12 Month At-a-Glance Calendar for Investor Relations Departments
Useful infographic illustrates "a year in the life" of key shareholder communications tasks

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Vintage, the capital markets, corporate services and institutional & fund services division of PR Newswire, has released its 12 Month At-a-Glance Calendar for Investor Relations Departments.

Click here to download a high resolution PDF: https://irblog.prnewswire.com/2017/01/04/investor-relations-12-months-at-a-glance-sheet/

Bradley H. Smith, Director of Marketing, IR and Compliance Services at PR Newswire & Vintage said the creation of the calendar came from "working with a new client last week, the discussion went from a cheerfully kind 'thank you for the 2017 SEC EDGAR filing calendar' to a subtle 'hey… do you have a calendar for IR, too?' "

Never shrinking down from a client request, Smith immediately went to task – first asking during that meeting what are the key activities needed to be calendared. As you see, the result is a traditional IR to-do list. Also, except for the 10-K and 10-Qs, the events are driven by broad strokes, month by month, rather than exact dates.

Comments:

  • Planning stages certainly vary and overlap i.e. earnings news releases and 10-Qs
  • Updating the IR website once a quarter refers to more holistic updates: text narratives, FAQs, and other non-automated feed
  • Best practices suggest two or three days each quarter for non-deal roadshows in targeted cities
  • Holding a formal Analyst Day in a target city, like NYC, generally aligns with non-deal meetings
  • Proxy materials planning can vary greatly depending on your visual style
  • The NIRI Annual Conference is in June

Happily, the client was grateful for the calendar – they will be sharing it internally as a directional illustration of IR's year.

Click here to download a high resolution PDF of the SEC filing deadline and holiday calendar: http://e.prnewswire.com/Vintage-2017-SEC-calendar1.html

About Vintage
Vintage, a PR Newswire division, is a top-three provider of full-service regulatory compliance and shareholder communications services, delivered across our three practice areas: Capital Markets, Corporate Services and Institutional & Fund Services. Founded in 2002 and acquired by PR Newswire in 2007, Vintage has evolved to become the industry's intelligent value choice. We deliver a flexible balance of people, facilities and technology to ensure that regulatory compliance and shareholder communications processes are efficient, transparent and painless. Services include IPO registrations, transactions, virtual data rooms, EDGAR & XBRL filing, typesetting, financial printing and investor relations websites.

About PR Newswire
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Media Contact:
Bradley H. Smith
Director of Marketing, IR and Compliance Services
PR Newswire & Vintage
+1 201.942.7157
bradley.smith@prnewswire.com

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