August 1, 2010
Even in a down economy, fashion accessories are still within the reach of many consumers and are the answer for women looking to update their look without putting a big strain on their wallets.
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June 1, 2010
By:Anita Frazier
Massively multi-player online games (MMOGs) are a unique gaming genre offering the ability to interact and play with hundreds to thousands of players. NPD's recent online gaming 2010 study, fielded in January 2010, shows how the landscape has changed over the past few years. Three years of trending shows that the incidence of gamers playing MMOGs on PCs has decreased by 6 percent since the 2008 study. Perhaps this decline is due to consumers moving to other types of games or entertainment media.
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May 1, 2010
Home is where the heart is for dinnertime in 81 percent of U.S. households, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. The NPD food and beverage market research study finds that home is the most popular location for eating dinner and 47 percent of consumers report eating dinner with everyone in their household every night of the week.
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March 1, 2010
Licensing in the housewares and dinnerware categories remains strong with celebrity chefs continuing to lend their names to product lines. A number of chefs recently threw their toques into the category debuting product lines on the Home Shopping Channel.
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November 1, 2009
The United States is the world's top toy market, contributing $21.7 billion in sales.
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September 1, 2009
The NPD Group, a market research firm that continually tracks America's eating patterns, took a look into the future of eating in a new report, and finds that there will be a whole lot of snacking going on over the next decade. The new study, entitled "A Look into The Future of Eating," reports that in-home snacking—morning, mid-day and evening, but especially morning—will outpace population growth over the next decade.
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August 1, 2009
In today's most challenging of times for the apparel business, there is a glimmer of hope. Hope that brands and licensed products have a better road to recovery than non-branded and private label products.
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March 1, 2009
It's no surprise to see consumer purchase behavior shift during challenging economic times. Although small appliance sales declined in 2008—almost across the board—there are differences among the key segments.
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December 1, 2008
Despite a slowdown in U.S. sales and rising competition from vertical segments such as video games, worldwide toy market sales topped $71.96 billion in 2007, a 5 percent increase over the $68.5 billion generated in 2006, according to The NPD Group. At the current pace, NPD expects worldwide toy sales to top $86.3 billion in 2010.
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