On the forefront of choice, Uncle Maddio’s Pizza Joint, the original fast casual pizza franchise, adds a gluten-free dessert to its menu of more than 5-milion options. Seeing the demand for gluten-free foods increase, the company ...
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The NPD Group, Inc., a global information company, has announced John Deputato as the new President of Apparel for the US practice area. Deputato, formerly the Senior Vice President at The NPD Group, Inc. Analytics and Modeling practice ...
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The NPD Group to Acquire Leisure Trends Retail Sales Tracking and Consumer Research for Sports and Recreation The NPD Group, Inc., a global information company, has signed an agreement to acquire the retail sales tracking and consumer ...
The NPD Group has agreed to buy Leisure Trends Group, a Boulder-based market research company that tracks retail and wholesale sales and inventory figures in the bike industry. The NPD Group, based in Port Washington, N.Y., offers market ...
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Microsoft today announced it's struck a deal with Best Buy to create 600 stores-within-stores in the U.S. and Canada to sell customers on Windows 8, the Surface tablet line, and new PCs and devices from other OEMs. The move, which ...
Turtle Beach is working with Microsoft to develop market-leading audio solutions for Xbox One. The two companies will leverage their proprietary technology and experience in gaming to bring advanced audio solutions to consumers. Under the ...
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The NPD Group reports that Kids' Activewear Grew In Double-Digits; Activewear outpaced the total kids' apparel market. The NPD Group, a global information company, reports that the total kids' apparel market was worth an estimated $30 ...
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Whether it was the weather or just a slowdown in several performance categories, the athletic footwear market fell a modest 1.4% during the first three months of 2013 to $3,414.8 million from $3,463.0 million. The data showed that unit ...
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Microsoft yesterday took a swipe at long-time partner Adobe for the latter's wholesale shift to rent-not-buy software subscriptions, and along the way seemed to promise it would continue to offer Office as old-school perpetual licenses for ...
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Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Microsoft's radical overhaul of Windows has been cited by some to explain plummeting PC shipments, but the very ...
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Google's move this week to make it easier for Chrome browser users to find "packaged apps," Chrome OS's souped-up Web apps, is part of its strategy to turn any Internet-capable device into a Chromebook wannabe loyal to the company's ...
Microsoft is expected to unveil a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles next month. Microsoft sent out invitations yesterday to the May 21 event at its main campus in Redmond, Washington at which its Xbox team will reveal a "new ...
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Apple's Mac has been punished by shifting consumer tastes just as has the overall PC industry, data from the company's earnings statements show. But in the end, Apple may not care. "I think PC, and Mac, volumes will continue to shrink ...
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The NPD Group, Inc., a global information company, released results from its Consumer Tracking Service for 2012. The U.S. men’s apparel market grew 1 percent in 2012 with total sales of 57 billion dollars with the average selling ...
Tags: Apparel Market, Apparel
Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst said today. "It wasn't about Windows 8, it was much more about the price challenges facing OEMs," said Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, citing U.S. retail sales data the firm ...
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