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The Shareholder Communications team have just won an award to recognise our work in understanding and addressing our environmental impact. We won the 'Minimising Your Environmental Impact' award for our approach to paper-saving shareholder communications.
This year we saved 11 tonnes of paper alone, by reducing the number of shareholders who receive full printed packs and increasing the traffic to our website. With around 1.5 million shareholders, in over 50 countries around the world, we are always looking for new and innovative ways to reduce the amount of paper we print and we are pleased to receive recognition for what we have achieved.
The International ARC Awards recognise the world's best annual reports. This year's competition was the largest ever - with over two thousand entries from 28 countries around the world. We were awarded the International Arc bronze award for our online HTML Annual Report and Accounts. This year was the first time we produced an online version of our Annual Report and Accounts. This is a good award for us to receive, as it shows that we are giving our shareholders alternative ways to get the information they need.
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As part of our mission to cut paper use, we're encouraging shareholders to give us their email addresses.
To get the campaign growing, we joined forces with Trees for Life - a registered charity working to restore the Caledonian Forest. With a seedling for the first 100,000 email addresses we received during our demutualisation campaign, we paid for 100,000 new trees. And our Shareholder News campaign at the end of last year boosted our donation to £150,000 - that's a total of 150,000 seedlings.
Trees for Life has planted 54,178 trees already, with more to come this autumn.
In October, Group Secretariat won two awards at the ICSA Awards 2007:
To find out more about the awards, visit the ICSA website.
On 10 July we awarded shareholders bonus shares - one for every 20 eligible shares they'd held continuously from the date of flotation to 10 July 2007. We recently sent out personalised bonus share statements or share certificates to all 1.5 million of these shareholders. May 2007
On 31 May, Standard Life plc shareholders received their first dividend payment of 5.4p per share - covering the time from flotation to 31 December 2006. 30% of shareholders chose to re-invest their dividends and buy more Standard Life shares rather than receive cash - an impressive achievement compared to the industry average of just 5%.
We also collected bank details from almost 600,000 shareholders. This means instead of paying by cheque we can pay dividends directly into bank accounts - which is much faster and easier for our shareholders.
Our first interim dividend of 3.8p per share will be paid on 30 November 2007.
Standard Life plc held its first Annual General Meeting as a listed company on 29 May. Over 300,000 of our shareholders voted in person, online or by post. All resolutions were successfully passed and the AGM finished on a forward-looking note with our new Chairman, Gerry Grimstone, taking over from Sir Brian Stewart.
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