The National Restaurant Association and Nation’s Restaurant News announced Wednesday details of their multiyear partnership to provide the foodservice industry with new products to meet the growing demand for business news, research and insight.

The agreement — first made public by NRA chief executive Dawn Sweeney and NRN publisher Randall Friedman just before last month’s Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago — is the most comprehensive partnership between the two organizations. By leveraging their collective knowledge of restaurant people, products, and practices, the NRA and NRN plan to develop several new products and services for foodservice operators.

During the next six to 12 months, the partners will create and distribute NRA-branded content geared toward the organization’s members and prospective members, including a new “NRA Edition” of NRN’s flagship NRN a.m. e-newsletter and a monthly “NRA Insights” feature in the pages of Nation’s Restaurant News. The partnership also will offer discounted subscription rates for NRN to NRA members.

“I’m very pleased to announce this significant new partnership with Nation’s Restaurant News, one of the nation’s leading media sources,” Sweeney said. “Together, we’ll be able to reach hundreds of thousands of additional industry professionals to tell them the NRA story and the benefits of membership.”

Friedman said NRN “is proud to formalize our long-standing relationship with the NRA and strengthen our ability to serve its members.”

“This partnership will introduce NRN to new audiences and strengthen our long-standing position as the No. 1 source of business intelligence for the foodservice industry,” he said.

Founded in 1919 and based in Washington, D.C., the NRA is the largest business organization for the restaurant industry, which comprises 945,000 foodservice outlets and more than 13 million employees in the United States.