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  A. C. Nielsen Company
Nielsen Marketing Research is the larger part of the company, providing a variety of standard market analysis reports and engaging in other market research.
In 1973 Nielsen began using the Storage Instantaneous Audimeter, a new and more sophisticated design for the same purposes as the original (surely not the only modification over the years, this one was much publicized).
While the Audimeter, widely known as the Nielsen fl box, was their most famous device, it was used only for household television ratings.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/A/htmlA/acnielsen/acnielsen.htm   (886 words)

  
 :: Malaya - The National Newspaper ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen also said that the family continues to play a central role in the lives of those geriatric males and that they find joy and fulfillment in being and caring for their grandchildren.
AC Nielsen said that commercial strips showing a grandfather and toddler ordering food together at a popular fastfood or buying diapers and milk for their first grandson or granddaughter is sure to be a hit as elderly Filipinos adore children.
AC Neilsen also said that films and documentary producers are also sure to make a killing out of the country’s male geriatric populations as these persons spend most of their spare time watching television, documentary films and movies.
www.malaya.com.ph /jun09/busi3.htm   (374 words)

  
 Summary of AC Nielsen surveys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen reported that for the general public, "When initially presented with the proposal, reactions were mixed, with half considering it a good idea, compared with four in ten considering it a bad idea.
After reading an explanation of the reasons for the proposed change, there was a significant increase in support for the proposal, from half to two-thirds thinking it is a good idea.
AC Nielsen reported that, "The main reason for supporting the removal of the 5 cent coin was that they're a hassle to deal with." There would also be less work and sorting, and therefore reduced costs.
www.rbnz.govt.nz /currency/1587316.html   (376 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch > AC Nielsen invests Rs 100 million in hand held ...
AC Nielsen's Hand Held Terminal is a personal digital assistant embedded with proprietary software applications designed to capture retail sales data used by the country's marketing community.
AC Nielsen states that this move reaffirms its commitment to grow the industry as a market leader and deliver the best quality data to India's marketing community.
Data from 750 individual Hand Held Terminals will be transmitted from over 200 locations across the country to AC Nielsen's processing hub at Baroda and supported by a technology infrastructure using Compaq Unix and high-end servers for data storage and processing.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/sep/sep242.htm   (471 words)

  
 agencyfaqs! > news & features > Will AC Nielsen get to handle NRS?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Research agency AC Nielsen is said to have bagged the coveted National Readership Survey (NRS) assignment.
AC Nielsen and the combine of Raghu Roy and C R Sridhar of srs-icon were shortlisted for the coveted assignment.
According to sources in the know, the scales tipped in AC Nielsen's favour at the all-important NRSC meeting on the morning of September 24 in Mumbai.
www.agencyfaqs.com /news/stories/2004/09/27/9963.html   (304 words)

  
 Welcome to Nielsen.com
Nielsen Media Research is the world's leading provider of television audience measurement and related services.
Active in more than 40 countries, Nielsen Media Research offers television and radio audience measurement, print readership and custom media research services.
Nielsen Entertainment consists of businesses dedicated to providing information and analysis tools and marketing solutions to the global entertainment industry.
www.nielsen.com   (195 words)

  
 PCC - Printable Version
AC Nielsen.Consult in researching the Internet economy has established itself as the leader in Internet research and consulting to Asia-Pacific's companies, providing practical insight and guidance about Internet strategies.
AC Nielsen.consult has been researching consumers and businesses in the Asia-Pacific region since 1995.
AC Nielsen.consult's emphasis is on providing research-based integrated solutions to clients' e-commerce issues.
www.capstart.com.au /cap/html/cap_ac_neilson_p.html   (234 words)

  
 Corporate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The more recent development is that this research firm is taken over by AC Nielsen, an American multinational company, when it took over almost all of ORG-MARG operations the world over last year.
AC Nielsen itself is owned by VNU, a publishing and information company of the Netherlands.
It can coordinate research also in the regional level with the help of the wide network of AC Nielsen which has its presence in 110 countries of the world, claim the company officers.
www.nepalnews.com /contents/englishmonthly/businessage/2003/jan/corporatef.htm   (622 words)

  
 Global MR firms to board the outsourcing bandwagon
AC Nielsen, a VNU company has plans to set up a captive unit in the country. 
The unit, based in Mumbai, will be a division of AC Nielsen India and will not be a separate company.
For this purpose, we are talking to several AC Nielsen companies spread across the globe.
inhome.rediff.com /money/2004/may/18bpo.htm   (433 words)

  
 Computing Canada: AC Nielsen's decision support tool a Canadian creation - Workstation Plus - Product Announcement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen has been providing software products for over a decade: in the '80s the company came out with an electronic report book and DOS-based software.
In 1992, AC Nielsen Canada set out to find its place in the exploding world of data and this year Workstation Plus was born.
It's being exported to other AC Nielsen companies around the world, with particular interest coming from Belgium, Italy and France.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CGC/is_n23_v21/ai_17796500   (615 words)

  
 BackWeb - Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen-France is replacing its DOS-based legacy gateway with BackWeb technology to fulfill its need for a cost-effective, scalable, and reliable solution and to improve its legal requirements mandating that the company deliver its monthly research databases by committed deadlines.
With BackWeb technology, AC Nielsen-France's monthly databases representing gigabytes of data to deliver in three days, can now be seamlessly delivered and downloaded to its clients using BackWeb's patented Polite® communications technology.
This solution avoids disrupting the user by downloading content in the background during network idle time and closed-loop reporting technology further ensures that the users have received their databases by the required deadlines.
www.backweb.com /aboutus/news/press_releases/080602.cfm   (647 words)

  
 domain-B : Indian business : industries : AC Nielsen rates Ruchi Soya as fastest growing FMCG in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen rates Ruchi Soya as fastest growing FMCG in India
Mumbai: According to a syndicated retail audit research by AC Nielsen for the April 2004-March 2005, Ruchi Soya Industries Limited (RSIL) has been rated as the fastest growing FMCG company in the country with an annual growth of 62 per cent.
Commenting on the Nielsen rating, Dinesh Shahra, managing director, RSIL, said, "We are proud and delighted that RSIL has proved itself in the FMCG market.
www.domain-b.com /industry/general/20050628_growing.html   (300 words)

  
 agencyfaqs! > news & features > Partha Rakshit to take over from Farmery as AC Nielsen, South Asia MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Partha Rakshit, who is the managing director of AC Nielsen, India, will take over as the company's new South Asian head on December 1, 2004.
Apart from Rakshit and Farmery, the core team at AC Nielsen comprises executive directors Sarang Panchal and Sujit Das Munshi, who are in charge of custom research and retail research respectively.
AC Nielsen's clients are primarily from the FMCG and consumer durables sectors.
www.agencyfaqs.com /news/stories/2004/11/23/10330.html   (202 words)

  
 FT.com - Special Reports / Creative Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
So, in a move that has angered Nielsen, iTV set out to show that the ratings were "wrong".
From this covert operation, iTV then concluded that the AC Nielsen survey focused too heavily on low-income viewers, resulting in skewed ratings that did not accurately reflect its programmes' popularity.
And just to drive home the point, it invited TV and newspaper journalists to tour several AC Nielsen households in Thailand's most impoverished province.
specials.ft.com /creativebusiness/feb052002/FT3G925DAXC.html   (303 words)

  
 Nielsen Media Research
'Digital Household' To Be Released by Nielsen Entertainment Reports
Nielsen Offers Clients Direct Access to Minute-by-Minute Ratings
Read President and CEO Susan Whiting's welcome message.
www.nielsenmedia.com   (33 words)

  
 UK heads the way in European private label market
According to the twice-yearly AC Nielsen survey two thirds of global consumers consider private label or supermarket own brands to be a good alternative — a figure that was even more pronounced in the more developed market of North America and Western Europe, where as many as 4 out of 5 respondents agreed with this.
Indeed Marks & Spencer food products are consistently given top marks by consumers for quality, a fact that was endorsed by another AC Nielsen survey that gave the supermarket brand the best rating for overall quality earlier this year.
Frank Martell, CEO of AC Nielsen Europe, pointed out that when it comes to products such as dog food and every day ingredients such as flour, butter and sugar, consumers are generally happy with the quality.
www.foodnavigator.com /news/news-ng.asp?n=61868-own-private-labels   (901 words)

  
 TV rating agencies get together
Officials of AC Nielsen India said that since ORG-Marg and AC Nielsen are internationally part of the Dutch VNU group, the TV audiences services in the country will be combined to provide better coverage.
Since ORG-Marg's INTAM and AC Nielsen/IMRB's TAM Media Research cannot be immediately merged due to some earlier agreements with the Indian partners, only the services are being merged.
According to an official statement, AC Nielsen, KMR and IMRB (the latter two are part of the WPP Group) have agreed to form a joint venture to offer comprehensive measurement of television audiences and advertising expenditures in the country.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/10/31/stories/14318708.htm   (370 words)

  
 ACNielsen Australia
Commercial electronic media developed earlier in Australia than Europe, at a rate of pace very much in line with the US, making the strategic planning and buying of media for advertising and promotional purposes more complex.
ACNielsen's sister company, Nielsen Media Research, has a thorough understanding of your research needs - planning, organising and managing a wide range of research services for the media industry.
To view the range of information and products visit the Nielsen Media Research website: www.nielsenmedia.com.au or click here to be redirected to the relevant page regarding the media industry.
www.acnielsen.com.au /industry.asp?industryID=4   (274 words)

  
 Rabobank New Zealand | Knowledge Services | Rural Confidence Survey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The AC Nielsen/Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey is a bi-monthly survey, canvassing the opinion of 1500 farmers on AC Nielsen's regular Farm Market Index panel.
It is the first business and economic survey of its kind to focus on the agricultural sector in New Zealand.
By teaming up with AC Nielsen, the world's leading market research company - and, more specifically, the only one in New Zealand with a specialist rural division - we know that the research provides a rigorous measure of sentiment within the rural sector.
www.rabobank.co.nz /knowledge_services/research_consulting/rural_confidence_survey   (125 words)

  
 AC Nielsen (NZ) Ltd : AC Nielsen, a VNU business, is the world's leading: NZ Business Directory (New Zealand)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen (NZ) Ltd : AC Nielsen, a VNU business, is the world's leading: NZ Business Directory (New Zealand)
AC Nielsen, a VNU business, is the world's leading marketing information company.
Clients rely on AC Nielsen's market research, proprietary products, analytical tools and professional service to understand competitive performance, to uncover new opportunities and to raise the profitability of their marketing and sales campaigns.
www.ubd.co.nz /company-profiles/206666393   (108 words)

  
 Justice Closes Investigation Into the Way AC Nielsen Co. Contracts Its Services for Tracking Retail Sales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Department's Antitrust Division had been investigating whether Nielsen, in contracting with multinational customers, illegally bundled or tied the terms of contracts in one country with those in other countries.
Nielsen, one of the largest sellers of retail sales tracking services of consumer packaged goods, formally committed to the European Commission that it will not tie or link the terms of its contracts with customers in one country to the terms of contracts for similar services in other countries.
Because of the formal commitments, called undertakings, that Nielsen gave to the European Commission, the Department has concluded that the practices it has been investigating will not continue, and thus is closing its investigation.
www.usdoj.gov /atr/public/press_releases/1996/1031.htm   (501 words)

  
 AC Nielsen Co. moving jobs to Covington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen Co. and AC Nielsen Market Decisions have signed a 10-year lease agreement with Corporex Cos., said Ella Frye, Covington's economic development director.
It will move 125 employees formerly based in Cincinnati into two floors of theoffice complex at 50 W. RiverCenter Blvd. That workforce is projected to grow to 169 by 2003, Ms.
Through the Covington Jobs Development Act, AC Nielsen will be eligible for a 40 percent payroll tax abatement for five years, Ms.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/12/16/loc_ac_nielsen_co_moving.html   (146 words)

  
 OR gets top marks from AC Nielsen for achieving business and value objectives
Outdoor Retailer, the world's leading outdoor trade expo, is releasing findings from a recent project and "Return on Objective" survey conducted by AC Nielsen International Research.
The survey was designed to evaluate retailers' objectives for attending Outdoor Retailer tradeshows and to define elements of the show they consider most valuable.
Conducted by AC Nielsen International Research, computer assisted telephone interviews were carried out three weeks following the 2003 Summer Market.
www.outdoorretailer.com /or/press/article_display_summer.jsp?vnu_content_id=2076213   (678 words)

  
 NetRatings/Jupiter Media Metrix and AC Nielsen eRatings.com
With the AC Nielsen transaction, Net-Ratings assumes full ownership of AC Nielsen eRatings.com.
The operation was previously a joint venture Internet audience and measurement company with 80.1 percent owned by AC Nielsen and 19.9 percent owned by NetRatings.
In corporate, associate Maureen Harrison led the firm's negotiating team on the secured loan facility for Jupiter Media, and associate Edward Batts coordinated the due diligence teams on both transactions.
www.law.com /regionals/ca/stories/edt1101_deal.shtml   (360 words)

  
 Xak.com: Aldi Is Europe's Strongest Retail Brand, AC Nielsen Survey Says
Aldi Group, Germany's biggest discount- food retailer, is Europe's strongest retail brand, according to a survey of consumers conducted by AC Nielsen.
About 47 percent of shoppers in Germany said they have an Aldi store within 1 kilometer of their home, AC Nielsen senior analyst Jean Jacques Vandenheede said in an interview.
The European Shopper Trends survey was conducted in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Austria in summer 2004, Vandenheede said.
www.xak.com /main/newsshow.asp?id=40972   (217 words)

  
 AC Nielsen - Australians switch to low GI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
AC Nielsen - Australians switch to low GI Subscribers:
More than half of Australian consumers would switch brands in favour of products with a glycemic index (GI) symbol, according to a new report by AC Nielsen.
Researchers involved in the project believe that Australians’ awareness of GI is possibly the highest in the world.
www.bandt.com.au /news/75/0c02f575.asp   (209 words)

  
 UCLA Asia Institute: TAIWAN: AC Neilson's domination of TV ratings research ends
Four terrestrial TV stations yesterday signed a deal with local TV ratings and research firm Broadcasters Market Research Co, ending AC Nielsen's decades-long monopoly on TV research in this country.
US-based AC Nielsen had dominated the TV research business in this country since 1982.
According to Broadcasters Market Research, TV stations began to question the accuracy of AC Nielsen's rating reports and were not pleased with the responses they received, prompting them to seek alternatives.
www.isop.ucla.edu /asia/article.asp?parentid=5737   (371 words)

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