ING Direct - Feel Good News - Radio Medley

The Feel Good site has made the news and below is a medley of radio coverage it recently received.

ING Direct research showed that Brits are getting fed up with an ever increasing diet of bad news. It revealed that half of the public think that there is too much negativity in the press, whilst 57 per cent think that the media is obsessed with bad news. The Feel Good site was positioned as a way to put a smile back on people’s faces. This was reported on radio stations up and down the country.

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16th December 2009

Grandad says no to socks, handkerchiefs and woolly jumpers. He’d prefer a Wii.

Brits are set to spend £18.7 billion on Christmas gifts this year, but our generosity won’t be spread equally among our nearest and dearest.

Grandads will draw the short straw, receiving presents worth an average of just £17 each, according to the new research published today by ING Direct.

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6th January 2010

From novelty crockery to garish knitwear, Britons received more than 30 million presents that they really didn’t want this Christmas.  

New research from ING Direct, carried out on Boxing Day, reveals the size of the unwanted present ‘mountain’, estimated to be worth more than £325 million in 2009. And the main beneficiary of these ill-chosen gifts will be charity stores, with nearly a third (30 per cent) of these presents set to be donated to good causes.

However, many of us will be cheeky enough to recycle these gifts in other ways, such as passing them off as presents for others at a later date (23 per cent), or selling them through online auction sites (8 per cent).
The presents most commonly ‘recycled’ include tasteless or ill-fitting clothing (14 per cent/10 per cent), toiletries (8 per cent) and socks (6 per cent), with clueless friends and relatives forking out an average of £11 per gift. And amongst our nearest and dearest, mother-in-laws certainly don’t improve their infamous reputation at Christmas time – as they’re the family member most likely to give a poor present.  

ING Direct CEO Johan de Wit commented: “It’s a shame that so many gifts end up unused and unloved. However, our research did give us plenty to smile about, as charities will benefit.”

Britain’s ‘Most Unwanted’ gifts

1. Tasteless / badly fitting clothing
2. Books about a subject I have no interest in
3. DVD’s I’ll never watch
4. Toiletries
5. Novelty crockery
6. Socks
7. Bad aftershave/ perfume
8. Boring books
9. Tools
10 Jigsaw puzzles

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View the BBC's coverage of Christmas presents for 2009.