LUG establishes new communication standards at NewConnect

12 July 2013

LUG S.A. implemented a new Internet tool for communication with the investors. The annual online report 2012 is an innovative solution on the NewConnect market, confirming positive evolution of the communication standards on the alternative market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

12 July 2013 is the date of the premiere of the first annual online report on the NewConnect market, which was granted available by LUG S.A. to its investors and stockholders, within the framework of its open dialogue policy.

“We wish to contribute to improvement of the communication standards for the investors on the NewConnect market. We are inspired by the best companies on the Polish market and transfer the ideas to the Alternative Trading System to show that it also contains entities deserving attention of the investors. Qualification of LUG for the NewConnect Lead segment and the NCIndex30, associating the most liquid and transparent companies, is an additional motivation” explains Ryszard Wtorkowski, Chairman of the Management Board of LUG S.A.

LUG emphasises reliable and transparent communication with the capital market, taking care among others about technical and substantive values of its investor relation services at www.lug.com.pl. Positive results of those activities were appreciated twice by the competition commission of the Polish Association of Listed Companies, which awarded the Company with the Golden Website prize in 2009 and 2013 in the category of the NewConnect market companies. Last autumn, LUG launched the knowledge centre devoted among others to the conducted consolidation of the Issuer’s shares and implemented the interactive results centre in the first quarter of 2013. This time, LUG went a step further and set new standards in the area of communication on the alternative market.

“The Internet dynamically entered all domains of our life, revolutionising methods and channels of communication. Companies listed on the Stock Exchange should adjust their communication policy to the new reality and expectations of the investors, reaching for modern tools designated for communication with the stakeholders. The annual online report is one of such tools - constituting much more comfortable form of content presentation for the receivers than the “classic PDF file”. Although currently only a few companies decided to use this solution, I really hope that it will be more popular in the nearest future” says Mirosław Kachniewski, Chairman of the Polish Association of Listed Companies.

The annual online reports are very popular abroad, but in Poland those tools are still developing, although the largest players of the Polish capital market, mainly the Warsaw Stock Exchange, already offer them to their investors and stockholders. However, it is still a novelty on the NewConnect market.

“We are happy that the project of the Annual Online Report developed in cooperation with Message constitutes another element of the communication strategy of the LUG company. Presentation of the annual summary in this form has been implemented for the first time for the needs of a company listed at the NewConnect market. We believe that it is going to help to establish new standards of dialogue with the investors” summarises Bartosz Sawulski from Message Group.

The online report of the LUG company constitutes a summary of the most important events in 2012 from the financial and operating perspective. Apart from the most important events from the previous year, the Issuer prepared extensive information about the business surrounding, which presents the perspectives of the lighting branch in a comprehensive graphic form. While presenting the results, LUG used the results centre, launched at the beginning of 2013, which allows to generate interactive charts and download the data in an Excel file. The projection of the company development is also an inseparable element, presented in the part devoted to the development strategy of the LUG S.A. Capital Group for the years 2013-2016. Another improvement for the users is the Download Centre, which ensures quick access to the reports in PDF version.