IRI's Larry Levin to Present at CEW/NPD Group's Beauty Industry 2013 Year-in-Review Event, "Hot off the Press"

IRI:

WHO:		Larry Levin, Executive Vice President and Practice Leader, Information Resources, Inc. (IRI)
		Marshal Cohen, Chief Industry Analyst, The NPD Group
		Karen Grant, Vice President, and Global Beauty Industry Analyst, The NPD Group
		Diane Nicholson, President, U.S. Softlines, The NPD Group
WHAT:		Larry Levin, along with three NPD executives, will present "2013: A Look at the State of the Mass Beauty Market," a talk that will review and analyze year-end results for the U.S. and global beauty industry as part of NPD's annual "Hot off the Press." This two-part invitation-only event is attended by manufacturers and retailers in the prestige and mass beauty industry seeking to better understand sales trends from 2013 and what those sales numbers mean for the industry's future.
WHY:		Beauty industry sales stabilized in 2013, although it's the first time in several years that sales have not beaten the CPG average. While typically enjoying 3 percent growth, this year's beauty industry eked out less than 1 percent growth. Has mass beauty petered out, is channel shifting contributing to the decline in dollars or is another trend underway?
WHEN:		Wednesday, January 29, 2014 and Thursday, February 6, 2014
WHERE:		New York, NY

About NPD:

The NPD Group provides market information and advisory services to help companies make better business decisions, including developing and offering the right products in the right places at the right prices for the right people in order to grow their businesses.

About CEW:

Cosmetic Executive Women, Inc. (CEW) is a nonprofit professional organization with over 5,000 executives, both women and men, in the beauty, cosmetics, fragrance and related industries. CEW is based in New York City, NY, and it has associated organizations in France and the United Kingdom.

About IRI:

IRI is a leader in delivering powerful market and shopper information, predictive analysis and the foresight that leads to action. We go beyond the data to ignite extraordinary growth for our clients in the CPG, retail and over-the-counter healthcare industries by pinpointing what matters and illuminating how it can impact their businesses across sales and marketing.

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