Press Releases

Consumer Climate: Light at the end of the tunnel?

Consumer sentiment is improving at the end of the year: Income expectations and willingness to buy show noticeable increases.

Consumer Climate: Downward trend stopped for now

Nuremberg, Germany, November 28, 2023 – Consumer sentiment in Germany remains overall stable in November, with no significant changes

Consumer sentiment recovery is still a long way off

Consumer sentiment in Germany shows a mixed picture in October and therefore no clear trend.

The Invisible Rift in Boardrooms: How Latent Generational Conflicts Hinder Sustainable Change

Young talent is pushing for fundamental change toward sustainability; older leaders want to change existing systems gently.

NielsenIQ and GfK to Merge, Creating a Leading Global Provider of Information and Analytics in Consumer and Retail Measurement

The merger brings together two complementary global leaders serving retailers and brands to provide extensive retail and consumer...

Fake Facts and New Technologies: Healthy Skepticism Instead of Blind Trust

Fake Facts & New Technologies: Healthy Skepticism Instead of Blind Trust. A Call for Action from the Leaders of Tomorrow

Germans almost Happy

Nuremberg, June 8, 2020: The planned design of the German Corona App is already very close to the wishes of citizens, but the critical mass...

What does Freedom in a Digital World mean for the Decision-Makers of Tomorrow?

Nuremberg/St. Gallen, 13 May 2020 – In the future, decisions will increasingly be made in a situation of conflict between one's own will ...

Three new members on the Executive Board of the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions

Nuremberg, 4 July 2019: The General Assembly of the Nürnberg Institut für Marktentscheidungen e.V. (Nuremberg Institute for Market...

Market Decisions - The Core Value and Objective of Sound Market Research

Nuremberg, April 01, 2019 - On December 10, 2018, the extraordinary general assembly of the GfK Verein decided with 84.05 percent of the...

General Assembly: A New Name for the GfK Verein

Nuremberg , December 18, 2018 – On Monday, December 10, 2018, the extraordinary meeting of the General Assembly of the GfK Verein took place...

Dr. Andreas Neus is appointed new Managing Director of the GfK Verein

Nuremberg, October 15, 2018 – Dr. Andreas Neus (47) took over the management of the GfK Verein on October 1, 2018. He succeeds Prof. Dr....

Immigration Remains the Main Concern for Germans – With a Continuing Downward Trend

Nuremberg, Germany, September 21, 2018 – Many of the topics that dominated the general election in fall 2017 are once again on the list of...

Artificial Intelligence in Management

Nuremberg / St. Gallen, April 27, 2018 - Young top talents are optimistic about their careers. They assume that new technologies will bring...

Immigration Loses Relevancy for Germans

Nuremberg, August 25, 2017 – “Immigration and Integration” remains the dominant topic on the list of concerns for Germans in 2017. Even so,...

GfK Verein enters shareholder agreement with KKR

GfK Verein focus on long-term profitable growth of GfK SE GfK Verein to remain majority shareholder of GfK SE intending to enter equal...

GfK Rules Out Sales of Shares

Nuremberg, August 26, 2016 – The GfK Verein does not confirm media reports stating that there is a possibility that the GfK Verein will sell...

Concerns about Immigration Reach Record Level

Nuremberg, Germany, July 26, 2016 – The issue of immigration is of greater concern to Germans than anything else. Roughly four out of every...

Leaders of Tomorrow: Experience Does Not Prevent Decision Failures

Nuremberg/St. Gallen, May 12, 2016 – When it comes to good decision-making, experience from the pre-digital era is much less valuable in the...

Germans Trust the Helping Professions

Nuremberg, Germany, March 3, 2016 – Germans trust firefighters and paramedics most, politicians least. Despite the recent Dieselgate...

New GfK Chair in Information & Supply Chain Management at the University of Applied Management

Erding/Nuremberg, October 13, 2015: Yesterday, Prof. Dr Rudolf Aunkofer was appointed to the newly established GfK Chair of Information &...

Germans are concerned about migration

Nuremberg, 17 July 2015 – A change occurred at the top of the ranking of concerns in Germany this year. For the first time in 22 years,...

The next generation of leaders is aware of its strengths and demands respect

There are many myths about the generation of “digital natives” that apparently cannot live without the internet. But do these myths hold...

Euro and grand coalition in Germans’ good graces

Nuremberg, March 24, 2015 – Confidence in the euro is growing among Germans. This is a finding of the “Global Trust Report” 2015 conducted...