Market Visits Fast Food in Reading - A National Benchmark? Using Geolytix Retail Universe, Josh maps the UK’s fastest-changing QSR hotspots and where the next wave of growth may emerge.
Market Visits Danish Design and Hygge Homeware - variety store trends in the UK Josh reviews the grand opening of Søstrene Grene in Leeds along with other Danish brands taking the UK by storm. Who could be next?
Market Visits Oxford Street Reinvented Ben recently took to Oxford Street to ask the question "can it make sense to have 4 stores in the same vicinity, no matter how strong that Retail Place is?"
Market Visits Debenhams: Two years (& two months on) Over two years since the physical presence of Debenhams on our high streets ended, we review 126 units they left vacant. What’s become of them?
Market Visits The Importance of Site Visits for Location Planners While data driven insights are essential, site visits are indispensable for Location Planning. Alison interviewed our Location Planners to find out why we do them and 10 top tips that might help you next time.
Market Visits Featured A visit to Rossmann Rossmann - the place to buy your health & beauty, children's toys, cat food, chia seeds, a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc and some boxer shorts...
GeoData New towns are not built too often in the UK: Exploring Sherford The UK is known for its many historic towns but new towns are occasionally built. Sarah explores Sherford which welcomed its first residents in 2017.
Market Visits Gymshark's Regent Street Flagship is definitely worth the weight Imogen & Rachel recently visited the flagship Gymshark on London's Regent Street. They review their full experience; from a workout in the Sweat Room to a Joe & The Juice shake.
International Is the opening of the first Warsaw Uniqlo the icing on the cake in changing retail trends in Poland? Uniqlo opens its doors in Poland. Jacek visited the new store in Warsaw and shares his excitement about the potential shift in retail trends the country is experiencing.
Market Visits Inside the Corner Store - ALDI Melbourne While Rachel was in Australia working on a client project she took time out to explore Melbourne CBD and visited the new ALDI format Corner Store.
Market Visits Experiencing IKEA’s First City Centre Store in China This summer Coco had her first business trip back to Shanghai, one of the key things she ticked off right upon arrival was to visit the IKEA Jing’an City Store.
Market Visits Filling the gaps with {mydentist} How Europe’s biggest dental provider uses GEOLYTIX MAPP to manage their network of practices and target the most appropriate opportunities for growth.
Market Visits Where the FAANGs live. Blair visited Battersea Power Station over the weekend and shared some of his thoughts.
Market Visits The Sweeter Side of Life Rachel suggests a sweet spot to visit in St Albans, The Waffle House. We recently supported their team with customer and location analysis.
Team Thoughts LondonShuffle Six years ago we had a team social to a newly opened Shuffleboard club called LondonShuffle. We were delighted to support them recently with some location data and analysis.
Market Visits Providing The Original Factory Shop with the tools to make Informed Network Expansion Decisions The Original Factory Shop were looking for a forecast model and network blueprint to help guide their latest phase of new store expansion across the UK. GEOLYTIX rose to the challenge of forecasting sales for this bargain retailer with a somewhat unusual store portfolio.
Market Visits Welcome to Oxygen! Back at the beginning of April we were invited to embrace our inner children and bounce our way around Oxygen Freejumping at the O2.
Market Visits Pop Up Horsham –helping pandemic entrepreneurs reinvent the high street. Kate visited Pop Up Horsham, a council led scheme aimed at helping both reinvent the high street whilst supporting local small businesses created during Lockdown...
Market Visits My Reading Roadtrip with Geolytix In September, back when days were longer and the weather a little warmer, Jasper and a few of the team headed out to Reading for a site visit. He writes about the day below...
Market Visits Ready, set, 'GetGo' Last week Tesco opened its first checkout-free store, 'GetGo' in High Holborn. We couldn't pass up the opportunity for a site visit!
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.
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!
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!
Market Visits Chocolat: At home and abroad! Valentine's is a peak in the chocolate gift-giving season (Xmas-through-Easter) and even Hotel Chocolat’s “Chocolate Metropolis” in Leeds was beginning to run out!
Market Visits Aldi in Shanghai Aldi opened it's first store in China on the 7th June 2019 in Shanghai after it launched an e-commerce platform on Alibaba’s Tmall Global in April 2017.
