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U.K. Charts Firm Renews Contract

By Lars Brandle, London
Publication: Billboard Bulletin
Date: Monday, February 4 2002
The Official U.K. Charts Co. has extended for four years its data-collection contract with Millward Brown. The British market research firm began compiling information on audio and video products for the U.K. charts in 1994; it now collects electronic point-of-sale data from 5,000 retail outlets nationwide.

Terms of the deal--which runs through June 2006--were not disclosed.

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