Worcester Refutes Misleading Statement from MORI US President 26/06/00 Robert Worcester, Executive Chairman of the MORI Group, has refuted a recent statement put out by Dr Miguel Basanez on the Internet as incorrect and misleading. Instead of selling MORI and retiring, as indicated in Dr Basanez's announcement, Robert Worcester continues as Executive Chairman of MORI Group and retains a 20% shareholding of the MORI Group, with 38% now in the hands of 116 MORI staff members. Thus MORI continues to have a majority of its shares held by employees, and is the only company in Britain's top ten market research companies to be employee owned. In fact, it is the case that the Board of Directors has dismissed Dr. Basanez from his post as President of MORI USA. The MORI Group regrets this action has had to be taken after more than a ten-year association with Dr. Basanez. Dr. Basanez intends to carry on his survey research activities in the USA through his new company, Global Quality Research Corporation, and his Mexican activities through Centro de Estudio de Opinion Publica.