Retail observatory
Have access to an exclusive Retail observatory in France, Belgium and Luxembourg!
All commercial sites are annually studied by our team and are accurately geo-referenced, positioned and mapped.
Commercial site
According to Codata, a commercial site generally meets the following requirements
Our database continues to expand year after year and includes more than 4,700 commercial sites!
- The site is located in an agglomeration of at least 25,000 inhabitants
- The total sales area reaches at least 10,000 sq m by site
- The site counts at least 25 shops including at least one medium-sized shop (2,500 sq m and more)
Features of a commercial site
The listed sites in Codata database are:
- precisely georeferenced and positioned. Thus, a client can accurately import data into his own geographic information system GIS
- accurately mapped, at the level of cadastral parcels
Attributes of Codata commercial sites
- the name of the site according to Codata own denomination
- the geographical position: urban area, periurban area, outlying area
- the type of site: shopping street, retail area, shopping centre, outlet centre, train station – airport and retail park
- the number of present shops and the number of present retailers
- the presence of one or several projects and their type
- the distribution by activity of retail locations, with a distinction between shops and retailers
- vacancy and occupancy rates of shops
- detailed shops statistics
- detailed socio-demographic statistics
Supplementary attributes
- commercial area
- the name of the manager
- l’identité du commercialisateur
- the name of the leasing manager
Retail location
Find the best retail location among 380,000 locations listed in the Codata database!
A Retail Location corresponds to a location that might be occupied by a shop. Thus, the Retail Location can be occupied by a shop or not; it can also be used as a house or for non-commercial purposes (a monument, for instance). As for the shop, it may be of different kinds: retail shop, wholesale shop, restaurant, agency…
Features of a retail location
- precisely georeferenced and positioned. Thus, a client can accurately import data into his own geographic information system GIS
- linked to the official administrative units of the territory to which they belong (country, region/Land/autonomous community/disctrict, province/department/canton/district, district/urban unit, commune/municipality)
- linked to the perimeters defined by Codata in the form of commercial cluster, commercial site or commercial axis
Attributes of a Codata location
- dates of information collection
- the name of the shop that occupies the location
- the precise address of the location
- the activity(ies) of the shop according to a consistent list of Codata activities for the ten listed countries
- the shop belongs or does not belong to a regional, national or international network (retailer)
- the change of identity of the occupier since the last census
- the XY coordinates allowing to accurately position this retail location in the cartographic interface