MTN Group is pleased to announce that we have been recognised in two prestigious awards surveys in the past week, acknowledging our ongoing work to engage with capital markets stakeholders.

Our integrated annual report has once again been recognised in the ‘Excellent’ category at the 2024 EY Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards, placing MTN amongst the top 24 JSE-listed companies. The survey evaluates the quality of integrated reporting and how companies convey their value creation journey to investors and other stakeholders.

Additionally, MTN was ranked first in eight categories for the telecoms, media and tech (TMT) sector in the 2024 Extel Developed Europe and EMEA Executive Team Awards, in a survey of leading global investment professionals.

The accolades, which recognise the best-rated Investor Relations (IR) and Executive teams, are based on more than 20 qualitative performance metrics in a survey of leading capital market stakeholders. Extel (formerly Institutional Investor Research) surveyed more than 2 000 buy-side and sell-side professionals, with more than 2 700 individuals from more than 1 300 companies nominated.

In our region (Europe, Middle East and Africa – EMEA), about 500 IR professionals and C-suite members from more than 330 companies were surveyed by over 400 investment professionals. The vote count for Emerging EMEA was up by a quarter from the previous year, highlighting the growing interest in providing independent feedback on corporate activities and engagement with the capital markets.

MTN was ranked first in all eight EMEA-TMT categories by shareholders/ investors and second on a combined basis that includes the sell-side. The categories are: Best CEO; Best CFO; Best IR Professional; Best IR Team;  Best IR Program; Best ESG Program; Best Investor/Analyst Day; and Best Company Board.

“One of MTN’s strategic priorities is to ‘create shared value’. Key to this is our engagement with stakeholders, including the investment community. We’re grateful for the acknowledgement of MTN’s efforts to engage transparently and consistently with our capital market stakeholders,” said MTN Group CFO Tsholofelo Molefe, adding: “Kudos to our IR team, which spearheads our efforts with the capital markets and continues to raise the bar in an industry where standards are high and keep getting better year after year.”

Thato Motlanthe, Acting Chief Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Officer and Executive for Investor Relations, MTN Group added, “We appreciate the recognition of our team’s commitment to continuous improvement and meeting the ever-evolving needs of the investment community and broader stakeholders. In driving this purpose, we deeply value the collaboration fostered with our leadership and colleagues as well as the enduring partnership and support of our stakeholders.”

In the Extel awards, MTN was also listed among the ‘Most Honored Companies’ survey for the EMEA region, placing 2^nd* in the TMT sector and within the top 10^* overall, out of more than 330 companies.

MTN remains committed to maintaining high standards in our endeavours to serve the needs of our investment community stakeholders.