"Finding the locations that matter"
Retail Location Analysis runs annually in the Spring. The 26th programme ran in April 2012, supported by CACI.
The programme offers managers with oversight of planning, development and site assessment - from retail, consumer service, property and other professional services businesses - the opportunity to explore the latest thinking in retail location analysis. The programme remains the only one of its kind.
Substantial challenges continue to face developed markets across the world as economies continue to experience challenges which have direct effects upon consumers' confidence and retail spending. The main priority for location analysis professionals will remain the continuous evaluation of existing sites, the optimisation of network performance - and consideration of further selective disposals. For some still high performing businesses, however, exploring the opportunities presented by newly vacated sites, or running the sliderule over potential acquisitions, is still a real possibility. And in many emerging markets, the prospects for network growth remain substantial.
We believe that our three-day residential programme is the only one of its kind. Our tried and tested, deliberately small scale approach, encourages discussion with speakers and individual learning through techniques workshops. The programme is run in partnership between Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, and Dr David Rogers from DSR Marketing Systems in the US. They share over 50 years of experience in site location issues. Other contributions are made by visiting practitioners and experts. Location planning specialists CACI have worked with Oxford for the past two years to support the Retail Location Analysis programme.
Sessions offered in 2012 included:
- Developing a location research methodology
- The analogue method
- Economic trends and implications for location analysts
- Network rationalisation and research for existing stores
- Data workshop: new sources, new methods
- Multivariate analysis
- Advances in data visualisation
- Online and the implications for real estate and network planning
- Regulation or regeneration: assessing the response to the Portas Review
- Gravity and spatial interaction modelling
Programme Fees:
The programme fee for 2012 was £2,500, and included tuition, materials and meals. Accommodation is provided on campus for two nights at an additional rate.
Click here to view the Programme Brochure. If you would like to discuss the programme in further detail, please contact Steve Brewster by email at steve.brewster@sbs.ox.ac.uk or call +44(0)1865 422727.
Dates for 2013 will be posted here later in 2012.
What participants have said about the programme:
"Excellent – high quality presentations, well organised, good people presenting and attending."
"Excellent. Unlike anything I have seen in the States: a brilliant networking programme, which allows the introduction of theory as well as a sharing of problems between companies."
Practitioner session: "clear, concise and honest."
"Very good. Almost unique in terms of content."