Our customers

We have been using LDC’s online insights platform since 2021 to stay on top of the latest developments across our areas. The depth and scope of data the platform offers, including vacancies, chain-independent business mix and a wide range of other metrics, allows us to monitor and evaluate market activity in real time. Local Data Online has proven highly versatile and easy to integrate with our own strategies and ways of working.

Marcos Gold
BID Director, Central District Alliance

 

Colliers uses the Local Data Online dashboard to assist with its understanding of the retail and F&B markets. It has been particularly useful in tracking store closures in relation to the recent spate of CVAs, administrations and store rationalisation programmes. The dashboard enables us to react quickly to client and media requests.

 

Mark Charlton
Head of Research and Forecasting, Colliers

Boots is delighted to work with the Local Data Company utilising its industry-leading insight to ensure our store portfolio is optimally placed to meet the needs of our customers.

Graeme Cormack

Senior Location Planning Analyst, Boots

Clipper worked with Local Data Company to map our Clicklink network, which delivers to retailers seven days a week, against the possible new partners with whom we might engage. Their team worked with speed, collaborated really well and transformed our understanding of what was possible. I would recommend them very highly.

Peter Louden
Business Solutions Director, Clipper Logistics plc

Working with Local Data Company and their online platform is providing us with a great live view of the ever-changing retail centre landscape. Being able to monitor the impacts of retailer closures/changes by individual locations using the dynamic LDO dashboard has become an essential part of our location assessments.

Rich Shave
Head of Location Planning, Clarks

PMA use LDC’s data for detailed city by city analysis. The database is robust and reliable, allowing us to easily and consistently compare between towns and cities across the UK and see changes over time. The LDC team are always friendly and happy to help with any queries we have.

Alana Sutton
Senior Analyst, PMA

The data LDC are providing through their Online Insights Platform and quarterly scorecards is giving us valuable insights into the composition of high streets and town centres across Lambeth. We can explore the mix of uses, vacancies and other key characteristics and trends in much finer grained detail than we have been able to using other datasets.  The LDC team are great to work with and have provided a lot of upfront support to ensure our locations of focus and scorecard categories are set up provide us the most useable analysis and insights possible.

Laura Davy
Head of High Streets, Lambeth Council

After opening a number of successful dark kitchens and with home delivery being an even more critical part of our strategy due to the covid-19 pandemic, Chopstix Group enlisted Local Data Company to support in the expansion of our dark kitchen network. LDC analysed the existing sites to establish drivers of performance and used this as a framework for identifying what the market capacity was for this concept as well as providing us with a list of locations to target. It was critical for us to work with live and accurate data for this project, and the experienced team at LDC helped up carve out a strategic plan of action against set against a complex market background.

Jon Lake
Managing Director, Chopstix

LDC data provides the most comprehensive insight into retail occupancy nationally.  With the data we can better appreciate variations of retail vacancy and the profile and footprint of retail provision across all retail places, and how the landscape has changed over time.

Tom Whittington
Director, Retail & Leisure Research, Savills

We have been regularly using Local Data Online to provide evidence on town centre vacancy rates for local retail centres around Devon and HotSW LEP. This has been particularly useful for both our monitoring of pandemic economic impacts that we report locally and to Government and for designing targeted interventions to form part of a Devon Covid economic recovery package of measures.

Jon Selby
Economic Development Officer, Devon County Council

The Local Data Company has become an integral part of our business decision-making process as we continue to grow. The depth and quality of the information provided by LDC gives us the confidence to know that we have a full understanding of the key factors & trends in any given location.

 

Randeep Bansal

Head of Property, Wasabi

We make extensive use of the LDO dashboard to put data behind the decision-making process across the core areas of our retail business. The Location Overview, vacancy rate and Health Index features dovetail with our other data sources to inform understanding of the strengths of an asset as well as potential areas for improvement. This understanding feeds into our ever-evolving asset strategies in addition to informing the investment decisions we take.

Joe Oxley

Senior Insight Manager, Landsec

The NHBF produces an annual compendium of Industry Statistics for the hair and beauty sector, which includes data on regional distribution of salons, the number of business openings and closures and survival rates provided by the Local Data Company. This helps us provide an accurate, up to date picture of the sector, which has been invaluable in making the case to Government for support through the pandemic and towards recovery.

Richard Lambert
Chief Executive, NHBF