s shares are traded on the NYSE, BM&F BOVESPA, Euronext Paris and HKEx.
Based on market capitalization, Vale is one of the largest metals and mining companies in the world and the largest in the Americas. It is the world’s largest producer of iron ore and iron ore pellets and the world’s second-largest producer of nickel. Vale also produces manganese ore, ferro-alloys, coal, copper, platinum group metals ('PGMs'), gold, silver, cobalt and potash, phosphates and other fertilizer nutrients. To support its growth strategy, Vale is engaged in mineral exploration efforts in 15 countries around the globe. It operates large logistics systems in Brazil and other regions of the world, including railroads, maritime terminals and ports, which are integrated with its mining operations. In addition, Vale has a portfolio of maritime freight assets to transport iron ore. Directly and through affiliates and joint ventures, it also has investments in energy and steel businesses.
These days, Valor has 171,000 readers on a daily basis, and a paid circulation of 58,524 copies daily. Its online version reaches 596,414 unique visitors and has 3,339,710 page views per month. Beyond Valor Online, readers can access the newspaper content using a cellphone through a mobile site. Valor also has apps for the iPhone, BlackBerry and iPad.
A 2010 survey carried out by Meio & Mensagem, a media specialist publication, reveals for the second consecutive year that Valor Economico is regarded as the third-most respected newspaper in Brazil, following O Estado de São Paulo and Folha de São Paulo.