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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…

Published 6th February 2017 • Tags market-visits

Happy New Year!

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

Published 8th January 2017 • Tags our-team

The Dining Club – IKEA

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

Published 10th November 2016 • Tags market-visits

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.

Published 19th October 2016 • Tags open-data

FOSS4G 2016 – Bonn

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

Published 30th August 2016 • Tags our-team

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.

Published 14th July 2016 • Tags market-visits

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.

Published 1st July 2016 • Tags our-team, awards

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.

Published 5th April 2016 • Tags open-data

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.

Published 14th October 2015 • Tags our-team

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.

Published 23rd September 2015 • Tags market-visits

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.

Published 15th September 2015 • Tags open-data

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.

Published 9th September 2015 • Tags 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.

Published 28th August 2015 • Tags market-visits

Retail Places – 2015 Update

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

Published 16th July 2015 • Tags geodata

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.

Published 9th June 2015 • Tags market-visits

Open Supermarkets Locations

Published 18th May 2015 • Tags open-data

UK Universities

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

Published 21st April 2015 • Tags geodata

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.

Published 24th January 2015 • Tags market-visits

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:

Published 14th January 2015 • Tags open-data

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?

Published 29th October 2014 • Tags market-visits

Open Supermarket Locations

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

Published 22nd October 2014 • Tags open-data

National Business Awards Double Finalists

Geolytix announced as double awards finalist

Published 25th July 2014 • Tags our-team, awards

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.

Published 23rd June 2014 • Tags open-data

The Latest Phenomenon: Pop-Up Shops

Flash retailing has become a popular concept. This is a new breed of pop-up shops, far from the tacky, messy seasonal shops that appear around a festive holiday.

Published 21st February 2014 • Tags market-visits

Food is the Focus and the new Warehouse style Morrisons store

Morrisons recently opened a refreshingly innovative store that encourages good old fashioned food shopping in a clear yet theatrical fashion.

Published 13th January 2014 • Tags market-visits

UK Open Census Data

First off, congratulations to Jeni Tennison OBE and Keith Dugmore MBE on their gongs for services to Open Data.

Published 2nd January 2014 • Tags census, open-data

A year in and I’m still being the Customer

The move from corporate life to helping build a start-up business is not insignificant – but what a year it’s been!

Published 1st November 2013 • Tags our-team

New Destination Format Tesco combines High Street feel with Supermarket experience

There is much to be said for Tesco's new approach to out of town shopping.

Published 13th August 2013 • Tags market-visits

A Big breakthrough for Open Data – detailed House Price Paid data

Yesterday the Land Registry made, in my view, the most significant Open Data announcement for four years.

Published 15th May 2013 • Tags open-data, geodata

When the Foundations Keep Shifting – Geolytix Town Boundaries

One of, maybe the, biggest headaches working with reference data is change. Houses get built, roads are widened, people die and babies are born.

Published 15th April 2013 • Tags geodata

The Languages of London

I’m working on a couple of projects where Culture/Ethnicity/Language are pretty high up the ‘important stuff we have to consider’ list.

Published 30th March 2013 • Tags open-data, census

Why Open Data leads to Higher Quality Data

We are often told Geolytix are foolish to ‘give away’ data we have created, especially when we know we could license that data for good money.

Published 20th February 2013 • Tags open-data

UK Census Pack – Open Data

For the last couple of weeks at Geolytix we’ve been eager little data bunnies processing the detailed English, Welsh and Northern Irish Census Data.

Published 14th February 2013 • Tags open-data, census