22/05/2013 - The Independent

Morrisons has finally started to show signs of recovery, after a sustained period of weak trading.
The Bradford-based grocer grew its sales by 2.1 per cent in the four weeks to 12 May, a marked improvement on flat or falling revenue for much of the last year, Kantar Worldpanel says.

22/05/2013 - The Jakarta Globe

Purchasing fast-moving consumer goods is a daily habit of many Indonesians. The proximity of traditional stores like warungs and markets have turned Indonesians into frequent purchasers.
According to Kantar Worldpanel Indonesia, the number of purchases of FMCG products reached 425 times a year on average for urban households, even excluding fresh food items. That is more than one purchase act every day.

08/05/2013 - Food Manufacture

he number one global food brand is Nestlé’s Maggi range of instant soups, stocks, sauces, taste enhancers and noodles, according to Kantar Worldpanel. Unilever’s Knorr brand came second while PepsiCo’s Lay’s brand was third.

08/05/2013 - The Jakarta Globe

Nine of ten leading brands belong to Indonesian companies as foreign rivals struggle to make inroads with the country’s consumers, according to a global survey by Kantar Worldpanel, a consumer research institution.

08/05/2013 - Fresh Plaza

According to the annual report Worldpanel Distribution 2013, conducted by consulting firm Kantar Worldpanel, 21% of what is spent in Spain on food, drugs, pet food and baby products goes to Mercadona, a 1.3% market share increase compared to 2011.

06/05/2013 - ABS-CBN News

Colgate may be the most popular consumer goods brand in Asia and the world, but in the Philippines, another brand reigns supreme. Hint: It's a coffee brand.
According to Kantar Worldpanel's Brand Footprint Ranking, Colgate was ranked the most chosen fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brand in Asia and the world.

06/05/2013 - The Bolton news

BOLTON bakery Warburton’s has been named as the nation’s best loved shopping basket brand.
It leads the rankings as the UK’s most chosen brand, beating other giants such as Coca-Cola, Heinz and Walkers, according to analysts Kantar Worldpanel.

02/05/2013 - Warc

Coca-Cola, Colgate and Nescafé are the world's "most chosen" FMCG brands, with emerging markets playing a crucial role in enhancing their reach, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
The firm's "Brand Footprint" rankings listed the "most chosen" FMCG brands across 32 countries, and are based on a new metric, Consumer Reach Points, which measure a brand's strength based on how many shoppers are buying it, and how often.

02/05/2013 - Retail Times

Coca-Cola is the world’s most popular brand, chosen 5.3bn times a year, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s Brand Footprint ranking.
The soft drinks manufacturer reaches its number one spot by combining a high penetration of 44% with the highest global frequency of purchase (15 times per year on average).

30/04/2013 - Mobile News

Android continued to dominate the number one OS spot in the UK with 58.4 per cent of the market in Q1, driven by strong Samsung smartphone sales.
This is according to the latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which shows the operating system’s share of the market has grown 9.1 per cent in the past year.

30/04/2013 - Irish Examiner

Aldi and Lidl, with a 13.1% share of the grocery market, now outsell all smaller grocery shops combined whose market share has fallen to 11.3%, according to the latest supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel.

22/04/2013 - MCV

Supermarkets and Amazon have boosted their entertainment market share at the expense of GAME and HMV.
Kantar Worldpanel’s Entertainment Retailer Barometer report states that Amazon made the biggest market share gains for the 12 weeks ending March 17th 2013.

17/04/2013 - The Portugal News

On average, the Portuguese spent €1,835 a head in hypermarkets and supermarkets last year, with food's share of that total rising sharply.
According to Kantar Worldpanel, the consultancy that carried out the study, various of its findings are just the latest evidence that Portuguese consumers are tending to cook at home more as disposable incomes are squeezed.

08/04/2013 - Saudi Gazette

The Saudi beverage market is growing at an annual rate of over eight percent, according to Ranjitha Subash, Consumer Insights Director at Kantar Worldpanel.
Insights revealed that the food and beverage (F&B) sector is driving sector growth, with each Saudi household buying an average of eleven various beverage categories.

08/04/2013 - The Independent

Laurie Krohn, a consumer analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, said: "Music downloads now account for 40 per cent of total sales by value, up from 33 per cent last year. iTunes is the dominant force in digital music, and HMV will need to challenge this supremacy if it wants to succeed in the long term."

02/04/2013 - Independent.ie

The latest stats from Kantar Worldpanel show that Superquinn increased its sales by 1.9pc during the first three months of this year, compared to the wider grocery market which increased sales by 1.5pc year on year.

02/04/2013 - Metro

Samsung is still the top smartphone brand in Britain with over a third of the market, leaving Apple trailing in second place, says the latest data.
Kantar Worldpanel Comtech said Samsung had 36.2 per cent of the market in the UK compared to Apple’s 29 per cent of sales in the three months to February.

02/04/2013 - CNBC

Microsoft snagged the third highest market share in U.S. smartphone market. Yun Kim, Janney Montgomery Scott analyst, discusses how he is playing the stock.

01/04/2013 - China Daily

According to Kantar Worldpanel, a London-based consumer research company, two leading retail groups, the Sun Art Retail Group and Wal-Mart, both experienced declining market share in the last quarter of 2012, with Wal-Mart seeing the most significant drop.

01/04/2013 - Malaya Business Insight

Filipino households spent almost P5 billion more on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)during the observed election years of 2007 and 2010 compared to non-election years 2005-06, 2008-09 and 2011, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s “Filipino Households’ Behavior and 2013 Outlook” study.

27/03/2013 - The Guardian

Tesco, the supermarket most heavily hit by the revelations of horsemeat scandal, is still suffering from the furore as figures showed an ongoing depression in market share.
The UK's largest supermarket saw its share in the 12 weeks to 17 March stay below 30% – a level it last fell below eight years ago – according to data by Kantar Worldpanel.

25/03/2013 - Mail One

Sales of kale have leapt to 3,048 tonnes and increased in value by 38.4 per cent to £12.6 million in the year to February, data from analysts Kantar Worldpanel shows.

12/03/2013 - Premium Beauty News

In a difficult economic context, characterized by a regular decline of sales in volume and, in 2012, in value, new operators are trying to find their niche on the French market of luxury perfumes.
Selective retail in France is also suffering of a loss of buyers. According to Kantar Worldpanel, 3 million buyers have left it since 2010.

04/03/2013 - The Grocer

Sainsbury's was the only one of the big four to increase its market share in the past 12 weeks, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel.
The retailer increased its share from 16.9% to 17% in the 12 weeks to 17 February, with market-beating sales growth of 4.6%.

28/02/2013 - BBC News

Beef and veal prices have risen by more than 45% across Europe over the past five years, according to the European Commission, while the global auction price for beef has topped $5,300 (£3,500) a tonne. Horsemeat, by contrast, currently costs about $1,200 a tonne.

27/02/2013 - The Guardian

Sales of frozen beefburgers have decreased by 43% since the start of the horsemeat scandal as shoppers steer clear of products they fear might not be quite what they claim on the label.
Data from market research firm Kantar Worldpanel shows sales of frozen ready meals have also been hit, down 13% since the Food Safety Authority of Ireland said in mid-January that it had found horsemeat in beefburgers destined for sale.

26/02/2013 - Mobile News

Microsoft OS share grows 240 per cent to 6.2 per cent, with 700,000 new customers adopting the platform in the past year.
Windows Phone has displaced BlackBerry in holding the third largest operating system share in GB, according to the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

25/02/2013 - TechCrunch

Kantar Worldpanel has picked the week of a major mobile show in Europe, Mobile World Congress, to shift some of the focus back to the U.S. Today the firm released numbers on smartphone sales for the 12 weeks to the end of January, which show that Android was the top smartphone platform, beating out previous leader Apple’s iOS, and that Verizon has ousted AT&T as the top smartphone operator.

22/02/2013 - Herald Scotland

WEST Lothian-based Paterson Arran hiked its share of the branded shortbread market in Great Britain further last year – accounting for more than £4 of every £10 spent by consumers in the category.
Paterson Arran, which employs about 130 people at its Livingston bakery and headquarters, and around 20 staff at Lamlash, on the Isle of Arran, highlighted research published by consumer sector specialist Kantar Worldpanel.

22/02/2013 - The Independent

Asda's clothing brand, George, had a "record" year for sales and profits, boasting it is the UK's fastest-growing fashion retailer online.Sales of George on the internet rocketed by more than 55 per cent over the 24 weeks to 23 January, according to Kantar Worldpanel.

06/02/2013 - Bloomberg

More than two thirds of Portuguese forecast the country’s economic crisis will last another three years, according to a study by market researcher Kantar Worldpanel.
The survey indicated 75.9 percent of Portuguese forecast their country’s economic situation will remain the same for another three years compared to 58.1 percent in a poll carried out in 2009, Kantar said in an e-mailed presentation today.

29/01/2013 - Retail Times

Tesco has matched grocery market growth for the first time since June 2011 and maintained its market share, according to the latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, published today for the 12 weeks ending 20 January 2013.
Tesco’s sales rose 3.3% in the latest period, delivering a 30.4% market share, unchanged on the comparable period in 2012.

23/01/2013 - PC World

Microsoft's Windows Phone is still lagging a long way behind Android and iOS in terms of market share, but new figures indicate that the mobile operating system has experienced strong European growth over the last year, particularly in Britain and Italy. The figures from research firm Kantar Worldpanel Comtech show that Windows Phone has almost tripled its market share in the U.K., rising from 2.2 percent to 5.9 percent in the last twelve months.

23/01/2013 - Forbes

Kantar’s Worldpanel ComTech survey released its latest smartphone market share data, which shows Apple’s smartphone market share at 51.2% with Android at 44.2% for the twelve week timeframe ending on December 23. Windows phones moved up to third place with 3.6% share while RIM slipped substantially from 7.5% to 1.6% share.

15/01/2013 - Retail Times

Festive grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, published today (15 January 2013) for the six weeks ending 6 January 2013, show the grocery market growing at 3.8% over Christmas and the New Year, driven by price inflation rather than volume growth.

08/01/2013 - Reuters

Market researcher Kantar Worldpanel said Britain's grocery market grew 3.2 percent in the 12 weeks to Dec. 23. It said Sainsbury's saw sales growth of 3.4 percent, edging up its market share by 0.1 percent to 17.1 percent.
Market leader Tesco, fighting back after a dismal Christmas in 2011 led to its first profit warning in 20 years, saw sales growth of 2.9 percent but its market share dipped slightly - by 0.1 percent to 30.5 percent.

02/01/2013 - The Australian Financial Review

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been known to use hyperbolic adjectives, but was he on the mark when he described 2012 as "the most epic in Microsoft history"?
It was the year, after all, in which the company launched Windows 8, a radical revamp of its flagship operating system.

21/12/2012 - Tech Crunch

According to 12-week sales numbers out from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech — the WPP division that tracks smartphone sales across several key markets on a monthly, rolling basis — Apple is at its highest-ever share of smartphone sales in the U.S., at over 53%.

21/12/2012 - The Bookseller

Nielsen is linking up with consumer insight company Kantar Worldpanel in an association that will enable it to provide information on buying habits for e-books as well as for print purchases.
Kantar Worldpanel gathers data on book buying from a continuous panel of 15,000 participants, with information about where the book was bought, format, price and reason for purchase.

20/12/2012 - Washington Post

Apple’s stock, which peaked at more than $700 per share in September, has lost nearly 25 percent of its value. But RIM, which reported strong earnings Thursday, has seen its stock more than double its abysmal September price of $6.30 per share. On Thursday, the stock closed at $14.12 and continued to climb in after-hours trading.

18/12/2012 - BBC News

The first snow has fallen and bookmakers have shortened their odds for a white Christmas. So far, so seasonal - but distinctly unusual weather conditions earlier in the year have raised the price of a traditional Christmas dinner.
n the run up to Christmas 2011, Britain spent £113.5m on eight million birds, according to retail analysts Kantar Worldpanel.

04/12/2012 - The Guardian

The march of the discounters continues with Aldi attracting 10% more shoppers in the past three months and benefitting from 17% growth in the value of each shopping basket.
The latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks to 25 November, show Britain's grocery market growing by 3.2%. This is below grocery inflation of 3.5% and suggests shoppers are becoming thrifty.

27/11/2012 - The Inquirer

Apple must be feeling especially smug today, as IOS has overtaken Android in the US.
That's according to research firm Kantar Worldpanel Comtech, whose third quarter 2012 numbers show that IOS has once again pushed past Android in the US. The statistics show that IOS now has a 48.1 percent share of US smartphone sales, compared to Android's 46.7 percent share.

22/11/2012 - Warc

Some 15 companies in the FMCG sector now reach over 100m households in China, a group including local players such as COFCO and Master Kong, as well as foreign firms like Nestlé and Coca-Cola.
Kantar Worldpanel, the insights provider, stated that goods made by Procter & Gamble, the FMCG giant, were bought by 156m urban Chinese households during the year to October 5, 2012, up from 151m over the previous 12 months.

20/11/2012 - The Guardian

Austerity Britain is experiencing a nutritional recession, with rising food prices and shrinking incomes driving up consumption of fatty foods, reducing the amount of fruit and vegetables we buy, and condeming people on the lowest incomes to an increasingly unhealthy diet.

13/11/2012 - Irish Independent

Data from research group Kantar Worldpanel shows Tesco remains the country's biggest grocery retailer, with a 28.3pc share. Aldi and Lidl now command over 12pc between them as consumers continue to spend more of their dwindling take-home pay at the German discounters.

07/11/2012 - British Baker

The latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel for the 12-week period to 28 October 2012, published today, revealed a 0.5% drop in market share for both Tesco and Morrisons year-on-year to 30.5% and 11.5% respectively.

05/11/2012 - Reuters

Market researcher Kantar Worldpanel said Sainsbury's sales rose 5.6 percent in the 12 weeks to Sept. 30, increasing its share of the UK grocery market to 16.5 percent from 16.2 percent a year ago, as the group benefited from advertising tied to the Paralympic Games which followed the Olympics.

30/10/2012 - Tech Crunch

Apple’s iPhone 5 only launched towards the end of last month but first week sales of Apple’s latest superphone slowed Android’s growth in Cupertino’s two biggest markets: the U.S. and U.K. during the 12 weeks ending September 30, 2012, according to figures put out today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market analysts.

30/10/2012 - Warc

China's FMCG brand owners are facing a slowdown in demand as the nation's consumers make cutbacks, Kantar Worldpanel figures have indicated.
A new report from the research firm suggests that value sales in the category grew by 10% year on year in the third quarter of 2012. During the previous quarter, this growth rate was 15%.

16/10/2012 - Irish Independent

The data from research group Kantar Worldpanel shows the grocery sector going through one of the most radical transformations in decades as hard-bitten consumers change their spending habits.
Discount retailer Aldi is the biggest winner from the trend, grabbing market share from rivals at an increasingly dramatic pace, according to the new figures.

11/10/2012 - Retail Times

Sainsbury’s has delivered strong growth of 5.6% lifting its share from 16.2% a year ago to 16.5%, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel data for the 12 weeks ending 30 September 2012.

05/10/2012 - The Grocer

The assumption has always been that women love chocolate more than men -sometimes in both senses of the phrase. But blokes are developing the sweeter tooth, reveals the latest confectionery consumption data.
Although much of the recent NPD and marketing has been aimed at women -including the roll-out of girly chocolate bar Crispello by Cadbury- men are becoming chocoholics, according to Kantar Worldpanel data.

01/10/2012 - Tech Crunch

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market research group, today released its latest 12-week smartphone sales figures across the key markets in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere, and the figures show that Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is definitely making some progress, and in at least one case, in Italy, overtaking RIM as the fourth-largest smartphone OS in terms of actual sales.

19/09/2012 - Daily Research News Online

Kantar’s telecoms purchasing and usage trends analysis division – Worldpanel ComTech – has launched a new mobile and tablet-focussed panel in Japan, to provide insight into the country’s mobile phone market.
Worldpanel ComTech measures actual consumer behaviour in the telecoms market, across 12 countries – the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the US, China, Japan, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

18/09/2012 - Irish Independent

Shoppers appear to have gone back to the old-fashioned strategy of buying "less and more often" as they tighten their purse strings ahead of another brutal Budget.
New figures from research group Kantar Worldpanel show the average grocery shopping trip is costing the same now as it did in 2005, with consumers spending an average of just €21.30 every time they go to the supermarket.

12/09/2012 - Retail Gazette

Figures released today on supermarket share reveal that the two-nation divide continues as upmarket grocer Waitrose and discount supermarket Aldi both posted all-time record market shares.
Grocery share figures from data analysts Kantar Worldpanel show that the grocery market grew above inflation at 3.3 per cent in the 12 weeks ending September 2nd 2012, above the Kantar inflation measure of 2.9 per cent.

12/09/2012 - Farmers Weekly

Retail beef sales remain buoyant, with consumer expenditure rising by 5% in the year to 5 August, according to analyst Kantar Worldpanel. However, higher prices have subdued volume sales.

04/09/2012 - Mobile Today

New research from Kantar WorldPanel ComTech showed that across Europe, Android increased its market share by 43.1% to 67.1%, compared to last year. Apple's iOS share decreased during the same period, across the 12 weeks to 5 August. Its share shrank 25.5% to 14.6%. While consumers are opting for bestselling Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy S III, Apple fans are awaiting the new iPhone, which will be announced later this month.

04/09/2012 - KamCity

Greek and Cypriot cheeses such as feta and halloumi have to become the UK’s fastest growing cheese variety, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel. The study found that sales of halloumit have surged up 35% in the last year, while feta has recorded sales of 15% in the UK market.

03/09/2012 - The Telegraph

Waitrose could double the proportion of goods it sells via the internet to at least 6pc within eight years, and ultimately take 20pc of sales online, managing director Mark Price has said.
According to figures from Kantar Worldpanel, the supermarket, which is part of the John Lewis Partnership, is the UK's fastest-growing grocery retailer thanks in part to a 60pc rise in online sales in the last three months.

03/09/2012 - Food Navigator - Asia

A new report from China-based consumer research firm Kantar Worldpanel has found that FMCG sales growth has slowed across the country's four 'key cities'. Growth in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu dipped to 11% in the second quarter ending 15 June (Q2) from 18% in 2011 for the same period.

22/08/2012 - Fresh Plaza

New research from Kantar Worldpanel shows the biggest decline in the Irish grocery market since 2010, with strong growth for hard discounters. The latest figures from Kantar show the value of the Irish grocery market has fallen by 0.9 per cent over the past year.
Aldi and Lidl accounted for a combined market share of 12.4 per cent in the 12-week period ending 5 August 2012, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel. This is up from 12.2 per cent in the last 12-week period, and from 11 per cent for the same period last year.

14/08/2012 - The Independent

There were signs that Tesco's recovery plan was beginning to gain traction today after industry figures indicated an improving performance.
Britain's biggest grocer saw its market share slip slightly to 30.9% in the 12 weeks to August 5, researcher Kantar Worldpanel said, but its sales growth of 3.4% was significantly higher than the 0.7% a month ago, suggesting it is now starting to close the gap on its rivals.

07/08/2012 - Mobile Today

The latest sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveal that the manufacturer has been buoyed by the release of the Samsung S III. The company's success has also benefited Google's Android platform, with its share of the big five countries growing from 42.7% in July 2011 to 65.7% in July 2012. Android has also retained its number one position in the UK with a 59.5% share, up from 47% a year ago.

06/08/2012 - The Grocer

Men are tucking into more bags of crisps and bars of chocolate - despite efforts by their other halves to curb snacking.
Mums have been looking to improve their family’s diets by cutting back on the snacks they stockpile in the kitchen cupboard - prompting a 7% drop in the amount of crisps being eaten at home by 35 to 44-year-old men [Kantar Worldpanel 12 m/e February 2012].

03/08/2012 - The Guardian

Budget supermarket chain Aldi is to create up to 3,000 new jobs in Britain in the coming year as its growth continues to outpace that of pricier rivals. German chains Aldi and Lidl grew 26.1% and 11.5% respectively in the 12 weeks to 8 July, achieving record shares of 2.9% during tough trading conditions for the grocery market, which as a whole saw growth fall to 2.1% over the period, according to research firm Kantar Worldpanel.

27/07/2012 - Marketing Magazine Australia

Over the past year, Marketing with the help of Kantar WorldPanel’s ComTech data has been tracking smartphone penetration in Australia and the battle between iPhone and Android for operating system supremacy in Australia. Data from the ongoing study of 10,000 Australian mobile phone owners shows that, as of the beginning of July, Android commanded 38% of smartphone market share compared to iOS’ 37%.

24/07/2012 - Warc

A slowdown in China's economic growth has been reflected by the sales of fast-moving consumer goods in the country, new figures show.
According to Kantar Worldpanel, the research firm, value sales in the FMCG category rose by 15% over the three months to June 15th, lagging behind the annual rate of 16%.

23/07/2012 - The Grocer

Tesco and Asda have both lost share in the entertainment market, as Amazon reinforces its dominance.
Figures for the second quarter of 2012 showed Tesco’s market share has dropped 1.7 percentage points year-on-year to 10.7%, while Asda slipped 0.2 points to 8.3% [Kantar Worldpanel].

19/07/2012 - The Independent

Consumers are cutting back on buying premium own-label groceries for the first time in four years, as they flock to the discounters Aldi and Lidl in droves.
Kantar Worldpanel said that sales of premium own-label products are now falling by 6 per cent, while the grocers' value ranges are growing at 13 per cent.

17/07/2012 - Retail Week

The Co-operative has leaked market share over the last year and Murrells will be keen to arrest the decline. Kantar Worldpanel data shows its share stands at 6.5% from 6.9% last year in the 12 weeks to June 12 in a fiercely competitive market. The data revealed till roll growth fell 2.8% over the period.

17/07/2012 - Reuters

Growth in Britain's grocery market slowed over the past month as cash-strapped consumers responded to the economic downturn, shifting spend to discounters Aldi and Lidl, industry data showed on Tuesday.
Market researcher Kantar Worldpanel said growth in the grocery market fell to 2.1 percent in the 12 weeks to July 8.

17/07/2012 - The Grocer

Aldi and Lidl continued to make gains in the past three months, new figures from Kantar Worldpanel reveal.
The discounter duo each claimed a record 2.9% share of the UK grocery market in the 12 weeks to 8 July – having grown sales by 26% and 11.5% respectively, compared to the equivalent period last year.
The market as a whole grew by 2.1% over the period, just half of the 4.2% growth seen this time last year. Inflation is now at 3.8%, according to Kantar.

12/07/2012 - The Telegraph

The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows that for the first time Google Android has taken at least half of smartphone sales across Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, US and Australia. Its share is based on new smartphone users increasingly opting for Android, whose range extends to top models such as the Samsung Galaxy S3, which rivals the iPhone, to inexpensive models that are now cheaper than some feature phones.

12/07/2012 - Market Watch

Carrefour SA's market share in France dropped in the first half of the year, according to figures from the consumer research organization Kantar Worldpanel, French weekly La Tribune reports on its website Wednesday. According to Kantar Worldpanel, Carrefour's French market share dropped by 1.4 percentage points to 20.9% in the first six months of 2012 compared with a year earlier.

11/07/2012 - Inquirer

A recent survey showed that despite the flood of cheap products in the market, Filipinos were willing to pay more for brands that they believed to be reliable, durable and of better quality. This was true not just for people with more money to spare, but also for those in lower-income groups.
Results of the Kantar Worldpanel Study suggested Filipino consumers were actually more discerning. They were willing to pay higher prices for branded products they believed offered value for money.

11/07/2012 - Mobile Today

New research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech revealed that Android has at least a 50% share in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the US and Australia. For the 12 weeks ending 10 June, Android’s share in the UK increased by 17.5% to 57.2%. Kantar said this growth was driven by smartphone penetration in the prepay market thanks to devices like Samsung’s Galaxy Ace and Galaxy Y

04/07/2012 - MCV

Laurie Krohn, consumer retail analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, outlines pressures on the boxed games industry and looks at what the future might hold.
It’s fair to say that things are pretty tough in the world of boxed games – the value of the market has declined by 12.1 per cent in the past year (year ending April 15th) with 1.7m buyers leaving the category – the equivalent of one in ten shoppers.

01/07/2012 - Business World

Among 3,000 households surveyed nationwide, 84% said they buy well-known and trusted brands while 62% equate high price with high quality, Kantar Worldpanel said in a statement, citing its recent study “Philippine Households’ Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Spending.”
“Based on the results of the study, it is clear that Filipino consumers choose products that offer the best value for their hard-earned money,” Luz Barra, Kantar Worldpanel commercial director said in the statement.

30/06/2012 - Manila Bulletin

More and more Filipinos are purchasing goods in modern trade channels such as supermarkets and hypermarkets throughout the country but sari-sari stores still rule, a consumer survey by Kantar Worldpanel found.
A study by Kantar Worldpanel looked at the venues where Filipino households make their fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) purchases.

28/06/2012 - Asia Media Journal

Bain & Company, a global business consulting firm, and Kantar Worldpanel, a global leader in consumer panel insights, released the 2012 China FMCG Shopper report in Beijing. In most of 26 of the top consumer goods categories sold in China across packaged foods, beverages, personal care and homecare, covering more than 80 percent of the country’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market, shoppers who purchase more frequently in a category tend to buy more brands rather than more of the same brands.

28/06/2012 - The Wall Street Journal

Chinese consumers are brand-obsessed when they do their shopping, though not in the way some might expect.
According to a new study by Bain & Company and Kantar Worldpanel, Chinese consumers are adventurous shoppers who are constantly trying out new brands and are rarely loyal to one. The findings are likely to disappoint the marketing departments at major consumer product companies, the researchers say.

27/06/2012 - Mobile Today

Digital videos and games are becoming increasingly popular among consumers, who are using smartphones and tablets so they can watch and play while on the go. Fiona Keenan, consumer insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, explained: 'Over the past year, we have seen a phenomenal rise in the popularity of tablets and smartphones. More than one in seven people have told us they now have a tablet in their household and over 52% of the population own a smartphone".

26/06/2012 - Irish Independent

The number of Irish households grocery shopping in Northern Ireland has halved compared to 2009, according to new figures from Kantar Worldpanel.
The data shows that 8pc of households here bought groceries across the Border in the 12 weeks to June 10.

25/06/2012 - The Grocer

A record eight million people in the UK paid to download a movie or video game in the past year, new data from Kantar Worldpanel has revealed. “Music downloads now account for 35% of total music sales value. We are now starting to see a similar situation in the game and video markets”, said Kantar consumer insight director Fiona Keenan.

19/06/2012 - The Guardian

Supermarkets and grocery stores were the big winners from the diamond jubilee, taking an extra £213m in the week leading up to the celebrations. Sales were up 11.3% compared with the same week a year ago and retailers are hoping for a similar boost when the Olympics start next month, according to market researcher Kantar Worldpanel.

11/06/2012 - Bloomberg

Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA (JMT)’s Pingo Doce supermarkets increased their share of Portugal’s household grocery spending after cutting prices by 50 percent during a one-day sale last month, according to a study by market researcher Kantar Worldpanel.

08/05/2012 - The Telegraph

The rapid increase in male demand for tanning, waxing and facial treatments is expected to help create 11,000 jobs in the £6.2bn beauty industry over the next 12 months, research by Kantar Worldpanel has found.

04/05/2012 - The Grocer

The amount Brits spent on fresh cut flowers around Mother’s Day on 18 March fell 1.9% to £110.4m [Kantar Worldpanel GiftTrak 4w/e 27 March 2011 v 19 April 2011].

04/05/2012 - MCV

Consumer research firm Kantar Worldpanel has said that HMV and Asda are “best-placed” to gain from this year’s spate of GAME and Gamestation closures.

03/05/2012 - MCV

The female gamer is in decline, research has found.

03/05/2012 - Meat Trade News Daily

Some of the UK’s leading experts from the beef, lamb, pig and dairy sectors will be discussing the main issues.

16/04/2012 - Advertising Age

Young Men Spending More on Grooming, Start With Pricey Brands.

23/02/2012 - The Guardian

With its iPhone, Apple may be the most-used brand, but Android now has more than a third of installed base of consumers.

17/02/2012 - The Portugal News

The ‘take-away’ was the only category of highly consumed goods that grew significantly between 2010 and 2011, with people in Portugal opting more and more to eat at home in the most convenient way possible.

31/01/2012 - Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Tesco Plc’s share of the U.K. grocery market fell below 30 percent for the first time since 2005 this month as Britain’s biggest grocer struggled to fend off competitors’ increased promotions and fresh food offers.