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ACQUISITION
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Business Combination, Asset Acquisition, Transaction between Entities under Common Control, and Joint Venture Formation [Abstract]  
ACQUISITION
2. ACQUISITION
On April 21, 2025, the Company completed the acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Analytical Flavor Systems, Inc. (dba Gastrograph AI) (“Gastrograph”), a market-leading discovery and inquiry platform for sensory insights, for cash consideration of $12.5 million (the “Gastrograph Acquisition”), subject to certain working capital adjustments. The Company accounted for the transaction as an asset acquisition as substantially all of the fair value of the assets acquired was concentrated in Gastrograph’s developed technology, which includes applications, models and the underlying database. The Company used the cost accumulation model, whereby the majority of the total acquisition cost, inclusive of direct transaction costs, was allocated to the acquired asset developed technology, which is estimated to have a useful life of three years. The Company believes the Gastrograph Acquisition further strengthens NIQ’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) capabilities and competitive differentiation to provide consumer packaged goods companies with the The Full View.