Skepticism Remains Concerning Companies’ Environmental Messages

Companies appear to have their work cut out from them when it comes to getting their environmental claims across to consumers, finds Cone Communications [download page] in its 2012 Green Gap Trend Tracker, released in March. Just 44% of American consumers trust companies to tell them the truth when it comes to environmental messaging, relatively unchanged from 43% who showed such trust last year, but down from 47% in 2008. And consumers will not be shy in their response: slightly more than three-quarters said they would stop buying a product if they discovered that an environmental claim was misleading. (more…)