Corporate Eye

...compare, compete, excel

Investor

Share charts in accessible formats

Why not provide your share charts for investors in accessible formats?
Halfords accessible share charts
Halfords provide large font charts, and charts for people who are colour blind. Given that many investors must need charts of this nature, this seems like a good and helpful service.

I notice that Serco, who used to be among my favourite examples of companies who did this, because they even included an option for a chart accessible to voice browsers, have now removed all these accessible charting options. I wonder why?

Serco - old share charts
Serco’s accessible charting, dated six or so months ago.
Serco - new share charts
The same page today.

Tell us when your share price changes

Not many companies provide this kind of functionality, but it is useful, enabling companies to push information to its investors and alert them to stock movements.

Although not all investors will be interested in this kind of tool, I’m sure some would be – and perhaps also some financial journalists at key times of the year, or around company transitions.
BAT stock alert
BAT will send an SMS alert twice a day – to registered users – keeping investors up to date.
[Read more…] about Tell us when your share price changes

Northern Rock – crisis management

It would be difficult not to know that there has been a run on a British bank for the first time since the 1860s. Not the kind of historic record one wants to break really … I’m not going to comment on the financials, but I think this is a classic example of using your website to help manage people’s understanding of a major crisis.

Northern Rock - message from CEOI didn’t visit the site for a while (at least partly because there were reported difficulties with the site crashing as a result of the public interest in this episode), but have noticed over the last few days that there are new pages on display. The new first page (a splash page before you can reach the home page) is a message from the CEO, similar if not identical to the full page ad with the same message run in the papers recently.

[Read more…] about Northern Rock – crisis management