Retailer Center, provided by NPD, is the convenient online location where our valued retailer partners can link to all of the reports, databases and NPD services they have access to. NPD services include the NPD "World" sites, and MusicWatch.

NPD is dedicated to providing reliable information and insights so our retail partners can make informed business decisions. Leveraging NPD's innovative market information, The Retail Business Group works with retailers to drive strategic and tactical decision making.

As a result, NPD data becomes the currency for discussion between retailers and their vendor partners, which drives all strategic and tactical choices in the industries we track.

http://www.retailercenter.com/

Retail areas & industries covered:

Apparel, Appliances, Athletic Footwear, Automotive, Beauty, Consumer Electronics, Food, Fashion Footwear, Housewares, Information Technology, Music, Toys, Video Games

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Retailer Comparison Reports:
Executive Summary Highlight Reports Market Comparison Report NPD MusicWatch
Apparel
Appliances
Athletic Footwear
Automotive
Beauty
CE
Food
Fashion Footwear
Housewares
IT
Music
Software
Toys
Video Games

Tools:
Products NPD PowerView® Solution Folders®
Apparel
Appliances
Athletic Footwear
Automotive
Beauty
CE
Food
Fashion Footwear
Housewares
IT
Music
Software
Toys
Video Games

Retailer Comparison Reports:
Provides easy access to comparative point-of-sale information, organized around key business issues to help clients quickly zero in on critical market intelligence. Each Solution Folder ® is interactive, so the user can choose the time periods, product categories or other variables that are most meaningful to him or her.

Executive Summary:
Monthly industry top-line point-of-sale report with key charts and graphs that depict current month, year-to-date and year-over-year performance with category-, brand- and item- level detail. Top-line analyses provide retailers with competitive channel insights. Depending on the industry, report may include top-line consumer data.

Highlight Reports:
Monthly point-of-sale reports with key charts and graphs that depict total market information for the current month, year-to-date and year-over-year performance, with category-, brand- and item-level detail.

Market Comparison Reports:
Excel-based point-of-sale report that assists retailers in identifying opportunities by directly comparing the retailers' sales performance to their channels of distribution at the category, brand and item levels.

NPD MusicWatch:
Online reporting tool that provides clients a world of insights into how their customers relate to music. NPD MusicWatch tracks what music is being purchased, down to the artist/genre level. Consumers report what influences them to buy, the importance of downloading, and how they listen to music (i.e. radio vs. burned CDs). Retailers benefit from understanding market share, buyer demographics, pricing at the album level, importance of gift giving and retail customer satisfaction.

NPD PowerView®:
Deep-dive tool for in-depth data analysis. Available in a Windows-based data processing and analysis software program that allows you to manipulate consumer and point-of-sale data.

Solution Folders® :
Web-based products that represent logical groupings of data. Designed to provide retailers with dynamic, drill-down capabilities using point-of-sale and consumer information. Part of NPD's World technology.

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http://www.markintell.com/display/ShowPost?moduleId=775504&discussionId=14615&postId=163829#post163829

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