Economy

Who matters to a company? And who do they think matters? How effectively does business believe it is managing its key relationships? All of this is revealed in a new MORI report, based on large-scale surveys of opinion leaders in Britain today.

Only 44% of people are confident that future generations will be able to afford a home in 20 years' time, according to MORI research published today (17 January).

The City Opinion Survey establishes the perceptions which Investors and Analysts have of organisations and the issues affecting them. Such knowledge is crucial for an effective relationship which can help ensure fairly valued shares and optimise IR activities.

Up to a quarter of a million people could be forced to close individual savings accounts (ISAs), the Government's new tax-free investment vehicle, because they have taken them out in error.

These are some of the main findings of the research programme carried out among 702* companies in Europe and the USA by MORI for Intentia, the enterprise applications global software group. It is the first annual comparative tracking study of tier two companies to establish a picture of how quickly e-business is being adopted, and intentions for the future.

Preliminary figures released from a report to be published early next year suggest that although women find it easier to become entrepreneurs now than they did a decade ago, there is still some way to go to bring the level of UK women engaged in entrepreneurial activities up to that seen in the USA.

25 Million Adults Have Little Or No Savings And Are More Likely To Play The Lottery Than Save

As a wave of financial services providers launch onto the Net a new MORI poll commissioned by Interactive Investor and Screentrade, shows that since April an extra 15,000 people a week approximately have been using the Net to arrange their finances. In total, approximately 1.8 million people say they have used the Internet for banking or buying financial products.

The craze for sending text messages from mobile phones which has hit the nation has been secretly embraced by some of our top business people. Twenty nine per cent of the "Captains' of Industry" surveyed by MORI on BT Cellnet's behalf say they send and receive text messages from their mobile phone and a further nineteen per cent said they would find the service useful. Three per cent even admit to using the service to receive latest football scores and lottery results. The number of SMS messages sent in the UK each month has now topped 100 million (source: Mobile Data Association).