CHICAGO — IRI has launched the IRI Intelligence Suite, a cloud-native solution powered by IRI Liquid Data, which enables CPG manufacturers, retailers and media partners to combine their proprietary data and data science capabilities with IRI’s assets and build their own applications in an easy-to-use, safe cloud environment. By consolidating insights from previously disparate data
CHICAGO — IRI said it is leveraging a 1.5-million-member receipt panel, recently obtained through IRI’s acquisition of CoinOut, to build the most complete and accurate omnichannel offerings in market: IRI OmniMarket and IRI OmniConsumer. Integrating receipt panel data from CoinOut — which provides coverage of all critical channels in the omnichannel universe, including beauty, pet,
CHICAGO – IRI announced on Thursday a significant expansion of its omnichannel measurement capabilities to offer complete coverage of the omnichannel universe with the launch of two new solutions: IRI OmniMarket and IRI OmniConsumer. “These two new solutions represent the first omnichannel measurement, at scale, for our industry,” said Andrew Appel, president and CEO of IRI. “We
CHICAGO — IRI announced Tuesday the appointment of Kirk Perry, Google’s president of Global Client & Agency Solutions, as president and CEO and a member of its board of directors, effective May 17, 2021. Perry succeeds Andrew Appel, who has successfully led a transformation of IRI for nearly a decade. Appel will remain an Advisor
CHICAGO — IRI announced that it has acquired Intelligent Shopper Solutions (ISS), a leading retail consumer insight provider that enables collaboration between retailers and suppliers, from Kognitiv Corp. As part of the transaction, IRI also entered a partnership agreement with Kognitiv, a B2B technology organization headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, which is a world leader in collaborative commerce
CHICAGO — COVID-related shifts in consumer shopping and consumption behavior helped drive total CPG industry growth of roughly 10.4% in 2020, significantly outpacing the prior three-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.8%, according to a study from IRI and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The ninth annual CPG study from IRI and BCG also looks
CHICAGO — The COVID-19 pandemic has created a flourishing demand for self-care products as consumers take their health care into their own hands. The latest IRI research, “Vitamins, Minerals, Herbal Supplements Propel Self-Care,” examines consumers’ desire for a healthy, vibrant lifestyle as they await their COVID-19 vaccine. While nearly 13% of U.S. residents have received a
CHICAGO — COVID-19 vaccines have begun in the United Kingdom and Canada, and the start of vaccines in the United States is set to follow very soon. Strong adoption of vaccinations will increase consumer confidence and speed up social mobility, ultimately driving economic growth. IRI’s latest report, “Anticipated Vaccine Adoption and Impact on CPG Industry,”
CHICAGO — IRI has launched a new Integrated Fresh solution that tracks sales of random-weight as well as traditional UPC items that can be shared across the industry with retailers and manufacturers to give a more holistic view of the store. Integrated Fresh is described as the first fact-based data definition of departments, such as
CHICAGO — The arrival of colder weather and the resurgence of COVID-19 has consumers rethinking their holiday plans. People will hold smaller gatherings if they gather at all; they’ll buy more turkey and fewer whole birds, and they’ll avoid celebrating at restaurants, although they will continue to get take out. These are the findings of
CHICAGO – IRI said it is acquiring Retail Solutions Inc. (RSi), a provider of supply chain and media solutions for consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers. IRI said the acquisition bolsters its Liquid Data technology platform, used to offer supply-chain solutions and which serves as a repository of consumer data assets vital to the CPG
CHICAGO — IRI on Monday launched a proprietary, fully automated forecasting solution that anticipates consumer demand at multiple time intervals through the end of 2021. IRI CPG Demand Index Forecasts will project the impact of complex, interdependent factors on consumer demand, including pandemic persistence, lifestyle shifts, in-home versus out-of-home consumption patterns, consumer sentiment, channel shifts,