The Corporate & Financial Awards, celebrating excellence in all aspects of city communication, has opened for entries for its 2012 event.

With creativity, technology and best practice moving at such a fast pace, it is difficult for organisations to know where excellence in communications lies. Communicate magazine’s Corporate & Financial Awards programme is the only true benchmark of companies’ communication with the City and its influencers.

The Awards programme is open to entries from in-house communications professionals and their counsel for their communications strategies, campaigns or executions launched or carried out between April 2010 and December 2011. The categories allow celebration of specific communications incidents, communication strategies and teams of people.

The awards will be judged by a cross-section of experienced in-house practitioners, communication agency directors, analysts and business and financial journalists.

The awards are organised by Communicate magazine. Andrew Thomas, publisher said ‘We are very excited to launch the Corporate & Financial Awards. The awards programme will act as an industry-wide benchmark, as well as provide an opportunity to give teams the recognition they deserve.’