Corporate Reputation Affects Consumer Purchase Decisions

57% of US consumers say that they are increasingly checking product labels to see what company is behind the product they are buying, and the same proportion say they get annoyed when it is not obvious what company is behind a product, according to survey results released in January 2012 by Weber Shandwick. Roughly 2 in 5 US consumers also say they hesitate to buy a product when it is not clear what company makes them, and that they do research to learn about the companies that make the product they buy. (more…)