Award information

2025 Winner

Verona Pharma plc

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Picture shows, left to right;
Nina Hossain, awards presenter; Geoff Nash, Corporate Finance Director, Cavendish (award sponsor); Alice Ingram, Manager, Accounting, Verona Pharma plc (award winner); Oliver Poulain, Director Finance, Verona Pharma plc, (award winner); Victoria Stewart Senior Director, Investor Relations & Communications, Verona Pharma plc, (award winner); Melody A. Carey, President & Chief Executive Officer, Rx Communications Group, LLC (Mainline sponsor); and Neil Shah, Executive Director, Content & Strategy, Edison Group (Mainline sponsor).

2025 Shortlist

  • Ascendis Pharma A/S
  • Basilea Pharmaceutica AG
  • Camurus AB
  • Cereno Scientific AB
  • Pharming Group NV
  • Recordati Industria Chimica e Farmaceutica SpA
  • Verona Pharma plc
  • Zealand Pharma A/S

Criteria 

The Company of the Year will already have gained recognition by analysts and investors.

It will be a well managed, soundly financed growth business with a well defined strategy to deliver its key financial, ethical and social ambitions. Put simply, the Voting Panel are not necessarily looking for the biggest, but they are looking for the best.