IR Awards

​​​​​​​#1 Overall: Deutsche Telekom. Leading among all 1,652 participating publicly listed companies. The gap to #2 widened by +15% compared with the previous year.

#2 CEO: Tim Höttges, Chair of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom

#3 CFO: Thomas Dannenfeldt, Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Telekom

#1 IR Professional: Stephan Eger. Head of Investor Relations at Deutsche Telekom. Best IR professional among 5,751 participants.

• For the first time ever: Deutsche Telekom is the first company to win both awards, "Leading company for Investor Relations" and "Leading Investor Relations Professional", together.
• For the first time ever: Deutsche Telekom is the first company to achieve the top ranking for Germany in all 4 categories (overall, CEO, CFO, IR professional).

​​​​​​​#1 Overall: Deutsche Telekom. Leading among all 1,652 participating publicly listed companies. The gap to #2 widened by +15% compared with the previous year.

#2 CEO: Tim Höttges, Chair of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom

#3 CFO: Thomas Dannenfeldt, Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Telekom

#1 IR Professional: Stephan Eger. Head of Investor Relations at Deutsche Telekom. Best IR professional among 5,751 participants.

Analysts and investors were surveyed from October through December 2014 on how they assess the investor relations work of publicly listed European companies. The results were published in March 2015.

• Best CEO: Timotheus Höttges: 1st place (investors) and 1st place (analysts)
• Best IR Professional in the Telco Sector: Stephan Eger, 1st place (investors)
• Best CFO: Thomas Dannenfeldt: 2nd place (analysts)
• Best IR Team in the Telco Sector: 2nd place (analysts) and 3rd place (investors)

You can find more information about Institutional Investor here.

#1 Investor Relations (DAX30): Deutsche Telekom

#1 IR Professional (DAX30): Stephan Eger, Head of Investor Relations at Deutsche Telekom

#3 Fixed-Income IR: Deutsche Telekom

DIRK (German Investor Relations Association) recognized Deutsche Telekom's investor relations quality as the best in Germany.

The study analyzes the content of forecast reporting and retrospective forecast accuracy in the 2014 annual reports.

• Transparency: High - "Deutsche Telekom was the only company to meet all requirements."
• Forecast accuracy: Forecast met - "The key criterion for meeting the requirement is, above all, adhering to the forecast consolidated result"

Link to the press conference transcript
Study (PDF, 2.8 MB)

Deutsche Telekom ranks No. 1 in the DAX category and in the overall competition rankings for the "Best Annual Report."

According to the academic review team, the key factor behind this top ranking was the precise information in Deutsche Telekom's management report.

Link to the article on bilanz-magazin.de

Analysts and investors were surveyed from March through May 2014 on how they assess the investor relations activities of European listed companies. The results were published in June 2014.

Best Investor Relations Team:

• Within the telecommunications industry: 1st place in Europe
• Across all industries: 1st place in Europe and 1st place in Germany

Best Chief Executive Officer:

• Within the telecommunications industry: Tim Höttges ranked 1st in Europe

Best Investor Relations Manager:

• Within the telecommunications industry: Stephan Eger ranked 2nd

You can find further information about Extel here.

• Best IR work (DAX30): 1st place

You can find further information about DIRK here.

Deutsche Telekom’s Annual Report received multiple honors at the International Annual Report Competition (ARC):

• best report in the particularly important ‚Financial Data‘ category (GRAND & Gold Award)

The ARC is an internationally respected competition and is often referred to as the ‚Academy Awards for annual reports.‘

You can find more information about the ARC here.

Deutsche Telekom's Annual Report received recognition at the LACP 2013 Vision Awards:

• Award in the telecommunications category (Gold Award)

The call for entries for the LACP 2013 Vision Awards Annual Report Competition attracted the largest number of annual report submissions ever. Nearly 1,000 companies from two dozen countries took part in this year's event.

You can find more information about the LACP 2013 Vision Award here.

Deutsche Telekom's annual report was recognized by Reportwatch:

• second-best German report (rated: A- / Very good)

Reportwatch is the brand for evaluating annual reports. Each year, the results are included in the "Annual Report on Annual Reports" competition to select and recognize the 400 best annual reports.

You can find more information about Reportwatch's "Annual Report on Annual Reports 2014" here.

Analysts and investors were surveyed from October through December 2013 on how they assess the Investor Relations activities of publicly listed European companies. The results were published in March 2014.

• Best IR Team in the Telco Sector: 1st place (analysts)
• Best IR Professional in the Telco Sector: Stephan Eger, 2nd place (investors)
• Best CEO: René Obermann, 2nd place (investors) and 3rd place (analysts)
• Best CFO: Timotheus Höttges, 1st place (analysts) and 2nd place (investors)

You can find more information about Institutional Investor here.

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In an assessment of the quality of the outlooks in the 2012 annual reports of all DAX30 companies, Deutsche Telekom was one of six top performers. Deutsche Telekom’s outlook was rated as having ‘high transparency’ and highlighted as a positive example. This places Deutsche Telekom ahead of 17 companies rated ‘medium transparency’ and another six companies rated ‘low transparency.’ The analysis was conducted by Krichhoff Consult in collaboration with the Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz.

Deutsche Telekom's annual report received multiple awards at the International Annual Report Competition (ARC):

• best report among all 2,260 submissions from 34 countries in the particularly important ‘Financial Data’ category (GRAND & Gold Award)
• best report from Germany (GRAND Award)
• outstanding design in “Interior Design” and “Printing & Production” (Gold & Bronze Award)

ARC is the world's most prestigious international competition and is often referred to as the ‘Academy Awards for annual reports.’

You can find more information about ARC here.

Analysts and investors were surveyed from March through May 2013 on how they assess the Investor Relations activities of publicly listed European companies. The results were published in June 2013.

Best Investor Relations Team:

• Within the telecommunications sector: 2nd place in Europe
• Across all sectors: 7th place in Europe and 3rd place in Germany

Best Chief Executive Officer:

• Within the telecommunications sector: René Obermann in 2nd place in Europe
• Across all sectors: René Obermann in 3rd place in Europe and 1st place in Germany

Best Chief Financial Officer:

• Within the telecommunications sector: Timotheus Höttges in 1st place
• Across all sectors: Timotheus Höttges in 2nd place in Europe and 1st place in Germany

Best Investor Relations Manager:

• Within the telecommunications sector: Stephan Eger in 1st place
• Across all sectors: Stephan Eger in 2nd place in Europe and 2nd place in Germany

You can find more information about Extel here.

• Best IR work (DAX): 3rd place
• Best IR Professional (DAX): Stephan Eger, 2nd place
• Communication with debt investors (DAX): 2nd place

You can find more information about DIRK here.