Our Story
Founded in 1990, O&U began life as Oxford Retail Consultants, a retail management consultancy, always with a focus on GIS - mapping of data. We developed our own catchment forecasting models to not only modelling turnover of schemes and individual operators, but forecasting performance and affordable rent over time, accounting for all changes in market conditions.
Our expertise and accuracy led us to an 18 year relationship with British Land, Sainsburys & Tesco and working with the food store rent review team, forecasting turnover, P&L performance and affordable rent and providing them with expert witness representation in tribunals.
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​​Demand grew for our clients to access our data in a plethora of different markets, providing solutions directly - and so applications for our GIS system StorePointGeo expanded into other areas of the consumer market. Today it is the market leading GIS used by strategy consultants, investors, property consultants and occupiers.
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We have developed MApp which uses pings from mobile devices to validate and calibrate catchments. We have also moved in to the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space iwth the most comprehensive and up to date database of UPCs in GB, used it to inform strategies and product distribution.
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