An exclusive, confidential intranet and portal benchmarking group of leading European, US and global organisations, The Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF at http://www.ibforum.com ), has announced that Deutsche Telekom, Petro Canada, Anglo American, Abbot and Pfizer have become the latest global organisations to have joined the forum as corporate members.

The IBF, formed in 2002, is the world's foremost intranet and portal benchmarking group and is acknowledged to have established industry standards for intranet and portal performance. IBF members now include more than 70 of the world's leading public and private sector bodies such the BT, BBC, HM Revenue and Customs, Unilever, Nokia, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kellogg's amongst others.

"The mission of the IBF is to drive forward the performance of member intranets and portals through interaction, measurement and best practice and we are delighted to welcome yet more leading international organisations on board as members of the IBF", declared IBF Chairman and CEO, Paul Miller.

One of the world's leading telecommunications companies, Deutsche Telekom, a Canadian oil and gas company with international operations, Petro-Canada, have both joined IBF Global. IBF Global, a division of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum for Global 500 organisations, was established in 2005 to meet the unique issues and challenges that global organisations face in managing and progressing with their global intranet and portal services.

Anglo American, one of the world's largest diversified mining and natural resource groups, has joined the IBF 100 division, which consists of companies in the FTSE100 or equivalent organisations. Abbot a global broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage health, and Pfizer, a market leading pharmaceutical giant, have joined IBF North America. Launched in 2007, IBF North America is for Fortune 500 companies (and organisations of comparable size from the public sector).