Retail partners

Solutions tailored to your needs

We develop commercial and non-commercial relationships with innovative, entrepreneurial and customer-focused companies and individuals, putting the end customer in touch with a whole bank of support and expertise.

Our intelligent and flexible data can underpin a wide range of tailor-made solutions and can be integrated with third party data to fulfil virtually every geographic intelligence need.

In essence, our partners add value to our data, and the quality of our data benefits our partners' solutions – all to the advantage of the end customer.

Improve Your Retail Location Insight
Past, present and future

Whatever the size of your business, Goad products and online services help you quickly identify the most profitable locations for your retail property development, investment and regeneration projects. Goad’s clear online maps, easy-to-use reports and comprehensive data sets cover over 2,300 shopping areas in the UK and Ireland and will enable you to:

• Improve your understanding of the current retail mix and composition of a retail location
• Provide you with the geographic and demographic extent of key consumer groups in a retail centres catchment
• Enhance your retail property marketing, investment and development strategies
• Forecast consumer expenditure and business turnover potential for the retail and leisure sectors

To find out how Goad can help you, visit www.goadplans.co.uk today.

eXMap from eMapSite is a primary retail product delivering real-time, full-coloured (or black and white), site-centred, large-scale digital plans, ideal for store location, delivery confirmation and much more.

Location affects everything and understanding the environment surrounding your business is essential to its success. ESRI^® (UK) Business Solutions has the experience to empower retailers to put business drivers into a geographic context.

• Site selection – combining OS MasterMap® and demographic data with ArcGIS and ProTERRITORY® to help you locate and evaluate planned new sites.
• Home deliveries – using ProTERRITORY with road and street datasets to calculate optimum routes for deliveries.
• Retail operations – using ProADDRESS and ProCENSUS to identify and locate where your customers actually are.
  

GeoBusiness Solutions has a combined experience of over 50 years in delivering GIS and location modelling projects, gained from both client and supplier perspectives. We utilise Ordnance Survey's data to enable retailers to combine geographical information held on customers and markets to improve decision making and ensure the most profitable outcomes to investment decisions.

Innogistic offers a range of desktop and web-based solutions that are designed for both experts and non-GIS professionals. Simplicity and cost effectiveness make it ideal for organisations that require data analysis and representation based on Ordnance Survey products. Based in the UK, we are accessible and adaptable to customer requirements.

Kingswood MapMechanics  provides fast, easy market penetration mapping, neighbourhood profile reporting, B2B scenarios, network planning and sharing information via the web, using the GeoConcept^® market analysis and Internet server systems with a wide range of Ordnance Survey data for UK and various products for Europe and the World.

MapInfo's solutions enable retailers to establish the best site locations, for them to understand store potential and to support marketing activity through increased customer knowledge. By combining demographic, lifestyle and segmentation data with Ordnance Survey's geographic data, we provide highly predictive, cutting-edge retail solutions.

ORC's Local Area Planning Information System (LAPIS) is an aid to the planning decision-making process, aiming to help with issues such as spatial planning and sequential testing raised by government Planning Policy Guidelines 6 and 13. Ordnance Survey’s Meridian^TM 2 road data is used by ORC for road networks, drive-time analysis and to help with impact analysis tests. LAPIS is designed in such a way that any local authority using Ordnance Survey data can easily integrate it with their data, resulting in a highly useable, accessible and effective tool.

Location optimisation/drive-time analysis/field worker tracker/GPS/store and demand modelling.

Thanks to extensive data collation, Overview Mapping has the ability to combine the latest business information and census data to create a unique customised digital tool for analysis. Our bespoke systems can work at top level, right down to data aggregated to Code-Point^® level (individual postcodes). When combined with Overview's rasterised street-level dataset (derived from OSCAR^® and Meridian^TM 2) we have created multi-functioning systems with the ability to identify ideal locations, query territory characteristics and match identified criteria through report generation.

Are you partner material?

We take pride in our partnership agreements with organisations representing a broad range of industry sectors. Together with our partners, whether individual entrepreneurs or multinational companies, we conceptualise and shape new products and create fresh revenue, markets and mutual opportunities. By becoming an Ordnance Survey Partner, you have the opportunity to grow your existing customer base and industry market as well as identify expansion opportunities, road-testing new business ideas while enjoying the rich benefits of being associated with a world-leading brand.

Our licensed partners work with us to create tailored solutions for their own businesses, which in turn add value to Ordnance Survey datasets such as the digital data OS MasterMap. By becoming a licensed partner, you work with us to create new markets and exploit mutual opportunities, accessing resources including marketing and technical help, a product insight programme, business development assistance and market intelligence to ensure you have the information, assistance and technology to boost your business and shape its future success.

Ordnance Survey's developer partners receive Web-based assistance in developing new business ideas and concepts, accessing our technical expertise and over £40,000 worth of mapping to transform raw vision into a marketable success. With access to our complete range of products as well as a series of data samples, you can use your developer status as a step towards becoming a full partner of Britain's national mapping agency, with a developed and defined business plan.

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