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Nielsen has expanded its telecom and mobile research division Nielsen Mobile, with the establishment of operations in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Russia. The firm plans additional expansion throughout Europe later this year. More
Nielsen has promoted Justin Sargent from Executive Commercial Director to UK MD. He succeeds Eleni Nicholas, who has taken on the role of Commercial Development Officer, Nielsen Europe while retaining her Group MD role for Nielsen's UK and Irish business. More
Reports in the UK suggest that the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) could be about to award its next £10m TV audience measurement contract to TNS/Arbitron. The current contract runs out in 2010. More
The Nielsen Company has laid off 1,250 of its staff, but says the losses are probably 'the last for some time' and the total of c.4,000 redundancies originally planned for 2007 will not be reached, according to Reuters. More
Ipsos and Nielsen have reported results for the first half of the year. Ipsos increased revenue by 8.7% over the year earlier period to €443.1m, while Nielsen's grew from $2,019m to $2,241m. More
The Nielsen Company has reported revenues for the first quarter of 2007 up 5% over the same period last year, helped by a strong performance (up 7%) from its Media Research division. More
ACNielsen Homescan & Spectra – the Nielsen unit that examines shopper attitudes – has unveiled its new Consumer & Shopper Insights Suite, promising in-depth syndicated analysis of actual consumer buying behaviour. More
Public relations veteran, Cheryl Pearson-McNeil has been promoted to the position of Senior VP, Communications, ACNielsen, from her previous role of VP, Communications & Community Affairs, Nielsen Media Research. More
A 'rush of economic optimism' and a continuing rise in income expectations has slowed the fall in GfK's German consumer climate index, while India still has the world's most confident consumers according to ACNielsen's 46-country study. More
VNU today continued its radical overhaul following its return to the private sector, by changing its name to 'The Nielsen Company'. The firm says the move 'emphasizes its best-known brand name and underscores its commitment to create an integrated, streamlined global organization'. More
ACNielsen has announced the establishment of an Industry Practice Group (IPG) for Leisure and Travel research in China, led by Dr. Grace Pan. The firm says it will 'aggressively expand' its services for the country's travel and leisure sectors, with tracking and in-depth analysis. More
ACNielsen has signed a new five-year agreement expanding its partnership with Dollar General, which operates more than 8,000 dollar stores. ACN will provide Account Level Services for the US retailer, including a Census level trade area which will be available to the vendor community. More
Most of the world has made New Year resolutions for 2007, according to ACNielsen. An online survey of more than 22,000 consumers in 46 countries found 56% of respondents resolved to do or change something, with exercising more and improving work–life balance topping the list. More
ACNielsen has announced a new classification system for the Middle East and North Africa region. The Living Standards Measurement (LSM) system will initially be introduced in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Morocco and Egypt. More
With the final shopping week before Christmas fast approaching, surveys from TNS and ACNielsen show that grocery sales are climbing, with record supermarket sales of £3 billion being forecast for next week. More
In the US, ACNielsen has announced a long-term alliance with NACS (the National Association of Convenience Stores), designed to provide comprehensive analysis of sales data for the convenience and petroleum market. More
As China's auto sales boom, a group of savvy car buyers is growing with strong opinions and in-depth knowledge, according to ACNielsen Automotive. The firm says marketers must find a more sophisticated strategy to reach them. More
World populations may be ageing, but consumers don't feel their age in the same way they used to, according to findings from ACNielsen. Majorities agree with the research firm's premises that 'your 40s are the new 30s' (60%), 'your 30s are the new 20s' (54%) and 'your 60s are the new middle age' (56%). More
ItemFinder, a new web-based service designed to satisfy customer "where to buy" needs for specific products, has been launched this week by ACNielsen in the US. The service provides access to over 38,000 stores across the food, drug, mass, dollar, and liquor channels. More
In a new acquisition move, ACNielsen has today acquired The Modeling Group (TMG), a leading marketing-mix modelling provider to the consumer packaged goods industry. The Modeling Group will become part of ACNielsen's Analytic Consulting global business unit. The financial terms of the deal have not been revealed. More
New product development consultant ACNielsen BASES has this week launched introSCAPE(TM), described by President Mitch Barns as 'the most significant improvement we've made to our core services in years.' The analytical framework is based on a proprietary model that describes the process by which consumers adopt new products. More
VNU has announced results for the three months ended June 30, dominated by an adjustment of Euros 71m for costs relating to the sale of the company in May. Excluding this, pro forma operating revenue was up 6% year on year in constant currency to Euros 943m, and operating income up 11% to Euros 114m. More
ACNielsen and consumer goods company Henkel have announced the completion of Minerva, 'one of Europe's most comprehensive and powerful data warehouses'. More
Global consumer confidence remains at 2005 levels, with consumers still cautious about spending, according to ACNielsen's Global Consumer Confidence Index. The most confident respondents were found in India, Norway and Denmark. More
The smoking ban in Scotland, which came into effect five months ago, has already had a 'major impact' on liquor sales through pubs in Scotland compared to the rest of the country, according to ACNielsen PubTrack. Food sales, however, have risen. More
ACNielsen announced yesterday that it has formed a new global unit, ACNielsen Loyalty. The unit will be headed by Tom Markert, currently Senior VP and CMO of VNU MI and ACNielsen; and Laurence Michael, currently Senior VP, Global Retailer Services Marketing. More
The world's keenest recreational shoppers are to be found in Asia, according to ACNielsen. The result comes from a recent global online survey about consumers' attitudes towards shopping. More
ACNielsen Global Services has launched Global Track in-sights, a multi-country reporting capability accessible via its Answers(TM) on-line platform. The service promises easy viewing and distribution of data throughout client companies. More
Media in India is gathering pace rapidly and is gaining progressive importance among key decision-makers, according to the latest Decision-Makers Survey 5 (DMS 5) conducted by ACNielsen ORG-MARG. More
Finland is the most expensive place in Europe for popular grocery products, while the cheapest countries are Germany and the Netherlands, according to new data from the twice-yearly ACNielsen Euro Price Barometer. The survey reveals huge differences across European countries. More
ACNielsen has added responsibility for Europe to the Asia Pacific role of its Executive Director, Corporate & Marketing Communications, Lisa Lee. The move promises closer alignment for the firm's global branding and marketing strategy. More
It's not just the Americans who are affected by rising fuel prices. New research from ACNielsen finds consumers throughout Europe have been forced to change their driving habits and cut down on living expenses to cope with spiralling fuel and petrol prices. More
Consumers' confidence in their local economies, job prospects and personal finances is on the rise across the world, according to the latest twice-yearly ACNielsen Consumer Confidence Index. Overall, confidence is highest in India and New Zealand, and lowest in Portugal. More
VNU today announced that the European Commission has ended its investigation into the contracting and pricing practices of the company's subsidiary ACNielsen, and has found no evidence of wrongdoing. More
Speakers from ACNielsen and the Asia Foundation told today's session at the ESOMAR Congress about the far-reaching implications of research to help voter education in Afghanistan. Other papers looked at MR's role in rebuilding democracy in the UK, and regenerating a South African township. More
The introduction of the Euro is contributing to a price convergence across Europe for many popular products, according to figures from ACNielsen. Norway is the most expensive country for the products studied, and Germany remains the cheapest, while France and the UK have the smallest range of prices. More
ACNielsen has introduced a new service to allow consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers to benchmark the progress of multi-country product launches, and to help them predict the likelihood of success. The service covers more than 90 countries worldwide. More
Four fifths of consumers in Europe, the Pacific and North America think that 'private label' or supermarket own-brands are a good alternative to other brands, according to ACNielsen's latest study. In developing markets, where own-label products are less well established, consumers are more likely to view them as inferior. More
ACNielsen has named Patrick Dodd as Group Managing Director for its newly created Central Europe business region. Meanwhile Lennart Bengtsson has been promoted to President of ACNielsen Emerging Markets. More
ACNielsen has appointed Todd R. Kaiser as Director – Custom Survey Research for its Homescan Marketing team. The company recently announced two new consumer insights services powered by Homescan, along with aggressive launch plans in Asia and Europe. More
ACNielsen has announced a senior appointment and a promotion as part of its expansion of consumer panel services across Europe. Tracie Seebold becomes Director of Consumer Panel, UK while Mike Harris joins as Business Development Director, Europe for Consumer Panels. More
European car owners show a strong preference for 'home grown' brands, according to the survey of car ownership and purchasing intentions conducted by ACNielsen [have to exclude the UK I suspect - Ed]. Globally, Toyota ranks as the number one car brand, but Volkswagen is top in Europe. More
ACNielsen will expand its European panel coverage from approximately 45,000 to just under 70,000 households by the end of 2006, the company announced this week. The expansion includes the key markets of the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Portugal. More
The UK is rapidly becoming a nation of wine drinkers, according to The Drink Pocket Book 2004, published this month. Since 1995, both consumption levels and imports have increased every year, and the volume of wine passed through HM Customs has increased by 55.4%. Brands from the New World and Southern Hemisphere are prominent. More
ACNielsen and Yahoo! have teamed up to launch Yahoo! Consumer Direct, Powered by ACNielsen, a new service that enables consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to reach consumers more effectively online and directly measure the offline sales impact of their efforts. More
Digital Download Day 2, the event organised by music company OD2 to raise the profile of legal Internet music downloads, can be considered a partial success, according to the latest figures from Nielsen//NetRatings. The April 18th event helped the website of the company sponsoring the event, OD2.com, attract 523,000 visitors during April to become the UK's fifth music website for that month. More
Online marketplace eBay has overtaken Amazon as the number one e-commerce site in the UK for the first time since Nielsen//NetRatings began reporting the behaviour of Briton's online population since March 2000. More
The American news sites cnn.com and news.google.com experienced the biggest monthly audience increases among UK surfers in March as Britons turned to the Internet to find different perspectives on the war in Iraq. Figures released this week by Nielsen//NetRatings show that the news sector as a whole saw a 25% jump in audience during March, with audiences peaking at 1.3 million on March 20th, the day war was declared. More
The online gaming sector in Europe is showing remarkable levels of growth, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings. In January 2003, 5.9 million Europeans visited an online games site on the Internet - more than double the 2.8 million surfers who visited sites in this sector in January last year. More
The run up to Christmas 2002 saw the strongest performance by Internet retailers in the UK, according to the latest data from Nielsen//NetRatings. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has announced its top websites of the year for 2002, based on continuous measurement of the audience and growth of the Internet in the UK, as well as analyst's own opinions and insight. More
In a new agreement, 150 part-time data collectors and three area coordinators in the UK are to have their employment contracts transferred from ACNielsen to ESA, the St Albans based retail research specialists. ESA is currently ACNielsen's first-choice supplier for outsourced fieldwork and will be contracted to supply much of the regular pricing and causal data collection. More
70% of the people who browsed online for products or services in the UK in the third quarter went on to make a purchase, the highest conversion rate of the ten major markets studied in the Nielsen//NetRatings Third Quarter 2002 Global Internet Trends Report. More
Online banking in Europe continues to grow, and is thriving in many markets, despite the current tough economic climate, according to the latest figures released by Nielsen//NetRatings. More
According to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings, the UK's most popular source for news and information is the news.bbc.co.uk, which regularly attracts a unique audience of at least two million visitors per month. In the last six months, its audience peaked in June 2002 when over three million people went to the site from home or work. More
According to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings, Nectar, the UK's newly launched loyalty scheme for Debenhams, Sainsbury's, BP and Barclaycard customers, attracted over 1.84 million visitors in its first month of launch. The websites of two of the partners in particular, Sainsbury and Barclaycard, experienced a 50% increase in traffic in September. More
Airline websites are more popular than ever in Europe, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings. Following September 11, the last quarter of 2001 saw the travel sector struggling economically, and there was speculation that the airline operations would be hit by a downturn. More
Latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings reveals that online map websites in Europe, such as multimap.com and streetmap.co.uk in the UK, mappy.com in France, map24.com in Germany and karthotellet.com in Sweden have experienced a growth of almost 300% in the last 12 months. More
Newly released research from Nielsen//NetRatings shows that the number of households using broadband Internet connections in the UK is lower than in any other country in Europe. More
The latest audience figures from Nielsen//NetRatings on the Internet and Channel 4's own TV audience figures show that the recent Big Brother TV series recorded unprecedented levels of interest on both the web and TV during May, June and July. More
Online estate agents in the UK have experienced a surge in visitors to their sites so far this year, and have been able to convert them into loyal customers, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings. More
In a further move towards concentration in the Internet panels sector, NetRatings has acquired ACNielsen eRatings.com and in a separate transaction, Jupiter Media Metrix's contracts for European Internet audience measurement. More
The fastest-growing, top 10 UK grocery brands today are Muller and Flora, both enjoying year-on-year sales growth of a fifth. Checkout magazine's new ranking also reveals a grocery market of intensifying competition, with 61 brands all gaining annual sales. More
New media research from ACNielsen has revealed the extent of ad revenue decline amongst Britain's national newspapers. The latest figures show that spend has probably fallen by 10% (some £21 million) year on year. Worst hit has been The Financial Times, with an alleged slip of around 40% in ad income. More
Coca-Cola is still the UK's biggest consumer brand, but Britons are developing a taste for health foods and Australian wine. This is the headline conclusion of the annual survey of the UK's top fifty brands conducted by ACNielsen and Marketing magazine. More
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