Rick Spalding
Director of Away from Home Marketing
Fishery Products International
Fishery Products International procures, processes, and markets seafood with an eye on maintaining its position as a leading seafood supplier for the foodservice, retail, and warehouse club markets. Innovation and keeping ahead of industry trends are priorities.
The NPD Group, leading provider of consumer and retail information, and TNS, a world leader in market information, announced that NPD has acquired the foodservice tracking businesses of TNS in the UK and Spain. The deal was completed March 31. The firms also announced plans to cooperate on the development of special reports combining their information on food consumption trends in Great Britain and the use by NPD of TNS’ 6th dimension European access panels.
Source: The NPD Group/Segmenting the Bridal Market, January 2007
Nearly half of brides register online for products they may never have handled or seen "in person." They rely only on pictures, descriptions, prices, and reviews they find online. To learn more about this report, e-mail contactnpd@npd.com
By Takayuki Fujiyoshi, Executive Director, and Junichi Togami, Client Development
Since Japan’s first convenience store, 7-Eleven, was born in 1974, the convenience store industry has grown rapidly. The stores’ round-the-clock hours, convenient location, and shelves stocked with necessities truly changed the Japanese lifestyle. But now that more than 40,000 of them dot the landscape, the industry faces saturation. Chains are scrambling for market share – and NPD’s CREST Japan data shows the big competitors’ market share is falling.
It's possible that Nintendo's Wii could do the same for gesture recognition. Four months after this revolutionary system arrived in the U.S., it is still trouncing the competition, according to market researcher NPD Group Inc. And it is cropping up in communities that never appreciated video games.
Burgers for Everyone -- Except ElvisBurgers are a good bet. They're the most-ordered entree at a restaurant, according to the NPD Group, which tracks people's eating patterns.
Microsoft Adds Muscle to Xbox 360Xbox 360 was the No. 2 U.S. video game console after Nintendo Co.'s Wii in January and February, according to data from market researcher NPD Group.
For the first time in a decade, makeup has taken over as the top prestige beauty category in the U.S., according to leading consumer and retail information provider The NPD Group. In 2006, prestige makeup sold $3.1 billion and now makes up the largest dollar share of the prestige beauty industry, toppling fragrance, with 37 percent of sales. In the last decade, since NPD has been tracking the industry, the dollar share in the prestige beauty industry has shifted, and makeup has increased 66 percent over 1997's dollar volume. Prestige fragrance generated $2.9 billion in 2006 and now makes up 35 percent of beauty dollars, down from 45 percent in 1997. Prestige makeup went from 30 percent of sales in 1997 to 37 percent in 2006.
Independent Installers Beating Big Box Retailers on Tech Service Support Computer Service Departments (Tech Benches) At Retail Outlets Are Having A Growing Impact On Software Sales