Cebr’s bespoke reports in the media:

• Cebr’s report on traffic congestion, commissioned by INRIX, revealed that the cost of gridlock is set to increase 50% by 2030. The research was covered by, among others, the Financial Times, Forbes, Time magazine, Les Echos, Newsweek, ABC News, Le Figaro, Die Welt, Le Parisian and many more.

 

• Cebr’s study into the value of “Made in Britain”, commissioned by Barclay’s Corporate Banking, calculated that the labels “Made in England”, “Made in Scotland” and “Made in Wales” for the most part command considerably lower premiums than when the respective products are marketed as “Made in Britain”.

 

• Cebr’s research for Zapp Mobile showed that shifting from cash, credit and charge card towards mobile phone payment could have saved retailers £463m in lower transaction costs in 2013. This was the subject of articles in the Daily Mail.

 

• Cebr and Pinsent Masons’ study on the future of Chinese investment in UK infrastructure over the next decade was covered by the Financial Times, Financial Times Asia, BBC Radio 4, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, Reuters, the Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post among others. So far 450,000 unique twitter users have commented on the report. Click here to watch Danae Kyriakopoulou, a co-author, talk about the findings of the report with CCTV America.

 

• Cebr’s report, written in conjunction with Public Health England and the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends Initiative, released earlier this year calculated that the cost of dementia to business is predicted to double as the number of those living with the illness is set to rise to 1 million by 2030. The research was covered by the Financial Times, among others.

 

• A report released earlier this year focusing on Britain’s connectivity deficit, Smarter Working Britain, was commented on in the Daily Telegraph.

 

Regular Cebr reports in the media:

• Cebr/YouGov’s Consumer Confidence monitor for October which indicated a decline in consumer confidence, was covered by This is Money, Reuters UK, Daily Telegraph and the Guardian.

 

Cebr’s Economic Forecasts and Analysis in the News:

• Cebr’s forecast that UK house prices will fall by 0.8% in 2015 after growth of 7.8% in 2014 was covered by many outlets including  the BBC Today , Sky News, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Bloomberg News, Reuters UK, ITV News and This is Money.

 

• Scott Corfe’s comments on the UK’s precarious economic recovery made it into the Evening Standard.

 

• Scott Corfe’s comments on the slump in oil prices were featured in the Independent.

 

In Other News:

• Cebr’s Head of Macroeconomics, Scott Corfe spoke at an Institute of Fundraising conference event on the current levels of funding provided to good causes through the society lotteries sector and the potential for expanding society’s lotteries’ contributions to good causes.

 

• Cebr’s Chief Economic Advisor, Vicky Pryce, published an article on the economic troubles of the Eurozone and Greece in the Daily Mail.