NEW YORK, March 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Public companies are now in "annual report season."  To help public companies be "smart shoppers," Vintage Filings, a division of PR Newswire, explains industry vocabulary and offers short videos illustrating the different types of annual reports.

To understand printing jargon for annual reports, read this blog post:
http://irblog.prnewswire.com/2014/03/07/annual-report-shopping-vocabulary-and-video-examples/

To view video examples of annual reports, go to this post:
http://irblog.prnewswire.com/2014/03/20/video-snippets-more-help-shopping-the-different-styles-of-annual-report/

The style and scope of hardcopy annual reports varies: there is no single "best practice." Budget, quantity and shareholder expectations should drive your process and production.

About Vintage Filings
PR Newswire's Vintage Filings division is a full-service financial filing and printing firm and a leading partner for all your XBRL filing needs. With more than 4,500 public company clients, Vintage is one of the fastest growing compliance firms nationwide. Vintage partners with its clients to provide the knowledge and service necessary to meet the SEC's ever-changing filing regulations. Vintage Filings provides high-quality, cost-effective compliance filings and production services, including EDGAR Filings, typesetting, XBRL tagging, section 16 filings, investment management services, drafting sessions, virtual data rooms (VDR) and more.

About PR Newswire
PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) 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 60 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 a UBM plc company.

Media Contact:
Bradley H. Smith
Director of Marketing, IR and Compliance Services
PR Newswire & Vintage Filings
+1 201.947.7157 bradley.smith@prnewswire.com

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