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Assessing The Body Shop's Portfolio

Earlier this year The Body Shop, announced that it had gone into administration, with the likelihood of mass store closures. At the time of writing 7 ...
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Forecast vs. Reality: A Comparison of H1 2023 Projections and Outcomes

Vacancy Rates We anticipated the All Vacancy Rate to remain level at 14.0% to end 2023. This projection remained true, with the retail and leisure ...
Growth and Decline: Exploring the Surge of Barbers and the Decline of Pubs

The latest report by the Local Data Company and Green Street covers key developments across the entire GB retail and leisure market over 2023. Our ...
Housing Growth vs. Retail Vacancy Rates: Impact assessment of housing growth on vacancy

In this latest insight blog, we explore the relationship between housing growth and retail vacancy rates, utilising data from Edge Analytics. Based ...

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Press Release: Indie retailers more resilient than chains during COVID

Research released today by retail data consultancy the Local Data Company has revealed that the independent retail and leisure market was much more resilient than chains/multiples (brands with five or more stores) in H1 2020. The net change in the ...

3 min Read November 4, 2020

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PwC Press Release: Store closures: twice the rate of last year as net decline now at highest level in five years

Shop closures have hit record levels with over twice as many net store closures in the first half of 2020 in comparison to last year, according to research by the Local Data Company and PwC UK. The data shows that 11,120 chain operator outlets have ...

5 min Read October 19, 2020

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The impact of the work from home revolution on retail

Whether you love it or hate it, working from home (or WFH) has become a normal part of our professional lives. While we are starting to see the impact of the WFH revolution play out in our data, it is still very early days in quantifying the ...

5 min Read September 22, 2020

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Market update - Post lockdown retail and leisure reopening trends

Post-lockdown reopening update – full market The reopening rate at the end of August across the entire retail and leisure market was 71.3%, with variances across regions. Across hospitality and the beauty sectors, which were given the green light to ...

5 min Read September 9, 2020

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Covid-19 leaves coffee chains with a bitter taste

Insight Intern Gemma reviews how the coffee market has been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. Alongside most leisure categories, coffee brands have dramatically been impacted as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Plummeting sales have forced ...

4 min Read August 27, 2020

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Field research in a post-covid world

Katie Shaw is Senior Manager – Operations at the Local Data Company and has been in the business for 10 years. She oversees both the data quality control team and our team of field researchers who have been working tirelessly to keep data flowing ...

3 min Read August 14, 2020

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Pandemic begins to push up vacancy rates - BRC

This blog reports on Q2 2020. If you would like to see the most recent results for Q2 2022, download your copy here. In the second quarter of 2020, the overall GB vacancy rate increased to 12.4%, from 12.2% in Q1. This was the eight consecutive ...

3 min Read July 31, 2020

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PRESS RELEASE - Cautious retailers open just 52% of non-essential units eligible to be open as the market starts to recover from lockdown

First-look covid impact analysis completed by retail location data firm Local Data Company reveals that just over half of retail units eligible to be open were trading at the time of survey (May 23rd – 1st July).

2 min Read July 16, 2020

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Not so ‘Super Saturday’ for London, lagging 35% behind the rest of England for consumer activity on the weekend of hospitality’s grand reopening

Huq Industries and the Local Data Company have partnered to produce a Consumer Activity Index which uses high frequency mobility data to track activity across a range of bellwether brands. The new Index will provide time series data to track the ...

3 min Read July 9, 2020

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