25/11/2008

Join In wins H&H Webranking Special Award

Indesit Company’s recruitment portal is judged “of all Italian listed companies’ corporate websites, the most original solution”.

Milan, 25th November 2008 – Indesit Company collected a prestigious special award today at the 5th “Italian Hallvarsson & Halvarsson Webranking Awards”, held in collaboration with Il Corriere della Sera. H&H, a firm that analyses the online financial communication of companies listed on the Milan stock exchange, gave the Group headed by Vittorio Merloni the Special Award for its “Join In” jonline recruitment and employer branding portal. Join In, available on the Company’s website www.indesitcompany.com , was specifically designed to dialogue with young graduates and talents in search of new professional challenges. The Commendable Website Initiative jury explained that they found Join In was “the most original solution seen amongst the websites of 83 major companies listed on the Milan stock exchange. Join In not only helps create closer ties with candidates but also makes the recruitment process more stimulating and interactive”.
The award is an endorsement of Join In, a highly successful, new-generation communication channel capable of identifying the potential candidates whose ethical profiles come closest to Indesit Company’s mission and values. Candidates are invited to select ethical characteristics (using a multi-choice system) corresponding to Indesit Company values (innovative, respectful, ambitious, in touch, genuine). The resulting profiles are stored by Join In and tagged to candidates’ CVs and data records for consultation at the interview stage.
The H&H Webranking is produced every year on the basis of input from 360 operators, including investors, analysts and journalists, throughout Europe. Corporate websites (English language versions) are put through an assessment protocol with 139 criteria, a third of which relate to financial information. In addition to the official ranking, H&H assign a number of Special Awards to companies that excel in a given field or which, like Indesit Company, develop initiatives that go beyond the basic requisites for inclusion in the Webranking.

This was the latest of several awards collected by Indesit Company over the years for its commitment to quality and transparency in its communication, including a Financial Reporting and Communication Oscar in 2001, a Special Oscar for online Financial Communication in 2002, a 1st place in the H&H Webranking in 2003, a Corporate Governance Oscar in 2007 and a European Excellence Award in 2008 for Insight, judged the most innovative intranet in Europe. Indesit Company is Europe’s second largest manufacturer of household appliances by market share and the world’s fifth. Founded in 1975 by the current chairman Vittorio Merloni and listed on the Milan stock exchange since 1987, the Group posted sales of over €3.4 billion in 2007, having turned out around 16 million appliances. Indesit, Hotpoint-Ariston and Scholtès are the Group’s main brands. Indesit Company operates through 17 production facilities and 24 commercial branches worldwide and employs over 17,000 people.


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Press Office
Federico Ziller, phone: +39 0732 66 2432, cell. 335 75 55 508
e-mail: federico.ziller@indesit.com
Chiara Iasiuolo, phone: +39 0732 66 2048, cell. 334 66 60 247
e-mail: chiara.iasiuolo@indesit.com