Newgrove Blog

The grocery sector has always been at the forefront of using location intelligence for strategic planning and site optimisation. In an ever-changing landscape the importance of location intelligence within supermarkets is more significant than ever and now spans across the whole business from real estate to marketing, from logistics to store management.

It’s clear that location intelligence is now critically important when it comes to achieving marketing goals in 2021.

Using location as a marketing tool is important, and the continuing rise in smart device ownership means that it’s time for businesses to turn to geocoding to perform region-specific data analysis.

This is the age of the consumer – and to connect with modern consumers, you’re going to need to use location intelligence (LI), regardless of your industry. That’s right, ALL B2C brands can benefit from the use of LI.

Location planning involves scrutinising the territories of your business and considering whether you’re in the right physical place to meet the needs of your customers. However, it takes two to tango and you should also consider your customers’ locations. The use of...

Location intelligence in banking can be used for a variety of useful security and marketing purposes, and we’ll explore four of those uses below: 1) Increased geo-relevance In previous times, banks and other financial institutions would target potential customers...

If you sometimes find yourself staring at your sales reports but struggling to connect the 'what' with the 'why', it could be that the missing ingredient is the 'where'. Location intelligence can put your sales data in context. Meet Joe Let's take the fictional...

Bakery chain Greggs has twice as many UK locations as Starbucks, and this is no accident. The company has a unique location strategy involving the seemingly counter-intuitive decision to open several outlets in close proximity to each other. It has also focused its...

Location intelligence is best known as a way of analysing the performance of existing sites, and using that analysis to make decisions about product lines, staffing levels and many other variables. Yet this is only scratching the surface of what advanced location...

The beginning of a brand-new decade is the perfect time to reassess your business strategy and future-proof your organisation. This task is as broad-ranging and ambitious as it sounds, so a time-saving location intelligence tool that yields fresh insights is a must....

If there's one brand that epitomises the benefits of location intelligence and geofencing, it's Burger King. "McDonald's little brother", as the chain is often referred to, has a long history of goading its bigger rival in order to cut into its market share. In...

Facebook is well-known amongst marketers as the world's leading platform for creating highly targeted advertising campaigns. Of course, the success of the targeting depends upon how well the advertiser has understood its customers. Marketing advice often refers to the...