NetFlix has the largest market share for streaming movies at 61% (NPD, March 2011).
In fact, Europe accounted for 57% of the demand in 2012, said NPD Solarbuzz.
To restore that balance, demand would have needed to reach around 45 gigawatts, NPD Solarbuzz said.
It is a controversial idea because the last effort to ban the NPD, back in 2003, failed.
Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD Group, said the future for Windows-based machines is looking increasingly bleak.
"There has been increased demand for specialty coffee, " says NPD Group food and beverage analyst Harry Balzer.
The market research firm NPD DisplaySearch asserts that 4K LCD TVs will outsell OLED TVs through 2015.
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It also incorporates consumer spend estimation provided by NPD retail and publisher partners, and calibration with third-party sources.
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According to NPD, a global information company that studies the restaurant industry, overall sales were flat in 2012.
The NPD study showed chains opened 1, 888 restaurants in the same time period that indies added under 1, 000.
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An estimated 380 million people will use video chat services by 2015, according to NPD Group, a market-research firm.
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Apple still trails Android in the U.S. smart phone market, according to NPD.
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Apple accounted for 28% of all music purchased by U.S. consumers in the first quarter, according to NPD Group.
"It's a very different environment now, " said Stephen Baker, the chief electronics analyst for market researcher NPD Group Inc.
And industry research firm NPD DisplaySearch believes 2013 will see no growth.
"This November marks the best November on record for sales of new physical content, " said NPD analyst Anita Frazier.
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Tom Ford, Vera Wang, and Thierry Mugler have also proved extremely successful on this front, according to NPD.
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Samsung has 70% market share in the 3-D TV market, according to NPD.
Apple's phones are the second-best-selling consumer smartphones in the U.S., according to the NPD Group, an online market-research firm.
In 2006, the National Probation Directorate (NPD), advised the Home Office that it was urgent the project should cease.
The number of people in the U.S. who play video games is shrinking, new data from NPD Group shows.
Additional NPD research showed that only 9 percent of diners are aiming to eat healthy when they eat out.
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Police confiscated about 70, 000 copies of the pamphlets during a search of the NPD's headquarters after the authorities were alerted.
Overall, according to new data from NPD Group, U.S. video game sales at retail fell 4% from a year ago.
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According to the consumer-focused researchers at NPD, worldwide tablet sales will increase more than fivefold over the next five years.
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Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group, .
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Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis at NPD Techworld, a division of market research and analysis provider The NPD Group.
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Gamers spent 42% less on video games in April compared to the same period last year, said market research firm NPD.
According to research from the NPD Group, soundbar system sales have grown 71 percent year-to-date from November 2010 to November 2011.
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Ross Rubin is executive director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group.
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