Smart Media – The Annual Report Company, continued its exceptional performance on the world stage with outstanding results at the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) Vision Awards 2010. 

The Company, whose businesses span 6 countries – including Sri Lanka, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Hong Kong, announced this at an event to felicitate and recognise their Sri Lankan clients, whose latest annual reports won awards at the LACP Vision Awards. Smart Media also announced that it had won the Gold Award for the worldwide agency of the year for annual reports. The Chief Guest for the evening was Ajith Nivard Cabraal, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, who gave away the awards.

Several Sri Lankan companies brought honour to the country by winning a number of awards including 5 Bronze Awards, 4 Silver Awards, 4 Gold Awards and 3 Platinum Awards in their respective sectors. In addition these companies had clinched 3 Special Achievement Awards at an Asia Pacific regional level competition. The National Savings Bank Annual Report achieved international recognition by clinching a Special Achievement Award across all sectors.

Five companies’ annual reports were ranked among the top 50 annual reports in the Asia Pacific region across all sectors.  They are: Nations Trust Bank at No. 49, LOLC at No. 47, Commercial Bank at No. 24, Diesel & Motor Engineering at No. 16 and National Savings Bank at No. 2. Three were ranked among the top 100 annual reports in the World across all sectors. They are:  Commercial Bank at No. 91, Diesel & Motor Engineering at No.62, and National Savings Bank at No. 04.  

It was noted that these annual reports were rubbing shoulders with regional and international heavyweights such as Hyundai of Korea, Kia Motors of Korea, China Telecom, Panasonic Corporation, Korean Air, Korea Exchange Bank, Bank of China, Nippon Television Network, the U.S Department of State, Bayer AG and Thompson Reuters among other notable corporate players.