Corporate Excellence – Centre for Reputation Leadership, together with the Real Instituto Elcano and Reputation Institute, has presented a preview of the results of the 2012 Country RepTrakTM. The study, conducted at the beginning of the year, places Spain in fifth position when compared to G8 nations (with 63.4 points out of a possible 100), behind only Canada, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. For consumers in G8 nations (Germany, Canada, the USA, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and Russia), our country stands in 16th position overall out of the 50 countries surveyed in the study. The study is one of the first projects undertaken by the Spanish brand observatory (Observatorio de la Marca España) of the Real Instituto Elcano, and ...

“Reputation and brand are key to differentiate our products and services, and to lay the foundation for a new model of competitive advantage which generates sustained value”, says Ángel Alloza, CEO of Corporate Excellence – Centre for Reputation Leadership. Reputation is key for recovering the trust and creating value for companies, institutions as well as the whole country, its regions and cities. For Alloza, “reputation is not a black box. It consists of 7 dimensions that need to be carefully managed: products and services; transparency, good corporate governance and ethics; social responsibility and sustainability; the quality of products and services; innovation; workplace; and financial results”. The CEO of Corporate Excellence goes on to explain...