| 1979 |
IRI is founded. |
| 1980 |
BehaviorScan is introduced. Annual revenues of $2.8 million. |
| 1981 |
IRI revenues total $5.8 million. |
| 1982 |
Incorporated in 1982. Annual revenues of $12.2 million. |
| 1983 |
Initial public offering nets $20.7 million. Sales reach $21.1 million. |
| 1984 |
IRI annual revenues exceed $61 million. |
| 1985 |
IRI acquires Management Decision Systems, Inc., creators of EXPRESS decision-support software. Revenues total $75 million. |
| 1987 |
InfoScan, the first national scanner-based supermarket tracking system, introduced. IRI acquires Apollo Space Management Software. |
| 1988 |
Frito-Lay, Procter & Gamble Soap sector, and ConAgra switch to InfoScan. |
| 1989 |
Pepsi-Cola, Nabisco Biscuit Co., Ocean Spray and Reynolds Metals switch to InfoScan. Revenues total $136 million. |
| 1990 |
Annual sales total $167 million. Temple, Barker and Sloane survey rates InfoScan #1 in client satisfaction. |
| 1991 |
Sales hit $208 million. InfoScan rated #1 in client satisfaction for third year in a row. |
| 1992 |
Procter & Gamble’s Food, Beverage, Health Care, Beauty Care and Paper sectors switch to InfoScan, which now claims an estimated 60% share of the U.S. market for supermarket data. First European office opens in U.K. |
| 1993 |
IRI expands into France, Holland, and Turkey. IRI annual sales reach $334 million. |
| 1994 |
IRI claims a solid majority of the U.S. Consumer Packaged Goods tracking industry. IRI rated #1 in client satisfaction for sixth year in a row. |
| 1995 |
Information Services’ international revenues reach $40 million. Anheuser-Busch switches to InfoScan Census. |
| 1996 |
IRI now processing data from over 20,000 individual stores. First-ever scanning service for produce introduced. |
| 1997 |
IRI reports a record $456 million in worldwide revenues. The multi- outlet in-home scanner panel expanded to 55,000 households. |
| 1998 |
International revenue exceeds $100 million and company-wide totals top $510 million. |
| 1999 |
IRI celebrates 20th anniversary. IRI’s multi-outlet in-home scanner service covers 55,000 households. |
| 2000 |
CPNNetwork and Knowledge Group introduced. IRI and Mosaic InfoForce join forces and partnerships created with U.S. Defense Commissary Agency and International Dairy Foods Association. InfoScan collecting data from 32,000 individual stores. |
| 2001 |
InfoScan Reviews Advantage syndicated service begins tracking retail sales information. CPGNetwork extends to European marketplace. An additional 10,000 households added to IRI’s multi-outlet in-home scanner panel service, ConsumerNetwork™. |
| 2002 |
IRI extends suite of services to pharmaceutical and healthcare markets, while Wyeth Consumer Healthcare makes switch to InfoScan. Attribute Drivers Analytic Service and InfoScan Convenience Store Account Level Services launched. Households in IRI’s ConsumerNetwork panel reaches 70,000. |
| 2003 |
Symphony Technology II-A, L.P. and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC, acquire IRI (company becomes privately-held and no longer traded on NASDAQ). IRI and Marketing Analytics team up to offer Drivers on Demand™. |
| 2004 |
IRI continues transformation with launching of Total Retail View™, BehaviorScan® Rx Split Cable Advertising Testing Service, IRI BehaviorScan DVR Service and industry’s first Content-on-Demand Factory, called MatketKnowledge™. IRI begins providing data to Welch’s, Dial Corporation, Acosta, Family Dollar and Pabst. |
| 2005 |
IRI continues $300M investment in MarketKnowledge, a unique solution providing daily, point-of-sale data on-demand and supporting IRI’s new Retail Performance Management™ and Out-of-Stock Monitoring™ solutions. New ShopperLink™ Consumer Insight Service launched. IRI adds 40,000 panelists to its consumer panel and testing services. |