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IRI company history timeline

1982

By 1982, IRI's net income reached $2 million on revenue of $12 million, 60 percent of which came from its ten largest clients, a list including General Foods, Campbell Soup, Nabisco, and R.J. Reynolds.

1983

Sales for 1983 jumped to $21 million.

1987

Long-time Nielsen clients were beginning to defect in growing numbers after InfoScan, the first nation-wide supermarket tracking service based on UPC scanning, was introduced in 1987.

1989

Although IRI's revenue reached $136 million in 1989, the company still suffered from growing pains, recording a net loss of $2.9 million.

1993

George Garrick, president of IRI's European Information Services, left the company in July 1993 to become president of Nielsen's United States market research division.

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