Economy

The winners of the British Quality of Management Awards" were announced at 12.00 on Friday 27 March at an awards
ceremony at Trinity House, Tower Hill, London EC3.

MORI On-line interviewed a representative quota sample of 734 adults aged 18+ between 6.20pm and 9.20pm on 17 March 1998.
Interviews were conducted by telephone.
Data are weighted to the profile of the GB population.

Preliminary findings from a new MORI study into the growth of electronic commerce in Europe, reveal that nearly a quarter of Europe's companies who have access to the World Wide Web, are already earning revenue through the Internet. Electronic commerce is defined as managing all aspects of the business process including sales, marketing, finance, recruitment, customer support and partnership development over the Internet.

A MORI survey of the West End theatre industry has revealed "Theatreland" as an economic powerhouse bolstering the UK economy with thousands of jobs, millions of pounds of tourist and industry spending, creating significant tax yields and a major balance of payments surplus.

MORI Financial Services conducted a survey on the response of consumers to special payouts ("windfalls") this year as a result of demutualisation activity in the building society and insurance sectors. The Bank of England participated in this survey. Among the other institutions participating were Barclays Bank PLC.

There is a high level of confusion among savers, according to research by Test Research (part of the MORI
group) on behalf of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Europe is 11 times more overbanked than the UK, the least overbanked country in Europe

Marks & Spencer has won the MORI / PA Consulting Group's Sundridge Park Management Centre 'Quality of Management Award'. The award is given to the British company which Britain's captains of industry, city institutions and business journalists perceive as having the most impressive quality of management for future development, according to MORI survey findings.

The 1996 survey, conducted by MORI on behalf of ICL Financial Services, aims to break consumers' attitudes to new technology and the potential effect on banking services, home banking and the internet.