Thanks to all 70 of you who attended our first in-person SLA event for many years. We had 90 people booking to attend and were thrilled to see so many of you able to join us.
From Surviving to Thriving, 13 May
We thought this upcoming event would be of interest to many of you. Register below for FREE and download your free ebook:
Read moreResilience and Sustainability, 18th May, 5.30pm
In our next event, our theme will be resilience and sustainability. We’ll be looking at how resilient the industry has been over the last year…
Read moreFrom retail to resorts: the repurposing of shopping centres
Date and Time: 4th December 2019 6pm for a 6.30pm start-8pm
Venue: Savills, 33 Margaret Street, London W1G 0JD
An Introduction to Retail Property
Brought to you by Property Overview, this one day course is great value, and gives you, as an SLA member, 15% off!
- “An Introduction to Retail Property” – 1 day course
- Date: Monday 1 October, 9:30am – 5pm, Central London
- Price: standard price £450pp+VAT, SLA member price £382pp+VAT
The aim is to provide a foundation knowledge on the retail property industry and how it all fits together. It provides wider context for the Location Analysts. How does the shop location fit into the bigger investment picture?
Location planning: salaries, skills and transformation – 25th April – London
Venue: Shoreditch Platform
Address: 1 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8AA
Nearest tube: Old Street
Date: Wednesday, 25th April
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start; 7.45 networking
Our April meeting will focus on some of the practical personal development and skills challenges facing location planners and customer insight professionals in the context of the increasingly rapid and radical changes affecting retail, hospitality and service sectors. Amongst our speakers will be Steve Halsall, Founder of Red Tiger Consulting (formerly with Grant Thornton & CACI), who will provide the results of his latest annual survey of salary & benefits of location planning practitioners. Also speaking will be Steph Durbin-Wood, founder of Prospect Coaching, who will address issues ranging from behavioural impact, emotional intelligence and dealing with transformational change, drawing on her experience as (variously) National Location Planning Manager, Head of Capital Investment and Senior Transformation Manager for the Co-operative Group.
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Format innovation & retail real estate, London, 5th October, 2016
Venue: DAC Beachcroft LLP, 100 Fetter Lane, London DAC Beachcroft LLP, 100 Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1BN
Nearest tube: Chancery Lane
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start; 8.00pm networking
This is a joint SLA/SPR event. This October meeting will explore some of the physical & spatial consequences for retail real estate of the innovation and transformation of the sector. With innovations ranging from pop-up stores to reconfigured & refurbished shopping centres; and new distribution and logistics requirements for the omnichannel, the task of understanding the evolving footprint of the retail ecosystem becomes ever more complex. Three speakers will present their perspectives on this topic and the session will conclude with a panel discussion.
Speakers include:
- Stephanie McMahon, Strutt & Parker – (Panel Chair)
- Ben Dimson, Head of Retail Business Development, British Land https://www.linkedin.com/in/bendimson
- Jon Sleeman, Head of UK Logistics & Industrial Research, JLL (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-sleeman-6a68b674)
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SLA Undergraduate Awards
We will also take the opportunity of awarding this year’s SLA Student Undergraduate Awards at the meeting. This is an opportunity to reward final year undergraduate students who have achieved excellence in the broad field of location analysis. The awards are open to final year students registered at UK Universities in the 2015/16 academic year and undertaking dissertations or extended projects involving location analysis. You can read more here: https://thesla.org/student-undergraduate-awards/
SLA is sponsored by CACI and Geolytix. We are grateful to them and to DACB for providing the venue for this meeting.
To reserve your place to attend this free event please email info@thesla.org
Speaker’s Biographies
Ben Dimson, Head of Retail Business Development, British Land
Ben Dimson is Head of Retail Business Development at British Land, having joined the company in 2011 as a Strategy Executive. Prior to that, Ben worked as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company, having completed an MBA at London Business School. Ben also sits on the board of Broadgate Estates, a property management company owned by British Land.
Spatial Analysis and the Omnichannel, London, 15th June 2016
Venue: Grant Thornton, 30 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AG
Nearest tube: Moorgate, Liverpool Street
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start; 8.00pm networking
The June meeting of SLA will focus on a current view of the analytical and strategic consequences of the omnichannel for firms. Michael Flood, from John Lewis Partnership, has been at the forefront of strategic customer relationship management for a number of years. For the last eight of these he has worked for a 150 year-old business which has tackled head-on the journey to omnichannel retail.
Michael’s talk is entitled: “Planning for a no channel future?” Jonathan Reynolds has written and researched on omnichannel retailing for nearly thirty years – well before the term was coined. He will offer his reflections on the challenges of analysis; and shares insights from new research being conducted by the Consumer Data Research Centre into the e-resilience of English town and city centres. Finally, we take the opportunity of coming together as a group to hear from Steve Halsall who, as members know is a founder member of SLA and has been most recently involved in a salary survey of SLA members. He will share his findings with you. As ever, there will be an opportunity for networking after the presentations and Q&A.
SLA is sponsored by CACI and Geolytix. We are grateful to them and to Grant Thornton for providing the venue for this meeting.
To reserve your place to attend this free event please email info@thesla.org
Speakers include:
- Michael Flood, Manager, Strategic Customer Analysis, John Lewis Partnership – ‘Planning for a no channel future’
- Jonathan Reynolds, Director, Oxford Institute of Retail Management, University of Oxford
- Steve Halsall, Consultant, Grant Thornton; former Lead Partner, CACI.
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- Dr. Jonathan Reynolds, Said Business School. University of Oxford – Spatial analysis & the omnichannel: the challenges
- Michael Flood, John Lewis Strategy – Planning for a No-channel Future?
Retail Location Analysis Programme 2016, Oxford
Dates and venue
- Date: 15th March 2016 – 17th March 2016
- Venue: University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, Executive Education Centre, Egrove Park, Oxford, OX1 5NY
- Directions to Egrove Park
- Map: Venue on map
Description
The Retail Location Analysis Programme is a world leading 3-day development workshop for executives at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
Celebrating its 30th year in 2016, Retail Location Analysis is designed for managers with oversight of or day-to-day responsibility for planning and development. Past participants have been drawn from retail, financial and other consumer services, property and retail professional service firms. Participants come from across the world and build global networks and understanding.
The workshop provides an excellent opportunity to discuss and debate the future of the sector in an omni-channel world, with leading international faculty and professionals. You will share expertise with senior level peers from across the globe. In particular, the workshop:
- Encourages discussion with speakers and individual learning through techniques workshops
- Allows for open debate through case studies delivered by a series of invited senior practitioners
- Provides an understanding of the changing context within which locational decision making affecting store and non-store networks through a series of expert briefings.
It is run by the Business School’s Oxford Institute of Retail Management and forms part of the training offered by the ESRC’s Consumer Data Research Centre. It is co-directed by Dr Jonathan Reynolds, Academic Director of the Institute and Dr David Rogers, from DSR Marketing Systems in the US. We believe that our three-day residential programme is the only one of its kind.
Links:
Download the Retail Location Analysis programme 2016 brochure here.
You can book a place on the programme here.
Further information is available here or contact Claudia Seiler: Claudia.Seiler@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Standard £2950.00
Oxford Alumni card holders (15% discount) £2507.50
Individual members of The Society of Location Analysis (10% discount) £2655.00
Optional:
2 nights accommodation (bed and breakfast) at Executive Education Centre, Egrove Park, Oxford, 15th & 16th March 2016 £184.00