Business Blueprints
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Located Brighton, East Sussex United Kingdom
Business Blueprints is a full-service market research consultancy, specialising in advising restaurants, pubs and shopping centres.
Latest Blog Posts
- The rise and rise of online shopping on Nov 18, 2009 in General online shopping shopping xmas
Yet again we see a rise in online shopping; this time for clothes. This puts traditional shopping centres in a difficult situation: not only do shopping centres have to compete with online retailers with much lower overheads, but there is the added c...
- Christmas spend set to fall by 15% on Oct 30, 2009 in Credit crunch General News
Despite signs that the recession is beginning to pass, research we conducted in the past week paints a worrying picture for the high street. The run up to Christmas is the busiest time of the year for most stores; indeed many rely on this period to...
- The power of vouchers on Sep 18, 2009 in Credit crunch Customer service going out
A recent survey we conducted showed that a massive 97% of diners interviewed use restaurant vouchers, thus allowing the offer to dictate both where and when customers eat out nowadays. What is great is that restaurant operators are able to continue t...
- Shopping centres as brands on Sep 4, 2009 in General branding shopping centre
A couple of thoughts for today. Firstly, can a shopping centre ever be more than the name of a large building? And if not, what can be done about an existing name should there ever be a need to change? In the best traditions of yes, no and mayb...
- Economic downturn impacts health food retailer on Aug 26, 2009 in General
When I worked in health products it was certainly quite a conservative business. Own label vitamins were still in their infancy and even in Holland & Barrett there were restrictions on the strength of different supplements. The raciest thing...
- Why track party size? on Aug 7, 2009 in General research shopping
This is question we are often asked, “can you explain to me why you track the size of shopper parties amongst shopping centre visitors and also why you ask spend questions of the shopper party not the individual level?” Well, we know on a...
- Focus Groups Briefing on Jul 29, 2009 in General Qualitative research research
