New Ipsos polling reveals growing economic pessimism and the tangible impact of the Iran conflict on costs, though businesses continue to favour Labour over the Conservatives and Reform on key economic and business policies.
'Never have an office affair', 'learn to say no' and 'don't be afraid of failure' are among the key pieces of advice given by Britain's top bosses to new recruits, a 3M survey has revealed.
For the second year running, Sir John Browne is voted most impressive business leader in the MORI 2000 annual survey of Captains of Industry. He is nominated by one in five business leaders and has featured in the top three for the past four years. Following close behind him, new entrant, Chris Gent, chairman of Vodafone, comes straight into second place, chosen by seventeen per cent of Captains.
Britain's business leaders regard skills shortages as the most important problem facing their company today, according to the findings of the 2000 MORI annual survey of Britain's Captains of Industry. For the first time ever, this issue is of more concern than regulation and competition with one in three - three times as many as in 1999 - mentioning it as their major preoccupation.
Four million TESSA investors don't know the rules on reinvesting their maturing TESSA funds and one fifth1 (21%) of the UK's five million TESSA holders don't know even when their fund matures, HSBC warned today.
According to recent research undertaken by MORI for the Association of Investment Trust Companies ("AITC"), the British public are a nation of dreamers - they have a dream goal or a dream possession, a little or large luxury that would meet their dreams and aspirations. The only problem is - that's all they have!
Dot.com workers are exchanging objectivity and accuracy for speed and convenience when it comes to online information on which to base business decisions.
A MORI poll commissioned by the National Consumer Council shows that 62 percent of adults think the Government should be doing more to protect consumers.
