Sports & Leisure Trends Market Research & Business Solutions

The NPD Group has the largest POS footprint in the industry. NPD collects weekly and monthly sales data from over 30,000 doors globally, spanning all industry channels of distribution, including independent specialty stores, sport specialty stores, sporting goods, department stores, mass merchants, and ecommerce. This allows you to continuously monitor sales of men’s, women’s, and children’s sports apparel, footwear, equipment, and accessories.

The Retail Tracking Service delivers the most detailed point-of-sale information available to guide your critical business decisions. Standard measures available at the category, brand, and item levels include unit sales/share, dollar sales/share, and average selling price. Advanced measures available for specialty channels include inventory, margins, and GMROI.

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Stay on top of shifting preferences and trends with insights from consumer panelists who have agreed to provide information about their purchasing habits, usage, and attitudes.  You can use this information to analyze consumer behavior, preferences, and purchase drivers as input for product development, brand management, and marketing strategies.

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Identify and reach specific consumer groups so you can efficiently target and capture your most valuable consumers. Use NPD’s Athletic and Outdoor Segmentation to drive more sales using targeted messaging. It also can help you refine your merchandising mix and assortment once you understand the differences among key consumer segments. Seven athletic segments and four outdoor segments are included.

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Assess regional strengths and opportunities, monitor competitive performance by region, and plan and evaluate effectiveness of targeted activities. Call on NPD’s insight into retail sales in specific regions or store groupings using Geo Level information from our Retail Tracking Service.

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For years, the packaged goods industry has benefited from category management practices which facilitate collaboration and drive category growth and profits for both retailers and manufacturers.Now, we are bringing the same advantage to the general merchandise industries by providing retailers and their approved vendors with Account Level Reports (ALRs), one data set to guide business decision making and improve results by:

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Identify what drives brand and category growth or decline. Profile your brand and gauge relative health compared to category and competition.

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Select the best product or support program and improve program execution. Understand performance of all marketing programs relative to each other.

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Making the right pricing decisions has never been more important – or more complex. It’s essential to understand price sensitivity and the impact of price changes relative to your portfolio and key competitors.

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Understand how future market size and growth will change the landscape in your business, generating both challenges and opportunities.

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Consumers have more choices than ever leading to changing buying habits and attitudes toward brands and products. Assess performance and brand composition relative to competition.

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Custom market research lets you go straight to consumers for answers to your product development, advertising, packaging, and other business questions. Many of our clients say the best part of doing custom research with us is that they 
don’t need to spend money and time building a sample and doing the fieldwork – we do it for them.

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