Team Thoughts

Fishnets, Honeycombs and Footballs – Better spatial models with hexagonal grids.

I love the unique mathematical properties of hexagonal tiling for spatial analysis and the inherent possibility to create beautiful bi-variate hex maps.

Market Visits

Bunnings first UK opening: An Aussie sausage sizzle in the snow

The shake up of the UK DIY sector recently got underway in St Albans with the opening of the first UK Bunnings.

Market Visits

Smiles and Giggles = Smiggle

We’re excited to post our first guest blog. Angela shares her take on one of the new retailers to hit the UK…

Our Team

Happy New Year!

So we have survived our first work week of 2017 – even if it was only 4 days.

Market Visits

The Dining Club – IKEA

“It doesn’t matter what you make, it’s the people that are the best ingredients.”

Open Data

Retail Points Update - October 2016

Since the last release of Retail Points the Netto and Sainsburys joint venture trial has ended resulting in closure of all 16 stores.

Our Team

FOSS4G 2016 – Bonn

Last week Geolytix touched down in Bonn for the 2016 FOSS4G.

Market Visits

Veggie Pret – Not just for Veggie’s

During the month of June Pret A Manger opened a pop-up vegetarian store – not a ‘new concept store’, they acknowledged.

Our Team

Location Planning and Data Analytics firm Geolytix win Queen’s Award for Enterprise

London-based Geolytix have today won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for creating innovative spatial algorithms that help retailers profitably attract and serve customers in a complex multi-channel world.

Open Data

Open Supermarkets now known as Retail Points

Today sees the release of the latest instalment of Open Supermarkets, we have now renamed this Retail Points.

Our Team

Samantha’s Week One – Back to Maps…

It’s been a buzz so far! I’ve been reminded of the power of data and a map together. Once combined questions that seemed unanswerable are suddenly simple.

Market Visits

Iceland Food Warehouse – Old Kent Road

It has been a hot topic in the industry for a while that the discounters are continuing to grow in popularity and share of market spend.

Open Data

Open Supermarkets – Now including Co-op Societies and Iceland

With every release of the open supermarkets Geolytix aim to improve and build on the previous version.

Market Visits

The air is better up here – Trampoline parks

Trampoline parks seem to be taking the UK by storm, they are opening all over. So Geolytix decided to have a team afternoon at Oxygen Free Jumping in Acton.

Market Visits

Good Evenings at Pret a Manger

In April of this year when Pret a Manger on The Strand introduced Good Evenings it went against the definition of their name.

GeoData

Retail Places – 2015 Update

If you need a product that provides an accurate retail background to support your decision making, this is it.

Market Visits

Shop in shop: The Google Shop

If you go down to Tottenham Court Road today you’re sure of a big surprise. Those familiar Google colours have come down to earth at the Currys PC World store.

Open Data

Open Supermarkets Locations

The latest updated open supermarkets is now available. A total of 349 stores have been added since the previous release. This is a mixture of new stores and capturing missing stores from the dataset. Highlights of the release: * 43 Tesco closures * 10 Morrison closures * 15 new Asda PFS * 349 stores

GeoData

UK Universities

With over 2.2 million students currently studying (and spending) in the UK it pays to know where they are.

Market Visits

Home of Smart Shopping

I’m going to be honest I never went to a Netto when they were previously around in the UK during my school years.

Open Data

Open Supermarket Locations – now includes the Co-operative Group

Version 4 of open supermarkets is now available with the following notable additions to its predecessor:

Market Visits

1000th Holland and Barrett store

At a time when high street stores are still at risk of closure following the turbulent economic climate of recent years, what is Holland & Barrett’s secret?

Open Data

Open Supermarket Locations

A drive or walk round any suburb or city nowadays seems to reveal at least one recently opened supermarket.

Our Team

National Business Awards Double Finalists

Geolytix announced as double awards finalist

Open Data

Workplace Data Release

The world is getting more mobile and connected. As analysts we need to go beyond knowing what types of people sleep where.