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Thursday
05Nov2009

PRESS RELEASE - Schober Group Partners with The Local Data Company

Schober Group partners with LDC, giving Schober’s customers access to LDC’s UK POI database; and LDC’s customers access to a full European POI product suite. 

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Monday
13Jul2009

Seven Out of 10 Woolworths Shops Remain Empty

Six months after the demise of Woolworths, The Local Data Company has undertaken unique research into what happened to over 800 prime town-centre stores.

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Thursday
02Jul2009

LDC Adds Several New Clients to its Prestigious Client List

The Local Data Company is pleased to announced the addition of several new clients to its prestigious client list, proving both that the local search market is alive and well, and that rich, quality data will always sell.

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Wednesday
03Jun2009

PRESS RELEASE - John Lewis Partners with The Local Data Company

The Local Data Company (LDC) is proud to announce John Lewis as its first development partner, with John Lewis subscribing to LDC’s new online product, Town Centre Intelligence (TCI).

TCI brings together LDC's 330,000 business records and 250,000 images, along with several third-party urban datasets, and makes them easily available and searchable through an online application accessible through any web browser.

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Thursday
07May2009

LDC Picked as One of Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Europe

The Local Data Company (LDC) is proud to announce its selection as a finalist at the Innovate!Europe Master Class in Zaragoza, Spain. It was the only UK company to reach this stage.

Now in its fourth year, Innovate!Europe is a six-month program to find and showcase Europe’s top startup, with workshops held across Europe.

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Friday
01May2009

Westfield to cut tenant charges as shops stay empty

Westfield, the London shopping centre that opened amid fanfare six months ago, has backed down in a dispute with tenants over service charges amid signs that it is suffering in the economic downturn.

Europe’s biggest urban shopping mall was drawn into a dispute with 23 retailers over the charges it levied for shared facilities at the 43-acre centre in West London.

Michael Gutman, the managing director of the £1.6 billion centre, conceded that the charge would be adjusted.

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Friday
24Apr2009

Software technology: retail is still largely bricks not clicks

Online shopping’s share of total retail sales soared almost 20% last year, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. Following the recent expansion of broadband, this may be no surprise, but it will create confusion among retailers and landlords trying to plan for the future.

The ONS estimates that 3.5% of sales last December were made online, yet two years ago shopping centre organisation BCSC claimed this level had already been reached. At around this time, distribution giant ProLogis muddied the waters further by stating in its own study that web sales had reached 11% in 2006, following a 370% increase in four years.

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Tuesday
14Apr2009

LDC is a finalist in Innovate!Europe’s search for Europe’s Top Startup

The Local Data Company has been nominated as as a finalist in Innovate!Europe’s search for Europe’s Top Startup. Qualification as finalist grants participation in the Innovate!Europe Master Class, to be held May 4-6, 2009 in Zaragoza, Spain.

During the two-and-a-half-day Master Class, finalists will learn the governance, marketing, fund-raising, partnering and business development skills critical to thriving in Silicon Valley and the global technology market.

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Monday
09Mar2009

Town Centre Intelligence (beta) Launch

The Local Data Company (LDC) is proud to announce the launch of the UK's first 'High Street Health Check' through its new online product, Town Centre Intelligence (TCI).

Significant to all of us, the economic health of the high street is especially vital to retailers, commercial property professionals, investors, owners, developers, planners and professional advisers.

Local authorities and regeneration bodies need to see clearly how their town or region is serviced by the retail and leisure sectors, how their high streets are changing, and to make reliable comparisons over time and between towns.

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Thursday
26Feb2009

New Online Product Pre-Launch Announcement

We are pleased to announce that next month (March 2009) The Local Data Company (LDC) will launch Town Centre Intelligence (Beta)

The town centre: it’s a complex organism where people ebb and flow, offices coexist with leisure outlets and retailers thrive or fail. If you’re investing in property, managing the fortunes of a retail centre or planning new developments in a British town centre, you need the best available information at the touch of a button.

Through Town Centre Intelligence (TCI) retailers can be searched and sorted from national scales down to individual streets, and data are delivered on vacancies, new and closed units, and the mix of retail classifications and between independents and multiples.

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