YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, discusses the deal between Morrisons and Ocado to launch Morrisons’ online shopping service Morrisons, Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket, last week announced it had struck a deal with online grocery retailer Ocado, which will enable it to provide an online shopping service. The move means that all of ...
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Defining a national core reference data set will turn 'puppy like enthusiasm' for open data into bankable economic growth The world is changing, yet again – this time it's all about data: how we produce it, crunch it and use it to make our lives better. Britain has huge advantages ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, suggests that Sainsbury’s Bank should capitalise on the positive perception held by its associated supermarket brand Last week Sainsbury’s said that it had paid £248m to Lloyds Banking Group to take full ownership of Sainsbury’s Bank, buying out the 50 per cent stake owned by the ...
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YouGov CEO Stephan Shakespeare launches the ‘Shakespeare Review’ into the use of public sector information YouGov CEO and Data Strategy Board Chairman Stephan Shakespeare today launches the ‘Shakespeare Review’, an independent report that outlines recommendations for how public sector information (PSI) can be better used to improve government services and ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, suggests that the continued increase in consumer confidence is being driven by Londoners and the better off. On the day of the Budget I wrote about the March data from YouGov’s Household Economic Activity Tracker (HEAT), which showed that for the first time since June 2010 ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, asks whether Pernoi’s recent actions will benefit its branding as a “posh pint” or if this might be seen as class snobbery. Miller Brands caused a stir last week when it emerged that the firm had refused to allow Peroni to be served in the Crown ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, discusses the success of Pret A Manger and what this means for its new store locations. It has been a good year for sandwich chain Pret A Manger, with sales up 17% to £443m and profits also up by 17 per cent to £61.1m. Along with ...
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How much have the views of British Bankers changed? Quite a lot, discovers YouGov CEO STEPHAN SHAKESPEARE introducing a new YouGov report prepared for the YouGov-Cambridge event 'Public Trust in Banking' The Masters of the Universe who sat at the top table of British Banking in 2007 have now almost ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, discusses how news on Twitter of SSE's £10.5m fine was very damaging to their brand. Utility giant SSE – formerly known as Scottish and Southern Energy and one of the UK’s so-called Big Six energy companies – was fined £10.5m by Ofgem back on 3 April, ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, discusses the huge impact of the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death on social media websites. Social media, as we now know it, wasn’t even invented when Margaret Thatcher was in power. And yet nearly a quarter century after she left Downing Street news of her death ...
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