30% of investors never read their prospectus.

Source Investment Company Institute.

80% think reading a prospectus is like eating their vegetables.

Source ICI – 80% of investors read some, very little or do not read the prospectus.

92% of Vegetables find that insulting.

Recent survey of legumes and leafy greens.

Radishes don’t mind.

Source: International Radish Council.

Shareholder Communications

are not as tasty as vegetables.

Have you ever tasted a proxy?

They taste more like carbon

spread on dead trees.

According to Pat McGrew, Kodak’s Director of Industry Marketing who apparently tests that sort of thing.

Because that’s what they are.

Yuck!

If you were a Forest you would be afraid of Shareholder Communications.

Not that kind of Forest!

This kind of Forest!

98.5% of trees object to being turned into pulp.

Research margin of error plus or minus 1.5%

Run Forest. Run!

It’s time to think about the

environment, the

bottom line and your

shareholders.And perhaps, occasionally, radishes.

‘Cause there’s a revolution coming. . .

Revenge of the Trees?No!

A Revolution . . .In how companies

communicate

with Shareholders.

Shareholder communications

used to be a monologue.

A very BORING monologue…

It should be a

conversation.

A highly regulated conversation.

No, our lawyers didn’t make us say that.

There’s a lot to talk about.Say on Pay. Sustainability. Corporate Performance. Majority Voting. Proxy Access. Your brand. P8 Group. Investor Relations. Governance. Election of Officers. Voting Records. Fund Expenses. Reputation Risk. What’s with that hair style?

People are talking.Even people at public companies.

Best Buy, CGI, Chevron, Cisco, Dell, EMC Corp, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Oracle, Microsoft, NASDAQ QMX, Novartis, Pitney Bowes, Proctor & Gamble, Putnam Funds, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch Shell, Sun, Time Warner, UPS all have senior executives on Twitter.

Companies are using websites, social media, e-presentment, virtual meetings, mobile data, XBRL and sustainable print to improve their shareholder communications.

It’s Revolutionary!And highly effective.

Learn to revolutionize your shareholder communications by making them more Effective, Efficient and Sustainable.

Join us!Shareholder Communications SymposiumOnline

BroadridgeBNY Mellon

Corporate InsightCarbon Disclosure Project

Compliance WeekDoubleSpeak

DST OutputEthos Business Law

Exelon CorpFidelity Investments

Firehouse CommunicationsIllinois Tool Works

Institute for Corporate ProductivityIntel Corp

Insight ForumsMcDonald’s

Merrill CorpNational Investor Relations Institute

NewRiverVintage Filings

Startup ArmyStrategic Corporate Advocates

Sustainable Endowments InstituteThe Plain Language Group

Wells Fargo Funds

And more people are joining the conversation every day!

www.SCS-Central.com

No Radishes were harmed in the

making of this presentation.

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