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Ethical Consumerism Research
Overall, value for money and the quality of products are seen as most important when purchasing. The way the company is seen to treat its employees is seen as very important by over two in five of the British public, while a third consider its impact on the environment very important. Customer service would be most likely to persuade the public to buy one product over another, when price and quality are consistent, while the brand name or image is seen as most important to those aged under 35.
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What Does 'Heritage' Mean To You?
MORI Poll Reveals Overwhelming Support For The Historic Environment
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Business On Blair
Q1 Do you think the economic condition of the country will improve, stay the same, or get worse over the next 12 months?
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Confidence In Government Ability To Achieve Uk Online Internet Goals Plummets
Parliamentarians Increasingly Concerned About The Net's Disadvantaged Claims World Internet Forum Survey
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Report Card
Across the country as I write, schoolchildren are receiving the examination results that assess their performance over the last couple of years in each of the subjects. (Well, except in Scotland, but that is a different story.) It seems an appropriate point at which to draw up a similar report card for the government. In which policy areas does the public feel it has passed, and in which has it failed? Or rather, since "value added" seems to be the preferred benchmark these days, in which policy areas has it improved its standing since it was elected, and in which has it lost out? And, for those issues where the Opposition has scored hits, has the result merely been to damage Labour credibility or also to convince the electorate that the Conservatives (or, indeed, Liberal Democrats) might do a better job?
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E-Commerce: Lack Of Consumer Trust Holds It Back
Consumers' lack of confidence in the strength of online security is hindering the expansion of Internet shopping according to research commissioned by the National Consumer Council (1 - see notes)