EE Offers Customers Prime Entertainment Deal

UK Customer Experience Awards winner EE has announced a new bonus for customers who love movies and TV. The mobile provider, which won Best Contact Centre Large at the UK CX Awards in London’s Wembley Stadium last October, has announced that millions of...

Hacked off: British Customers Failing to Return Following Data Breaches

Forty-one percent of British customers will never return to a brand after it’s been suffered a hack, according to new research. The findings have been published in the Ponemon Institute’s 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study, which shows that UK consumers are...

Employers ‘Failing to Meet Demands’ of Almost a Third of UK Workers

Almost a third (31 percent) of UK professionals believe their expectations are “not being met at all” by their current employer, a new study has found. Research undertaken by recruiter Robert Walters and job board CV-Library has been compiled in a...

Play for Pay: Gamification Boosts Productivity, Study Shows

Gamified rewards and bonuses not only introduce an element of fun in to the workplace, but also increase employee performance, according to new research which also found that 52 percent of bosses are losing out on increased productivity by not...

2019 UK Complaint Handling Awards: Winners Celebrate Victory in London

The 2019 UK Complaint Handling Awards have taken place in London, celebrating the people and  initiatives behind some of the best customer service operations in Britain. Hosted by Awards International – holders of an Independent Awards Standards Council Gold Trust Mark – the...

Business Stream Awarded Multi-Million Public Sector Contract

UK Customer Experience Awards winner Business Stream has been awarded the YPO framework contract following a highly competitive tendering process. The four year deal is worth up to £62 million and is one of the largest contracts to be awarded since...

Financial Services Failing to ‘Treat Customers Fairly’, Report Finds

Over half (52 percent) of financial services customers feel firms treat consumers unfairly, according to new research. A new report by Voice of the Customer (VoC) pioneers Maru/edr is based on a study into customer treatment in the financial services industry, which interviewed...

Major Digital Transformation Journey at Gulf Bank as Part of CX Overhaul

Kuwait’s Gulf Bank has revealed details of a digital transformation journey designed to streamline their service for customers. Working with firm Alaris, the bank has digitized 50 million documents using scanners, which has dramatically reduced physical storage space and resulted in...

2019 UK Employee Experience Awards Finalists Announced

The finalists for the 2019 UK Employee Experience Awards have been revealed, with businesses across Britain competing in 19 categories covering every aspect of employee engagement and its impact on overall Customer Experience.  The daytime event will be hosted by Awards...

B2B E-commerce Lagging Behind B2C for Customer Experience

Poor product visualisation is preventing almost a quarter of B2B customers from making purchases online, according to a new report. E-commerce agency PushON surveyed 500 key business decision makers from up and down the country and found that although the majority of B2B...

Skipton Building Society Reflects on an Award-Winning Year

Skipton Building Society, which enjoyed huge success at the UK Customer Experience Awards, has seen membership jump to over one million customers following an incredible year. The firm, which won three gold awards at the UKCXAs in Wembley Stadium in October, announced its...

Report Highlights What Turns Customers off Brands

Bad customer service caused UK customers to stop using a product or service 3.6 times in the last year, a new report has revealed. Based on a global survey of 2,000 customer-facing employees by CITE Research, including 500 in the UK, the report...