Your retail store planning agency
With a staggering 40 years’ experience and a team of 54 colleagues with in-depth retail knowledge, our retail planners bring extensive expertise to every project. They understand the evolution of retail macro store design across grocery, non-food, DIY, pharmacy, clothing, and jewellery.
This deep-level experience, means that our retail knowledge optimises your shop floor sales potential from the moment you open.
We are proud to be the chosen retail planning partner for many well-known retail names nationally & internationally. This includes 3 of the top 6 UK retailers: Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons, with relationships spanning more than 15 years.
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Additonally, our comprehensive retail planning services provide an integrated solution for clients wanting to maximise their physical presence. By creating a single source of accurate data, you’ll work with greater efficiency and achieve more with a smaller team. Our team effectively becomes an extension of your own.
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Tailored retail planning support when you need it
Each project is led by a client-specific manager and supported by the UK’s largest team of skilled retail planners. Consequently, they will ensure your project is delivered on time and within budget.
As well as meeting short deadlines, our experts can provide a quick turnaround on projects with the help of the latest planning software to reduce time and processes. Whether you want on-going or ad-hoc support, we offer a flexible service with a clear pricing structure that you can switch on and off as your needs dictate.
“For over 15 years, CADS has been providing essential support for our store planning function that enables us to deliver accurate store plans for branches, partners, contractors and suppliers on time.”
Chris Wilson, Store Development Group Manager, Waitrose
Read Waitrose case studyCreating high performing model store layouts
We will create future store designs based on existing knowledge, by analysing the layout of your best and worst performing stores. Depending on the size of your estate you will need to create a variety of models to address your different store types and shopper missions.
Store planning best practice
We can also guide you in developing best practice store planning principles and processes to build consistency into your store plans. This gives your retail planners an array of ideas on how to improve the profitability of poorly performing stores.
A quality process that means ‘right first time’
Every drawing that passes through our retail planning team is checked. A dedicated quality controller checks and verifies the drawings. They follow your brief meticulously to ensure complete accuracy and minimal disruption during in-store implementation.
Many of our clients return to us because they know they will receive exactly what they asked for within the timescale they set.
Cost-effective retail space planning for fashion and non-food areas
The layout of clothing and non-food areas is just as critical as planning space for grocery. As retailers continue to evolve their store formats, optimising space for fashion and range has become increasingly important to maximise sales. As a result, seamless seasonal range reviews are completed accurately and on time. In contrast, older layouts often failed to optimise space for fashion and range.
Our team records and analyses existing store equipment to identify where assets can be re-used. This helps to minimise design costs and ensure budgets are met – all while maintaining consistency across your retail estate.
Retail space planning for profitable store layouts
Access profitable shop layouts, and receive a turn-key service with our in-house CADS Surveys retail surveyors and experienced team of retail project planners using StoreSpace® space planning software. You’ll make a marked improvement in the profitability of your commercial premise with the combination of micro and macro space planning working in synchronicity.
Office space planning
Effective office planning is about more than front-of-house areas.
Our experienced commercial and retail space planners know how to optimise functional space while accommodating detailed system integrations.
As you might imagine, we enjoy creating and managing floor plans that maximise space and workflow for clients, ask us for examples and industry types. We’ve helped a variety of businesses just like yours.
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Using our CAD drawing services, tailored software and extensive experience, we create 2D CAD drawings and 3D Matterport Digital Twins which ensure you are using your available space effectively.
By applying our expertise, we design legally compliant, practical spaces that improve staff efficiency, enhance internal communications, and meet legal and building regulations.
Floor plan designers
Our team works closely with senior stakeholders to secure approvals for refits, relocations, or rebuilds.
With our trusted internal systems and knowledge of key industries, our macro retail floor plan designers will isolate all key components that will enhance efficiencies for both retail and commercial space floor plan design.
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Complementary services to optimise your retail space
Our multi-disciplinary services help you manage and maximise your store environments with confidence.
Store planning services
With the largest team of experienced UK-based retail planners, we provide a knowledgeable resource as an add-on to your team for all in-store layout changes including refurbishment projects and seasonal range reviews.
StoreSpace® software
StoreSpace® is the intuitive AutoCAD-based retail space planning software that will enable you to improve the profitability of your stores, from CADS' sister company StoreSpace Insights.
Retail store surveys
Our experienced surveyors work throughout the UK and Europe to tailor your retail survey contents to meet your project requirements and budget. CADS Surveys is well postioned to deliver rollout projects for our retail clients quickly, with minimal lead time.
Retail architects
CADS' sister company Prosper delivers outstanding retail architecture, design, and interiors for a wide range of clients, especially major retail groups and shopfitting companies.
Retail design services
Our sister company, retail design agency Prosper, provides the inspiration to turn your space into an engaging place and your store into an immersive shopping experience that will delight your customers.
Optimise your retail store layout
Take the next step and speak to the CADS team to see how our retail store planning expertise can support your brand transformation.
