Market Visits Marugame Udon - Liverpool Street’s new lunch and evening spot Last week, Jas, Chris and Kate were fortunate enough to be invited to the soft opening of Marugame Udon, an authentic Japanese Udon restaurant, located a short walk from Liverpool St Station in London.
COVID-19 Conducting international business from your own home Luke has been based in Japan for 16 years, with nearly 4 of those at Geolytix. He supports our customers in the huge and fast-changing APAC region applying over 20 years of experience in network planning for a wide-range of leading retailers and brands.
GeoData From South Korea to the UK : Understanding 'how busy is this road?' We introduce you to one of our most ambitious data networks we have created - a modelled value count for every major road in the county of operation; we started with South Korea.
COVID-19 The Wimbledon Effect Wimbledon was back this year, after taking a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic - the first time the tournament hasn't been held since the Second World War. This year we could appreciate 'The Wimbeldon Effect' from another aspect - the boost in activity levels.
COVID-19 Tokyo Olympics - Summer in the City Luke, our business development director based in Japan discusses the impact COVID has had on the largest and most complex sporting event in the world.
Team Thoughts 3 months after joining Geolytix and I've finally met the team in-person With offices now allowed to officially open, Lizzie - our latest associate- discusses how working from home didn't hinder the spirit and qualities of Geolytix shining through the virtual workplace.
COVID-19 Has Yorkshire bounced back? The impact of the opening of outdoor seating on mobility levels in Yorkshire, compared to pre-COVID (2019) and lockdown (January - April 2021).
Team Thoughts Is Poland turning discount? With discounters taking more and more market share in Poland, we thought it would be interesting to look at the journey of grocery retail in Poland through the years and try and answer the question: 'Is Poland turning discount?'
Team Thoughts EUROS 2020(1): The GEOLYTIX Top Trumps With the EUROS in full swing (and our office sweepstake well under way) we thought we would honour our appreciation of geography and celebrate the stadiums hosting the EUROS - as well as the teams themselves!
Our Team Department for International Trade Export Champions 2021 Geolytix are proud to announce that we have recently been recognised as ‘Export Champions’ from the UK’s Department for International Trade.
Team Thoughts Life has changed, and so has retail... With the one year mark of the start of the pandemic (and multiple lockdowns) far behind us, our Project Director based in China, thought it would be the perfect opportunity to discuss how life - and retail - has changed.
Market Visits Will large malls be replaced by smaller, more convenient venues in Poland? As the world is slowly coming out of lockdown, we have been lucky enough to go on real site visits again; this week Jacek discusses his site visit in Warsaw!
COVID-19 Office Place Recovery Through the last 15 months, we have been using mobility data and applying it within 8,000 of our Retail Place boundaries to produce a weekly read on activity levels across the UK.
COVID-19 London has bounced back The impact of the opening of outdoor seating on mobility levels in London, compared to pre-COVID (2019) and lockdown (January-April 2021)
GeoData Modelled Traffic Volumes - a new product in our Road & Network data pack Our new product in the Road & Network data pack - Modelled Traffic Volumes, answers the question "how busy is this road?"
Team Thoughts What causes the online halo? As much as the precise cause of the classic halo is not entirely settled, the online halo is not totally understood by retail planners. Yet their importance when planning and forecasting, means we need to both understand and model them when planning multi-channel networks.
Open Data Featured Geolytix open Supermarket Retail Points - 20th Edition The 20th version of Geolytix’s open data set; Retail Points, has now been released.
Team Thoughts Mobility Data: Battle of Birmingham Birmingham and the Black Country was a highly requested area for us to look at next, and we couldn't resist. This time we've looked at: Aston Villa, Birmingham City, West Brom and Wolves and the results certainly are interesting...
Awards Geolytix wins a Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Geolytix has been awarded it's second Queen's Award for Enterprise. This year we are being recognised for our excellence in International Trade.
Our Team Working in an International Community Virtually working from home has been a change a lot of people have had to get used to in the past year. So imagine how tough it is to tackle that along with multiple time zones... Coco, based in China, discusses the perks (and challenges) of being part of a team spread across the globe
Our Team Geolytix - Going Global As Geolytix has been recognised with the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in April 2021, we look at our successes as a small but global company.
Market Visits Need a site visit fix? 2020 was a year without travel, and in an industry where site visits are part of the job, we were restricted to site visits from a laptop! As the world is slowly coming out of lockdown, our location planners based in Australia have been lucky enough to go on real site visits again!
Team Thoughts Mobility Data Proves It – North London is Ours Whilst looking through our Unacast mobile device ping data, we decided to use the data to look at which team had the highest active devices on home matchdays. And the results are in.....
COVID-19 Vaccination journey With vaccinations now leading the daily news coverage of COVID-19, I decided to focus on some positive data, a better alternative to reading the 'worsening news'. Using the XYZ framework which underpins MAPP, we have built an open app that visualises vaccination rates across the world.
Team Thoughts Visualising Sakura (cherry-blossom) With COVID muting hanami (flower-watching), the true meaning of Sakura - people gathering under the cherry blossoms drinking and picnicking - I decided to visualise the seasonal phenomenon (and plan my celebrations for next year).
