RetailVision Partners with The NPD Group to Honor the Best-Selling Retail/E-tail ProductsThe Leading Event for the Retail Channel Teams with a Leader in Market Research to Deliver an Industry Defining Awards ProgramPRNewswire-FirstCall RetailVision, produced by Everything Channel, today announced their partnership with The NPD Group, the leading global provider of consumer and retail market research information. The information and industry expertise provided by The NPD Group will be used to determine this year's winners at "The Best Selling Retail/E-tail Products Awards" ceremony being held at RetailVision Spring 2009, April 27-30, 2009, at the Boca Raton Resort in Boca Raton, FL. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090312/NY83084) "We are truly excited to have The NPD Group as a partner and for the prestige that winning an award supported by their leading research will provide the nominees and winners. The independent research done by The NPD Group is highly valued in the retail industry, and it adds an elevated level of significance for those who take home an award for best selling product of the year," said Robert C. DeMarzo, SVP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. Stephen Baker, Vice President of Industry Analysis for The NPD Group added, "In these tough economic times, every step taken at retail counts, and it's important for manufacturers to understand where they are successful, or not, and why." Baker will also be presenting an insight session at the event titled "Searching for Growth Opportunities in a Declining Market," showing his commitment to helping both retailers and vendors achieve success in these difficult times. Baker finished by saying, "NPD's data is the pulse of the consumer technology market, collecting point-of-sale information from retailers and manufacturers to help drive critical business decisions at the global, national and local market levels." With this kind of backing and research, winners of one of Best Selling Retail/E-tail Products Awards can feel confident that they are on track for continued success. The complete RetailVision Spring 2009 agenda is available at http://everythingchannelevents.com/rvs09_agenda. For information on how to attend the event, contact us at: http://everythingchannelevents.com/rvs09_contact%20us About The NPD Group, Inc. (http://www.npd.com/) The NPD Group is the leading provider of reliable and comprehensive consumer and retail information for a wide range of industries. Today, more than 1,700 manufacturers, retailers, and service companies rely on NPD to help them drive critical business decisions at the global, national, and local market levels. NPD helps our clients to identify new business opportunities and guide product development, marketing, sales, merchandising, and other functions. Information is available for the following industry sectors: automotive, beauty, commercial technology, consumer technology, entertainment, fashion, food and beverage, foodservice, home, office supplies, software, sports, toys, and wireless. For more information, contact us or visit http://www.npd.com/ and http://www.npdgroupblog.com/. About RetailVision (www.retailvision.com) RetailVision is the premier event for building alliances between top retailers, vendors, distributors and industry experts serving the retail channel across North America and Latin America. RetailVision's agenda is built to maximize the face-to-face interaction in both highly structured business settings and relaxed social networking events. RetailVision's format, tools and offerings give retailers, vendors and distributors more access and control to develop a comprehensive strategy to maximize their success throughout the retail channel. About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com) Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results. About United Business Media Limited (www.ubm.com) United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. 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