Seven Decades of Corporate Reporting
In investor reporting, clarity directly affects how strategy, performance, and risk are understood and evaluated.
Corporate reporting is not a trend for OBATA. It is a core discipline refined over nearly seven decades. Since 1956, OBATA has partnered with organizations to deliver annual reports, proxy statements, and integrated reports that meet investor expectations, regulatory requirements, and evolving disclosure standards.
What differentiates OBATA is continuity. Long-standing client relationships. Multi-year reporting programs. And the ability to evolve reporting narratives, visual systems, and disclosure frameworks without sacrificing credibility or quality.
Reporting That Clarifies the Investment Story
Across annual, proxy, and integrated reports, OBATA supports the development of clear investment narratives through disciplined thematic structure and aligned executive communication.
Working collaboratively with internal teams, we help ensure strategy, performance, and risk are presented as a cohesive story rather than disconnected disclosures.
The result is reporting that supports investor confidence while standing up to scrutiny.
Selected examples below reflect work across multiple industries, disclosure formats, and multi-year client relationships.





Blueprint 4 Summer
2020 Community Impact Report, Interactive PDF






Emerson
2017 Annual Report & Microsite
LACP Vision Awards:
– Gold Winner Worldwide – Print
– Silver Winner – Online

Fortune Brands Home & Security
2016 Annual Report
LACP Vision Awards:
– Platinum Winner Worldwide
– Top 50 Worldwide

Fortune Brands Home & Security
2015 Annual Report
LACP Vision Awards:
– Platinum Winner Worldwide
– Top 50 Worldwide
– Special Achievements Gold Winner






Selected Reporting Examples
OBATA’s annual reporting work spans public companies, privately held organizations, utilities, and nonprofit institutions. The examples shown represent a cross-section of annual reports delivered over the past decade, reflecting different disclosure requirements, industries, and reporting objectives.
- Ascension Health
- Ameren
- Blueprint4Summer
- Gardner Denver
- Emerson, view annual report & microsite case study
- ESCO Technologies
- First State Bancshares, view annual report case study
- Fortune Brands, view case study
- MasterBrands
- Patriot Coal
- Peabody Energy
- Prairie State Energy Campus
- Stereotaxis
- Tracy Family Foundation