Printing and Publishing sector tops June's Customer Experience Index, with Legal Services dominating middle tier
Swindon, 27th June 2010


Printing and Publishing pips all other sectors to the number 1 spot in the recently published Customer Experience Index (iCXP) provided by iCustomerExperience. The sector achieved an average Customer Experience Rating (CER) of 82.91, some 10 points above the baseline for period 1st Jan – 30th June 2010. The sector was also seen to have the greatest number of customers falling into the “advocate” category (see definition below) in iCustomerExperience’s Customer State Analysis (CSA).

Legal Services dominates the middle tier of the Index, participating companies having a mixture of commercial and private clients. Whilst performance is varied amongst participating firms, the sector displays the greatest number of ‘engaged’ clients suggesting that whilst clients have expressed a level of satisfaction with their supplier firms, a high percentage of them remain emotionally detached, therefore very susceptible to competing offerings from other legal firms.

Other notable sectors include Accountancy Services and Distribution who emerge as contenders for the Index’s top spot, Distribution performing particularly well with an average CER of 80.93.

Recruitment Services and Marketing Services however do not perform particularly well at this time, the latter falling some 15 points below the baseline for the period.

Should you want to benchmark your customer experience delivery and customer loyalty against other organisations in your sector or indeed the wider market place, contact us  now for more information on the Customer Experience Index (iCXP).



Advocate definition: iCustomerExperience’s CSA assumes there are a total of five states that relate to a customer’s attitude towards a company i.e. Disengaged, Indifferent, Engaged, Captivated, and Advocate. Advocates are described as champions of a company’s bran; they actively promote the company’s services unprompted. Advocates are indifferent to competitive offerings; their longevity, increased spend, reduced cost to serve, and referrals are key drivers of profitable growth for a company.


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