For the 5th time in a row relate⁴u managed the Philips Annual report. During the past years Philips has won several awards with their Annual report. This project is always a critical and complicated exercise. Last minute changes in financial information and business decisions put increased pressure on content creators and design agencies.

Recently there has been a clear move and focus towards a high-end web enabled Annual Report, without sacrificing the printed report. This makes it necessary to have an efficient, robust and secure solution to publish from a single source into these two publication platforms.

Philips was looking for a solution where they could publish the Annual Report in a highly automated way, from a single source, towards the web and printed version. relate⁴u was able to offer them that solution. Together with Cumquat relate⁴u has built a platform for single source publishing of the Annual Report. All data is captured in a central database and entered via a web browser.

All texts, tables, graphs and images are managed in this way, without any need for parallel changes in the print and web environment. All content is managed from a single source. Core financial data is imported from financial systems. relate⁴u works on the design together with Philips Design.

For the 2010 Annual Report we have added a new functionality. Visitors of the Philips’ Annual Report website can generate their own personal Annual Report, containing only the sections that the user selects online.

Visit Philips Annual Report 2010