New polling data from Ipsos in the UK, conducted 17-21 April 2026, reveals high levels of public anxiety as the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz begins to disrupt global supply chains. The British public is particularly concerned about the personal financial toll on food and petrol, while expressing dissatisfaction with the government’s response to rising prices.
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.
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.
Institutional investors and IT companies expect the investment climate for the IT sector to continue to improve during the next five years, with 80% of investors expecting to increase their weighting in IT companies. The most widely perceived benefit of investing in IT companies is their long term positive growth rates.
Britain's independent businessmen are increasingly opposed to a single European currency, according to the third annual 3i / MORI survey of Key Independent Businesses in Britain. Two in five owner-managers of these business are against it while three in ten are in favour. By contrast, a similar survey conducted in 1995 recorded an even split in opinion on this issue.
