Alexander EM Hess
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

Hello, and welcome to JPMorgan's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference. We're delighted to help us kick off TMC. We are joined by NIQ Global Intelligence. Although NIQ returned to public markets just last year, the company has been a leading tech innovator in consumer intelligence for over 100 years now.

NIQ has a vast data estate, which includes information from over 8,900 retailers in 88 countries, proprietary panels spanning 5.5 million-plus global shoppers, billions of consumer furnished e-receipts each year and critical product-level reference and descriptive data on over 246 million SKUs spanning 10 billion-plus product. Joining us on stage this morning are Jim Peck, NIQ's CEO and Chairman; and Mike Burwell, CFO of NIQ. Welcome, Jim and Mike.

James Peck
CEO & Chairman

Thank you.

Michael Burwell
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you.

Alexander EM Hess
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

[Operator Instructions] So let's start off with Jim.

Alexander EM Hess
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

Jim, you've got a lot of experience leading public companies, especially tech companies in the public markets. How are you thinking about your business and the world that you operate in today?

James Peck
CEO & Chairman

Yes. So I guess I have been doing this for a long time now. The fundamental thing I look for in any company, but especially in our kind of company is the information we have and the insights that we have is it -- do they matter? Do they matter to our clients? And