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Article: Ann Arbor, Mich., Firm Consults on New Product Trends.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- May 9, 2004
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By Jon Chavez, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 9--ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- For browsing supermarket aisles, you'll never find anyone more eagle-eyed than Marilyn Raymond, even though she readily admits, "I don't even cook."
A marketing specialist, Ms. Raymond is managing director of NewProductWorks, a consumer-products consulting unit owned by Arbor Strategy Group, a management advisory firm.
But she also is custodian of the "collection" -- an extraordinary assortment of every new consumer food or health and beauty aid product introduced in North America since the early 1970s.
Housed in a former Ferrari ...