October 7, 2019 by Bill Schiffner
Bryan Gildenberg, Cardinal Health, Caron Merrill, CVS Health, Dan Stanek, Elliot Lasky, Global Market Development Center, GMDC, Kantar, Liz Tarpinian, Mark Mechelse, Naomi Duvall, Nature's Bounty Co., Nielsen, Patrick Spear, Ryan Olohan, Sarah Schmansky, Selfcare Summit, SPINS, Unilever North America, Xochitl Javier
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News, Topics
INDIANAPOLIS — This past weekend the Global Market Development Center | Retail Tomorrow (GMDC) held its inaugural Selfcare Summit 2019 conference, a three-day business development and educational event focused on the “consumerization” of health care and its impact on the future of retail here. The summit replaced GMDC’s annual Health Beauty Wellness (HBW) Conference to
August 19, 2019 by Bruce Kerr
Alibaba, Amazon, Bruce Kerr, E-retailers, Nielsen
2019, Issue 08-19-2019, Issues
The confluence of bricks and clicks continues to grow as physical retailers buy and code their way to a stronger online presence and digital retailers buy and build their way to a stronger physical presence. E-retailers like Amazon and Alibaba may capture the majority of the headlines in the press, but the ultimate winners in
April 22, 2019 by MMR
Nielsen, Private Label Manufacturers Association, store brands
Leading Headlines, Retail News, Supplier News
NEW YORK — Store brands are proving to be a powerful weapon for mass merchandisers, club stores and dollar stores as they compete against both Amazon and other brick and mortar retailers the Private Label Manufacturers Association reported Monday. An analysis of the latest Nielsen data reveals that private label dollar volume in the mass retail channel
April 24, 2018 by MMR
Acosta, Global Market Development Center, GMDC, Nielsen, Tom Duffy
People, Retail News
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Industry veteran Tom Duffy has been named vice president of member development at the Global Market Development Center (GMDC). He will focus primarily on expanding the association’s reach within the retail and consumer product industry in order to create the best global network of those in the health, beauty, wellness and general
February 19, 2018 by MMR
FMI, Food Marketing Institute, Nielsen
2018, Issue 02-19-2018, Issues
ARLINGTON, Va. — Two recent studies indicate that household penetration of online grocery shopping is picking up steam. One, a joint project of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Nielsen, projects that in five to seven years 70% of Americans will be grocery shopping online. Last year FMI and Nielsen issued their first-year findings, which
January 29, 2018 by Scot Meyer
“Digitally Engaged Food Shopper”, Chris Morley, FMI chief collaboration officer Mark Baum, FMI's Midwinter Conference, Food Marketing Institute, grocery shopping online, Nielsen
Leading Headlines, Retail News, Topics
MIAMI — Within five to seven years, 70% of U.S. consumers will be doing at least some of their grocery shopping online, according to research findings released by the Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen at the FMI’s Midwinter Conference here. The second-year findings of the “Digitally Engaged Food Shopper” study estimates that American consumers will be
January 24, 2018 by MMR
Global Market Development Center, GM Hierarchy, GMDC, Nielsen, Retail Insights LLC
Leading Headlines, Retail News
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A resource tool originally designed to help Global Market Development Center (GMDC) members track and understand marketplace data has been upgraded to provide a more intuitive user experience and deeper levels of analytics. The updated GM Hierarchy was launched on Wednesday by GMDC in partnership with Nielsen and Retail Insights LLC.
November 10, 2017 by MMR
Jet.com, Nielsen, POS data, Walmart, Walmart One Version of Truth
Leading Headlines, Supplier News
NEW YORK — Nielsen announced Thursday that it had been named Walmart’s preferred provider of point-of-sale data, and was expanding its partnership with the giant retailer. Nielsen chief executive officer Mitch Barns shared details of the arrangement during the the company’s Investors Day conference. According to Barns, Nielsen and Walmart are teaming up to create
June 26, 2017 by MMR
Fred’s Inc., Nielsen
Retail News
NEW YORK — Fred’s Inc. and Nielsen recently announced an expansion of their long-term relationship with the renewal of data insights and analytics services. With this agreement, Nielsen will become the exclusive account-level data provider for Fred’s, covering metrics for all 601 Fred’s stores in 15 states across the southeastern U.S., as well as future
January 9, 2017 by Rob Hill
Nielsen, Nielsen Connected System, Rob Hill
2017, Issue 01-09-2017, Issues, Opinion
We are living through a time of creative experimentation: Retailers are innovating with new store sizes and formats, technology companies are building a physical presence, brick-and-mortar retailers are leveraging digital programs to connect with their shoppers, and everyone competes for the consumer share of stomach. Retailers have become manufacturers by building out private label programs
March 21, 2016 by MMR
National Grocers Association, Nielsen
2016, Issue 03-21-2016, Issues
ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Grocers Association released top-line results earlier this month from its consumer trends study, which for the first time segments independent supermarket shoppers from national chain shoppers. The consumer trends study was conducted online by Nielsen on behalf of NGA from December 7 through December 22, 2015, among 1,525 U.S. adults