{"id":181091,"date":"2017-06-23T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=181091"},"modified":"2017-06-23T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T07:24:28","slug":"these-are-the-most-trusted-companies-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/181091\/these-are-the-most-trusted-companies-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the most trusted companies in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reputation House and the Reputation Institute in South Africa, has released\u00a0its annual corporate reputation study, listing and ranking South Africa\u2019s most reputable companies.<\/p>\n<p>The study which was conducted by online survey, asked its participants to respond with their most immediate emotional response when asked how they feel about a specific company. It\u00a0focused on eight industries made up of companies included on the basis of at least 50% familiarity with the general public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clover<\/strong>, which first featured in the report in 2016, attained an &#8220;unprecedented score&#8221; of 80.3 (out of a possible 100) taking it to first place.\u00a0It was followed by\u00a0<strong>Coca-Cola<\/strong> (79.5), <strong>Pick n Pay<\/strong> (77.6), <strong>Nestle<\/strong> (76.7), \u00a0and <strong>FNB<\/strong> (76.3) to round out the top five.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Reputation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-new-size wp-image-181097 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Reputation-640x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Reputation-640x200.jpg 640w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Reputation-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Reputation-768x241.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Reputation-1024x321.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Reputation.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Products &amp; Services, as a dimension of reputation, remains the most important driver of Corporate Reputation among economically active South Africans, Governance and good business practice is found to have gained in overall prominence, noted the report.<\/p>\n<p>The implication here being that the general public continues to be more concerned about whether a company is fair in business, behaves ethically and is open and transparent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the face of a turbulent political environment, the corporate sector in South Africa is enjoying enhanced levels of trust. This trust is increasingly predicated on companies being transparent, fair and ethical,\u00a0, said\u00a0Dr. Dominik Heil, Chairman of Reputation House.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, to improve their reputation in a robust and sustainable way, corporates are well advised to build organisational cultures that embed and promote, transparency, fairness and ethical behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>2016 vs 2017<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Changes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-new-size wp-image-181101 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Changes-640x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Changes-640x315.jpg 640w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Changes-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Changes-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Changes-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Changes.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Pulse rankings\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pulse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-181109 size-new-size\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pulse-640x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pulse-640x317.jpg 640w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pulse-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pulse-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pulse-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pulse.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/180617\/the-cheapest-and-most-expensive-medical-aids-in-south-african-in-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The cheapest and most expensive medical aids in South Africa in 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reputation House and the Reputation Institute in South Africa, has released\u00a0its annual corporate reputation study, listing and ranking South Africa\u2019s most reputable companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":152381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-181091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181091"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181147,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181091\/revisions\/181147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}