Article: The NPD Group Acquires Control of the Parkod Companies; Claude Charbit Appointed Chairman.

PARIS & PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- The NPD Group, an international provider of sales and marketing information headquartered in the U.S., with offices in Paris and other major cities, today announced that it had acquired control of the Parkod companies: Parkod France and Parkod Europe. With this acquisition, The NPD Group will now leverage Parkod's software, brands and databases with NPD's BeautyTrends(R) service. Claude Charbit, former executive vice president for European operations of Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), has been named chairman of Parkod.

"Our goal with the acquisition of Parkod is to enable retailers and manufacturers in the perfume industry to ...

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