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...ACNielsen grocery industry data showed strong demand for Unilever ice cream and deodorant, meaning it was able to add market share in a shrinking Western European market....
...Cake sales for the Mr Kipling owner rose 7 per cent for March, ACNielsen reported. Leading the FTSE 100 risers, BP climbed 1.2 per cent to 479.4p....
...Consumer goods industry data from ACNielsen on Friday suggested Unilever’s food business was losing share in a tough European market....
...Reckitt Benckiser lost 1.6 per cent to £33.85 after industry data from ACNielsen suggested the soap maker had lost European market share in May....
...As a welcome side-effect, the TNS deal also makes WPP the global research sector’s number two – behind ACNielsen. Few companies, however, are likely to follow this lead....
...The latest ACNielsen survey showed 61 per cent of voters favouring Labor under the country’s tangled system of “preferences” against 39 per cent for Mr Howard’s Liberal party....
...Mr Rudd has an approval rating of 65 per cent, the highest for a Labor leader in 35 years, according to the most recent ACNielsen survey, published on Monday in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper....
...In the latest ACNielsen poll published on Monday in Fairfax newspapers, 48 per cent of respondents named Mr Rudd as their preferred prime minister, compared with 43 per cent for Mr Howard....
...VNU, whose businesses include ACNielsen market research and Billboard magazine, was bought for €7.6bn in May, by a consortium of six private equity groups including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Carlyle Group...
...In 2001, VNU took over ACNielsen and became world market leader in information on fast-moving consumer goods purchases....
...However, the two big purchases that made this possible, ACNielsen and Nielsen Media Research, have not covered their cost of capital. VNU group last year made a 4 per cent return on book equity....
...Mr Deromedi said price rises introduced this year to retailers averaging 5.1 per cent versus the prior year, according to ACNielsen had started to filter through to consumers....
...Last year Coke sold some 1.7bn litres of soft drinks to consumers to take home, more than double Britvic’s 758m litres, according to ACNielsen, the market research company....
...Elsewhere, IMS Health gained 2.9 per cent to $24.09 after VNU of the Netherlands, the owner of market researcher ACNielsen, agreed to scrap its $6.3bn takeover of the US health care data provider because...
...The proposed service would bring together two market research companies Arbitron of the US and VNU, Dutch parent of ACNielsen to study tens of thousands of consumers....
...P&G is backing a new approach called Project Apollo, a joint venture between two big market research companies, Arbitron of the US and VNU, Dutch owner of ACNielsen....
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