In a poll by Echo Research , 36 per cent of senior professionals said they believed the number of corporate social responsibility programmes would fall ...

Omnibus Survey, Echo Research, April-May 2008. [2] Ezzati et al. Selected major risk factors and global regional burden of disease. The Lancet. ...

by David Michaelson, Echo Research.

A recent survey conducted by Echo Research for the soap and detergent association found that only 85 per cent of respondents say they always wash their ...

It’s a unstudied however forcible message: Wash your hands to stop the spread of disease. But in what way many of us heed that message? Apparently, not enough. The Soap and Detergent Association is out with its 4th Clean Hands Report, and it gives Americans a C-minus. That’s because some key hand-washing hygiene skills seems to have slipped. Echo Research conducted the telephone survey of 916 heads of households, 458 women and 458 men, in August 2008 on the association’s behalf...

We all hear it - that little voice reminding us to wash our hands after we cough, sneeze, or use the bathroom. Sadly, we don't always listen. A recent survey conducted by Echo Research for the Soap and Detergent Association found only 85 per cent of respondents say they always wash their hands after using the bathroom, down from 92 per cent in a previous survey conducted in 2006.

As President of Echo Research, he was the first practitioner since Walt Lindenmann to win the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize. ...

One-third of small business owners report the uncertain economy as the biggest challenge they face in growing their businesses— the largest number in the seven-year history of the American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor, a semi-annual survey of business owners. One-quarter of business owners are challenged by the rising costs of doing business.... The survey was conducted by Echo Research August 12-25, and released this month prior to federal action on the credit crunch.

More than Half of Business Owners will Accept Lower Profits Rather than Raise Prices

In the survey conducted by Echo Research August 12-25, the economy is cited by four in ten small business owners (38%) as the issue that will most sway their decision on the next president of the United States, followed at a distance by ...

BRAND analysis company Echo Research is to offer financial backing to the Watts Gallery in Compton in a bid to bring the venue’s impressive collection of ...

In the survey conducted by Echo Research August 12-25, the economy is cited by four in ten small business owners (38%) as the issue that will most sway ...

WHL Calls for Family and Loved Ones To Get Involved

Shane O'Riordain, director of corporate communications at HBOS, has emerged as the best-regarded communications professional at a British high street bank

You will be surprised to learn that Americans still do not do it enough according to a telelphone survey conducted this past August 2008 by Echo Research. Below are the scary results:. Facts & Statistics based on 916 heads of households ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A majority of information technology decision-makers at U.S. midsize companies say that information security is the most important business issue for their companies’ future success, followed by reducing costs and improving customer service. This is just one of the findings of a survey by the Midmarket Group of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW - News).

Randy Nornes, EVP of AON Global began this morning’s discussion of corporate reputation at the New York Bar Association building in Manhattan by saying that US businesses rely more on senior management intuition than analysis when assessing corporate risk.

If you are starting out or considering a career change, does the following appeal - learning another language (or three), travelling and working abroad to understand things from different cultural angles, putting yourself in other people's shoes and thinking 'what's in it for me?'

In my travels, I've discovered that you cannot go anywhere without the US presidential elections popping up in the conversation, even in seemingly unrelated topics or circumstances.

A quarter of U.S. workers complain of working in gloomy environments that they say could be improved with windows that open or better-looking colleagues, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

The Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) appoints Echo as its exclusive partner for research

America's small business owners are optimistic in the face of the economy's downturn, with the majority planning to expand their operations despite cash flow concerns and soaring energy costs, according to a recent survey for OPEN from American Express, the company's small business team.

Armenian presidential hopeful, ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan appealed to the Constitutional Court “to recognize as insuperable the obstacles, which arose on the way of his participation in the February 19 elections.”

New York, NY January 28, 2008 - Leading reputation analysis and communication research firm, Echo Research Inc. today announces the appointment of Dan Soulas as Executive Vice President and Director of its new primary research unit focused on servicing the needs of corporate and PR agency clients.

James Murdoch’s move from CEO of BSkyB to take charge of his father’s NewsCorp media empire in Europe and Asia renewed the charges of nepotism that greeted his Sky appointment in 20

As commerce globalises, the personal relationship between business and consumer is lost. But for any firm, intimacy - real or false - sells. How does a distant corporation become a friend? And should it? Emma De Vita reports.

Echo's seminal series on CSR trends appears in the latest Ethical Corporation magazine

The demand on business leaders is no longer the 'make money or else' of yore. As Emily Ford reveals, social and ethical considerations are increasingly important to corporate success

OK, so the title may be misleading. As anyone who's been involved in a research project knows, there's almost nothing quick and easy about the process. But as with most things in life, having a clear and simple strategy at the start goes at least some way towards clarifying what you're trying to achieve and why, and how best to get it done...

Echoes of Success: Surrey Firm Among Most Influential The CEO of Surrey-based Echo Research, Sandra Macleod, has been named as one of the 100 most influential figures in the PR industry in the UK, cited by PR Week for her record of devising reputation management solutions across the world.

Macleod addressed International PR Association: “It is up to senior communications counselors to educate management on the actual drivers and possible risks to reputation, challenge what could be blinkered views and decision making, and use research to support improved understanding, sounder management behavior and track ongoing changes.” When conferees asked, “Can reputation be measured?” Echo said the answer is clearly “Yes.”

Echo Research took home the prestigious Platinum Award and three Golds at the 2005 AMEC Communication Effectiveness Awards event… November 21. AMEC is the UK Association of Media Evaluation Companies. As well as scooping the Platinum Award and a gold award for their monthly media scorecardsfor Surrey Police, Echo Research also took home a further two gold awards for their ReputationDrivers service in the Innovation category and for their global media analysis work for MAC Cosmetics in the international category. On their Platinum Award win, CEO Sandra Macleod commented: “Surrey Police consistently stimulate us to 'go the extra mile' in their regular monthly media evaluation to further support and inform the senior management team and their strategies, so it is hugely rewarding for both parties to have this recognised by the awards' judges and our peers."

Analyzes opinion media content in Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Australia, Canada

Third Annual Summit on Measurement Advanced Research Conference Presented by Institute for Public RelationsEcho Research presented a case study on a global cosmetics client that used only media coverage to gain significant industry status at the 2005 Summit on Measurement, the most advanced conference focused entirely on public relations measurement and evaluation. Held in September at the New England Center of the University of New Hampshire, the third annual summit was also the first under the auspices of the Institute for Public Relations, parent organization of the Commission on PR Measurement and Evaluation.

Few Companies have PR at the Top - at their peril Three percent of communication directors are on the Main Board and 23% are on the Executive Committees of FTSE 100 companies, according to a UK-wide survey conducted by Echo Research

On both sides of the Atlantic, the twin concerns of Governance and Reputation Risk have been pushed unceremoniously and uncomfortably on to Boardroom tables. Tougher legislation and directives from the Sarbanes-Oxley act in the US and, in the UK, the Financial Services Authority, along with the Higgs' Review on boardroom reforms are focusing Director's minds.

The Commission on Public Relations Measurement and Evaluation of the Institute for Public Relations has a new chair and six new members, including Marianne Eisenmann, Managing Director of Echo Research/North America.

US businesses are lagging behind their counterparts in Europe, Australia and South Africa in taking seriously their corporate social responsibility (CSR), according to a new study released recently by Echo Research, the global specialists in reputation audit and analysis. While major U.S. multinationals still lead in philanthropy, they have a "blind spot" that misses the growing importance of CSR to socially responsible investing around the world, the study found.

Reports at International Conference that Ad Ban Won’t Work Ban on advertising won't stop children from becoming obese; but listening to their parents and teachers will....

Gainesville, FL The Institute for Public Relations, dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations, recently announced its new trustees for the 2005-2007 term and re-elected several current trustees, including Echo CEO Sandra Macleod.