Housewares retailers and suppliers should reconsider the use of market research as a fundamental part of their business and make efforts to better understand where critical information resides and review it regularly. Leigh Ann Schwarzkopf, the founder of Project...
The NPD Group and Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) have agreed to merge in a deal that brings together a pair of global market data and analytics leaders covering the retail and consumer products industries. The combination will offer clients a view of retail...
The NPD Group, a global market information provider, announced that global private equity firm Hellman & Friedman (H&F) has made a binding offer and entered into an exclusive agreement to acquire NPD. NPD, founded in 1966, is reported to be the eighth largest...
