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Geolytix France

Geolytix is excited to announce we open our French office. Welcome Stéphane Martis to the team.

Published 18th May 2022 • Tags our-team

Welcome to Oxygen!

Back at the beginning of April we were invited to embrace our inner children and bounce our way around Oxygen Freejumping at the O2.

Published 18th May 2022 • Tags market-visits, our-team

Mental Health & Team Wellbeing at Geolytix

Mental Health and Our Team's wellbeing is something we prioritise at Geolytix. Click to read more about what we do for our team...

Published 10th May 2022 • Tags our-team

A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist

Ever wondered what the life of a Data Scientist is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...

Published 10th May 2022 • Tags career, our-team

A Day in the Life of a Data Analyst

Ever wondered what the life of a Data Analyst is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...

Published 10th May 2022 • Tags career, our-team

Geolytix: The Graduate Route

Matt joined Geolytix straight from University, after graduating with a Degree in Geography. Here he tells us about his role as a Data Analyst....

Published 10th May 2022 • Tags career, our-team

A Day in the life of a Location Planning Partner

Ever wondered what the life of a Location Planner is like at Geolytix is like? Read more to find out...

Published 10th May 2022 • Tags career, our-team

Geolytix: The Apprentice Route

Becca joined Geolytix straight from college as a data apprentice. Now a fully qualified Data Analyst, Becca tells us about a day in her role...

Published 10th May 2022 • Tags career, our-team

UK Retail Points - Supermarket Locations 2022Q1

A strong start in the first quarter of 2022 for the UK grocery market. The opening and addition of 196 stores and 48 closures in our latest data release.

Published 21st April 2022 • Tags open-data

Geolytix, Geolytics, Geolytic

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” - William Shakespeare

Published 28th March 2022 • Tags our-team

Scotland's Census 2022

Scotland's Census Day is 20 March 2022.

Published 18th March 2022 • Tags census

The Women of Geolytix

International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on the 8th March. This year the women of Geolytix shared a more personal side to them through story maps.

Published 17th March 2022 • Tags our-team

Porto: Bridges, Hills, Port and Viewpoints

At last, time to dust off the trusty Geolytix tote for my first overseas adventure since the start of 2020. Where's Lou goes international... my first destination: Porto, Portugal's 'second city'.

Published 23rd February 2022 • Tags team-thoughts

GEOLYTIX and GEOMOB podcast

Blair sat down with Steve of GEOMOB to talk about all things GeoInnovation. Scroll down to listen to the podcast..

Published 15th February 2022 • Tags our-team

UKBIA22 Awards Winner

Published 14th February 2022 • Tags awards

Introducing... Locate

Ever wanted to quickly find the nearest supermarket to your Airbnb? Or the nearest branch that you bank with? We are using the XYZ framework (which underpins MAPP) to allow you to do just that.

Published 27th January 2022 • Tags mapp

Mental Health in the Geolytix workplace

The first week of January saw the MHFA team in Geolytix plan on how we could help embrace and protect mental health amongst the team. Read more to see our plans...

Published 26th January 2022 • Tags our-team

Blossom in the Year of the Tiger

Coco discusses Chinese New Year traditions, and the slight alterations made throughout the pandemic.

Published 26th January 2022 • Tags team-thoughts

UK Supermarket Retail Points - Q4 2021

The 22nd version and final update for 2021 of UK Supermarket Retail Points is available. Aldi continues it's expansion, Morrisons Daily stores increase and Mere enters the market.

Published 22nd December 2021 • Tags open-data

My work experience week at Geolytix

Gagan Singh Virk joined us in October on a work experience placement from NewVic college. Here he details his week with us...

Published 30th November 2021 • Tags team-thoughts

Studying through a pandemic

Last Thursday was postgraduate results day at the University of Leeds, and although graduation is still a long way away (thanks to Covid-19 I haven’t even had my undergraduate graduation ceremony yet), it feels like a perfect time to reflect on this chapter of my life.

Published 25th November 2021 • Tags our-team

Becoming a micro multinational

Over the years, Geolytix has grown internationally. Ben Purple, our Business Director, tells how our growth wasn't exactly how we originally envisioned.

Published 25th November 2021 • Tags our-team

10% of our team are now Mental Health First Aiders

Donna, Rachel, Josh and Kate recently qualified as Mental Health First Aiders. Here they talk about their reasons for qualifying and their plans for supporting the team at Geolytix.

Published 23rd November 2021 • Tags our-team

Pop Up Horsham –helping pandemic entrepreneurs reinvent the high street.

Kate visited Pop Up Horsham, a council led scheme aimed at helping both reinvent the high street whilst supporting local small businesses created during Lockdown...

Published 18th November 2021 • Tags market-visits

Queen's Award 2021 - a Windsor Castle celebration

Last night we were invited to Windsor Castle to attend a celebratory reception for the Queens Award.

Published 11th November 2021 • Tags awards

My Reading Roadtrip with Geolytix

In September, back when days were longer and the weather a little warmer, Jasper and a few of the team headed out to Reading for a site visit. He writes about the day below...

Published 9th November 2021 • Tags market-visits

Bonfire Societies - a Sussex phenomenon?

Remember, remember the 5th of November... Realising her bonfire night was a Sussex tradition, Kate talks about the world of Bonfire Societies, using MAPP to look at the possible impact of the festivities road closures.

Published 5th November 2021 • Tags team-thoughts

Opening up the World of Location Planning with COOK

COOK approached us, keen to open more shops and concessions; they requested a toolset that would help support them in understanding and analysing the potential of new locations. Challenge accepted, we got to work...

Published 2nd November 2021 • Tags team-thoughts

The top 10 things I learned on the ten-year Geolytix journey

Blair, our CEO has reflected on his 10 years at Geolytix, and has jotted down 10 things that he has learned in the past decade.

Published 28th October 2021 • Tags team-thoughts

10 new GeoData packs in 10 countries

Not only are we celebrating 10 years of Geolytix this month we have been busy created new GeoData for 10 countries.

Published 28th October 2021 • Tags geodata

10 years of success stories

Geolytix wouldn't be successful without its clients; to celebrate 10 years, we thought we would look back on 10 of our UK projects that have helped us become the company we are today.

Published 27th October 2021 • Tags team-thoughts

Top 10 MAPP features

To celebrate 10 years of Geolytix, we couldn't forget MAPP. As MAPP isn't 10 years old yet, we thought we would celebrate our top 10 features instead...

Published 27th October 2021 • Tags mapp

Ready, set, 'GetGo'

Last week Tesco opened its first checkout-free store, 'GetGo' in High Holborn. We couldn't pass up the opportunity for a site visit!

Published 26th October 2021 • Tags market-visits

Refill Stores

Can I get a refill? Zero waste suppliers are on the rise in the UK, and I've been trying out a few innovative local options.

Published 19th October 2021 • Tags team-thoughts

Growing our affluence (proxies) - finding the rich and the rest

Sometimes to get the perfect data, you have to think outside the box. Faced with a data limitation, Clive our Data Scientist, turned to Facebook to answer a few affluence questions

Published 29th September 2021 • Tags team-thoughts

University Halls – are they designed with walking in mind?

Moving to university comes with a lot of big decisions, including which university halls of residence. MAPP can make this decision a little easier; read below to find out how...

Published 29th September 2021 • Tags mapp