Retail Intelligence

Understand where retail performs best

huq helps retail and hospitality teams understand how people move, spend, and engage across locations turning real-world activity into confident expansion and performance decisions.

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Trusted by 300+ Retailers, Asset Owners, Councils & Investors

The problem

A lease is a ten year bet. Most are placed on partial data & opinion.

Property and expansion teams still choose sites, set rents and judge stores on annualised averages, one off studies and gut feel, while the best pitches go to whoever moves first. The result is expensive guesswork on openings, closures and renewals.

Win the best sites first

Defend every decision to the IC

Know if it's the store or the street

The platform

Find the best sites before your rivals

Expansion planning, catchment analysis, and store performance often rely on disconnected reports, static datasets, and delayed analysis. huq gives retail teams a clearer understanding of how locations actually perform in the real world in a single platform, updated daily.

Retail Expansion

Portfolio Optimisation

Competitor White Space Modelling

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for every retail category

Whether you're operating a fashion brand, restaurant chain, electronics retailer, or home improvement network, huq helps teams understand customer behaviour, benchmark performance, and identify growth opportunities through real world movement intelligence.

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Apparel & Fashion

Understand shopper behaviour across clothing, footwear, and accessories to support store performance and expansion decisions.

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QSR & Restaurants

Measure demand, visitor patterns, and peak trading periods across coffee shops, fast food brands, and restaurant networks.

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Electronics & Technology

Identify high performing locations and understand customer movement across consumer electronics and technology retail environments.

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Health & Beauty

Track engagement, visit frequency, and local demand across pharmacies, cosmetic retailers, and beauty destinations.

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Home & Furniture

Evaluate catchment quality, visitor origins, and destination performance across furniture and home improvement locations.

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Sport & Leisure

Understand audience behaviour, regional demand, and engagement patterns across sporting goods and leisure retailers.

WHO WE HELP

Ready to Make More Confident Location Decisions?

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The platform

Answer the questions every property team asks.

How busy is this pitch ... really?

Validated daily and historical footfall for any site or catchment, so you can size the opportunity and stress test a pitch before you commit.

Know which sites fit before you send a scout

Postcode level catchment, primary and secondary zones and drive time influence. The true trade area, not a radius drawn on a map.

Are these actually my customers?

Profile real visitors by age, income and lifestyle, and match a pitch to your target shopper before you sign, not after you open.

How does this pitch stack up?

Benchmark any site against competitors and your own estate on one consistent spine. Footfall share, frequency, dwell time and catchment overlap.

Movement & Catchment

See how shoppers move through real world environments.

Track movement patterns, catchment influence, and retail activity across shopping districts, town centres, and commercial areas.

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The Diagnosis

Independent footfall data helps you separate location problems from operational ones. Avoid investing in fixes when the demand simply isn't there or walking away from stores that still have strong market potential.

The Mechanism

By comparing visitation with store performance, you can understand your true capture rate and identify whether changes are needed inside the store or around it.

FOOTFALL INTELLIGENCE

See where retail demand is happening in real time.

Visualise visitor density, peak trading periods, and activity hotspots to identify high performing retail locations.

Visitor Density Mapping

Visualise where customers spend time and which areas attract the highest levels of activity.

Peak Trading Analysis

Identify busy hours, seasonal trends, and changing visitation patterns across locations.

Location Performance Comparison

Compare footfall activity between stores, catchments, and competing retail destinations.

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SPEND INTELLIGENCE

Connect footfall with real consumer spending.

Combine footfall and spend data to understand customer demand, category performance, and commercial opportunity.

Category Spend Analysis

Identify which retail categories generate the highest levels of consumer spending.

Transaction Trends

Track spending patterns over time and uncover emerging growth opportunities.

Revenue Potential Assessment

Evaluate the commercial strength of locations before expansion or investment.

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Customer stories

Trusted by teams shaping modern retail strategy.

92%

of retail strategy teams say movement intelligence improves confidence in expansion and location planning decisions.

Explore customer stories
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"huq's data has been a game-changer for us. The insights into footfall and visitor behaviour have given us the clarity we needed to optimise our retail strategy and make informed decisions."

Tom Haydney

UK Marketing & Product Manager
Kawai

huq’s mobility data helps us to make better investment decisions and allows us to appropriately manage risk on behalf of our investor clients.

Jonathan Bayfield

Head of UK Real Estate Research
Aviva Investors

huq’s platform gave us valuable data to support a key decision on potential new sites.

Dan Brogden

National Sales Manager
Puccinos

faq’s

Questions retail teams ask before making decisions.

Get clarity on how huq supports expansion planning, catchment analysis, and retail performance understanding.

How does huq support retail expansion?
huq helps retail teams identify locations with strong movement patterns, audience alignment and commercial potential, enabling more confident expansion decisions backed by real-world behavioural intelligence.
Q2. Can huq measure footfall and movement?
Can huq measure footfall and movement?
Yes. huq measures how people move through places over time, including footfall trends, visit frequency, dwell time and movement patterns. These insights help retailers understand location performance beyond traditional sales data.
Does huq provide catchment analysis?
Absolutely. huq identifies where visitors come from, how far they travel and which catchments generate the highest value. This helps retailers evaluate store reach, optimise marketing and identify opportunities for expansion.
Can retail teams benchmark competitor locations?
Yes. Retailers can compare locations against competing destinations using movement, catchment, spend behaviour and performance metrics. This makes it easier to understand market position and identify areas with untapped potential.
Does huq support multi-location analysis?
Yes. huq enables organisations to compare multiple stores, regions or portfolios in one platform. Teams can benchmark performance, monitor trends and identify opportunities across their entire retail network.
How can huq help identify the best location for a new store?
huq combines movement, catchment, spending behaviour and demographic insights to evaluate potential locations before investment. This helps retailers reduce risk, compare opportunities objectively and choose sites with the strongest commercial potential.
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