The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization
founded in 1983 and funded and supported by the United States federal government. Most of its board is drawn from the Republican Party. IRI is a leading provider of big data, predictive analytics and forward-looking insights that help CPG, OTC healthcare, retailers and media companies to grow their businesses. IRI: HOME CARE DURING A PANDEMIC Multi-outlet and convenience (MULOC) retailers are defined as food, drug, mass, Walmart, club (excluding Costco), dollar, military, and convenience. Today the most commonly used national, cross-outlet markets are called xAOC (Nielsen) and MULO (IRI). The Nielsen term xAOC stands for eXtended All Outlet Combined and the IRI term MULO stands for MULti Outlet (and is typically pronounced “moo-loh”). You may also come across MULO C, which is IRI’s Multi Outlet plus Convenience Stores.