Financial Services
UK
Thu, 16/05/2013 - 13:12
Last week Sainsbury’s said that it had paid £248m to Lloyds Banking Group to take full ownership of Sainsbury’s Bank, buying...
US
Wed, 16/01/2013 - 03:10
AIG has reached its best US consumer perception levels since the financial meltdown of September 2008, most likely helped by...
US
Fri, 02/11/2012 - 16:56
Sears is the first major retailer out of the box in early October to announce a free layaway plan and their Shop Your Way loy...
US
Tue, 23/10/2012 - 19:15
Brands featured prominently in this past summer’s conventions and news received some of the biggest perception boosts by part...
US
Mon, 01/10/2012 - 15:42
This month’s US Buzz improvers list includes several companies capitalizing on long-awaited product releases.
Walgreen’s has...
US
Wed, 29/08/2012 - 21:54
This month's US buzz improvers have two back-to-school brands in the top three.
Target has gained attention for its back-to-s...
US
Tue, 28/08/2012 - 18:38
Progressive Insurance’s mid-August controversy has brought the company to its lowest US consumer perception levels in more th...
US
Tue, 14/08/2012 - 18:38
VISA appears to be the breakaway Olympic sponsor winner, recording the biggest gains in consumer perception over the course o...
US
Wed, 08/08/2012 - 03:07
The reported $100 million Visa spent being a “Worldwide Olympic Partner” appears to be paying off already: the credit card co...
UK
Thu, 05/07/2012 - 12:21
Last week the NatWest computer glitch; this week another bank, another crisis and more damage to a brand.
The Libor scandal h...
UK
Thu, 28/06/2012 - 14:14
Whether NatWest’s recent computer problems are over remains to be seen, but what is already obvious is the damage that is bei...
UK
Tue, 26/06/2012 - 14:53
On June 8, Marks & Spencer announced that they will soon be replacing M&S Money with a new service: M&S Bank. Thi...
US
Thu, 21/06/2012 - 17:10
The race for investment bank viewed most negatively by the public between JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs just got a little tight...
US
Tue, 22/05/2012 - 20:05
Goldman Sachs may have to relinquish its title as Wall Street’s poster boy for bad behavior.
After its recent admission of m...
US
Sun, 29/04/2012 - 20:47
Google and Google+ head up this month’s brand improver list. Google clocked up an additional 13.6 Buzz points in March with...
US
Tue, 17/04/2012 - 19:37
Discover card not only bounced back early in consumer perception after a major security breach rattled the whole industry thr...
US
Wed, 28/03/2012 - 03:04
Tide, the month's top Buzz improver, benefited from some unusual brand coverage and surged 7.9 points. On February 28th lar...
US
Wed, 21/03/2012 - 14:29
Goldman Sachs’ most recent controversy has sent its workplace reputation with consumers below 2008 – 2009 financial crisis da...
US
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:09
Is it time for Geico and Progressive Insurance to retire their gecko, cavemen and sales clerk Flo characters?
Both brands ha...
UK
Wed, 15/02/2012 - 10:17
People are chemically programmed to feel more comfortable when they are in agreement with those around them. This affects peo...
UK
Wed, 14/12/2011 - 14:05
At the start of the year, BrandIndex looked at how major banks had fared over 2010, noting that it had been a bad year for pe...
US
Wed, 28/09/2011 - 19:18
Creating jobs provides a short-term boost to Capital One’s consumer reputation in the US.
The country’s fifth-largest bank’s...
UK
Thu, 09/06/2011 - 09:33
At the start of the year, BrandIndex looked at how Santander’s scores had nose-dived in the UK during 2010 taking it from com...
UK
Thu, 26/05/2011 - 15:29
National Savings & Investments, the Government-backed savings provider, re-launched its Index-linked Savings Certificates...
US
Thu, 07/04/2011 - 14:19
April is US tax month, and storefront chain H&R Block and software product TurboTax have been trying to outdo one another...
UK
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 10:06
Over the last week we have seen three of the major UK banks - HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) ann...
UK
Mon, 25/10/2010 - 15:30
At the end of September, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) released figures detailing which banks had received the most...
UK
Tue, 31/08/2010 - 14:38
The UK officially came out of recession in January this year and a comparison of the data for both the telecoms and financial...
UK
Thu, 26/08/2010 - 14:43
Record profits, but increasing prices for the insurance firm Aviva have seen an influx of mixed feelings towards the brand fr...
US
Fri, 16/07/2010 - 18:03
We recently released a list of the brands that have improved their Buzz scores the most, through the first half of 2010. Chec...
UK
Mon, 21/06/2010 - 15:09
BrandIndex shows the insurance giant Prudential's scores slipping since its announcement that it intends to acquire the Asian...
US
Mon, 14/06/2010 - 18:05
While BrandIndex data suggests that US consumers are more negative on Goldman Sachs than even BP, The New York Times suggests...
UK
Thu, 27/05/2010 - 13:11
The insurance giant Prudential’s scores have been slipping since its announcement that it intends to acquire the Asian life i...
US
Mon, 26/04/2010 - 15:25
Goldman Sachs has seen its US BrandIndex 'Reputation' and 'Buzz' scores tumble following the recent allegations of fraud by t...
US
Wed, 27/01/2010 - 15:40
We have looked at the impact that President Obama's announcement on 21 January may have had on the American public's percepti...
