Now in its ninth year, The Drum's Annual Report Prize has become a hotly contested competition and brings together the very best in design and production of an organisation's most important piece of corporate literature – the Annual Report.

As in the last few years, every annual report entered into the review will be assessed on a number of clearly defined criteria: Graphic Design, Layout, Use of pictures/images/tables/charts, Use of paper, Clarity of text and Overall impression. We will also, this year, include a section for online annual reports – for any companies that have taken the brave step of moving their reporting away from print completely.

If you would like to be involved in this feature please send in FOUR copies of each annual report you would like to enter (to allow us to send one to each judge – obviously online reports do not need to do this). All Annual Reports entered for the review must be the client's most recently published reports.

Please note, you may submit as many different client annual reports as you wish for a single handling charge of £30. Please make all cheques payable to The Carnyx Group. (Online only reports do not carry a charge.)

A judging panel is currently being put together which will consist of a group of highly respected designers and financial directors.

The deadline for entries to reach The Drum's offices is 13 March 2009. Any problems with this date or other questions, contact Thomas O'Neil or Gordon Laing on 0141 332 3255.