Viewing Plan Reports

The Search for report by attribute screen (Reports tab) allows you to search for and download plan reports. Up to three reports per plan are available to view for users who subscribe to this service.

The report types available are:

• The Goad Catchment Profile. This measures the extent of the local consumer base, in relation to a shopping centre. It also helps you to recognise the individual groups that make up a local population, using Mosaic, the world's leading geodemographic classification system. Mosaic classifies individuals using census, financial, housing and retail data. Combining this with the information on local household composition and age structure enables you to understand the varied lifestyles and behaviours of individual customers. You can then tailor your products, services and communications to suit local markets, build one-to-one customer relations and generate greater brand loyalty.
• The Goad Category Report. This breaks down the retail types for a plan to allow you to undertake a detailed study. The report allows you to examine site quality, evaluate threats and opportunities and assess the vitality and viability for your location. It provides a comprehensive breakdown of floor space and outlet count for all individual trade types in the Convenience, Comparison, Retail Service, Leisure, Financial / Business Services and Vacancy sectors. Using a number of simple indicators, the Goad Category report looks at the retail composition and its impact on local consumers. A simple indexing system acts as an effective gap analysis tool, identifying retail categories that are under or over represented within a shopping area. This in turn can indicate an untapped market or poor consumer demand for particular products or services in a retail area.
• The Goad Centre Report. This defines the retail extent and composition of a centre; showing the number of premises in over 27 retail categories and detailing the space allocation across each of them. A comparison of these figures with the national average illustrates under or over representation by category, allowing you to assess the degree of competition or opportunity within the centre.

To find and download a plan report:

1. Enter the first few letters of the plan name.
2. You may restrict the search to plans within a selected region or of a given plan type. Click the arrow next to the appropriate drop down box and select the region/type required.
3. If you make a mistake or want to change the search click Clear to remove the search criteria and start again.
4. Click Search. The search results are listed in the table.
5. Check the boxes for the individual plan reports you require. You can select reports of one type for all plans listed by checking the Select All box above the appropriate report type column.
6. Click Download Reports.
7. The Save As dialogue is displayed. Browse to the location where you want to save the reports and enter a filename.
8. Click Save.