As World Finance has drawn up the winners of the Corporate Governance Awards 2012, it’s apparent that some businesses have thought that tough financial conditions mean they can slacken their standards. This is a short-lived illusion that has caught out ...

Despite being headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Pacific Rubiales Energy’s operations concentrate mainly in Colombia, and to a lesser extent, in Peru and Guatemala. In Colombia, the largest field is Rubiales, in the Llanos Orientales region, in partne...

Founded in 1990, UTI is one of the greatest and most innovative companies in Romania. Innovation and investment in research and development (R&D) have been the engines that led to the constant and organic growth of the company. Focused on four industr...

Eskom Holdings SOC Limited is a power utility that is wholly owned by the South African government and conducts its business within a highly regulated environment. The company has a unitary board structure with a majority of independent, non-executive dir...

Corporate governance being an essential part of public company management is an idea that only became a priority for companues and investors in the Brazilian capital markets in the last decade. At Ultrapar, however, thirty years ago, in the early 1980s, i...

Young Italian engineer Giovanni Battista Pirelli established Pirelli & C. in Milan in 1872, opening the company’s first plant for the manufacture of rubber articles the following year. A century and a half later, Pirelli is the world’s fifth-bigge...

Kesko is a highly-valued listed company and has around 2,000 stores engaged in chain operations in eight countries. More than one million customers shop at K-stores every day. Established in 1940, Kesko has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock ...

Interview with Ignacio S. Galán, Chairman and CEO, Iberdrola At Iberdrola, we have adopted a two-pronged approach to the challenge of corporate governance. This involves the continuous improvement in internal rules and practices, and maximum transpare...

Ferreyros believes in good corporate governance practices and regularly participates in events that allow it to share its own experiences. The aim is to motivate other companies to continue working on the application of these principles that in turn will ...

Inapa’s roots go back to 1965 when it was incorporated as a paper producer. The company was the first large-scale paper mill in Portugal and remained a paper producer until February 2000 when, after selling its industrial assets, it decided to focus on ...