About Insight

 

Insight

Insight is a UK based international research and events business specialising in the convenience and petroleum retail industry. Insight is European Partner for NACS,(nacsonline.com), the international association for convenience and petroleum retail based in Washington DC.

Insight Research

Insight Research has a long-established reputation as objective international convenience and petroleum industry experts. We specialise in helping retailers, oil companies and suppliers benchmark their businesses against global best practice in convenience & petroleum retail.

We do this through carrying out international research, developing tailored store visit programmes, conducting store reviews, facilitating peer reviews and introducing clients to associate consultants and consultancies. We are continuously engaged in identifying best practice and have close relationships with leading convenience and petroleum retailers worldwide.

View videos of recent international convenience and petroleum retail formats we rate very highly: (Waitrose, Applegreen, Tesco Express, Pick n Pay South Africa and Tesco Fresh & Easy).

Insight Conferences Ltd

Insight Conferences Ltd are a global leader in C-store events, responsible for some of the highest profile international convenience store and petroleum industry events in the business calendar.

Insight Conferences specialise in delivering events which feature a truly international line up of presenters and are attended by a senior level of audience of international convenience industry retailers and suppliers. At many of our events, over 50% of our audience is at CEO and senior director level. View details of our most recent events.

Our events are sponsored and supported by some of the world's largest and highest profile C-store and petroleum industry suppliers. Recent sponsors include Imperial Tobacco, Western Union, Merrychef, BARO Lighting, Country Choice, Torex, Tokheim, PetroTechnik, VST, EUROTank, Red Prairie, Japan Tobacco International, Meurs, iGuzzini, Greengate Energy and Graphite UK.

For further information on supporting future Insight events please contact Insight.

Global Convenience Store Focus

Insight also produce a monthly online E-zine featuring the hottest developments in international convenience store retailing. The Global Convenience Store Focus web publication was first launched in October 2008. It is edited by experienced UK trade journalist Fiona Briggs and is published to a Insight global database of over 100 countries and 21,000 senior convenience and petroleum retail contacts.

Each month we deliver essential c-store news from around the globe, new format innovations, market data and analysis plus insight, opinions and comment from leading executives in the sector. Global C-Store Focus is a unique service from Insight, designed to help convenience retailers and suppliers grow their businesses by sharing and highlighting best practice. We have generated considerable international interest over the last year particularly with our “store review” videos benchmarking new Tesco, Waitrose, Applegreen and Pick n Pay C-store formats and our International Convenience Retailer of the Year award.

This exciting new accolade generated entries from Musgrave, Topaz, Sainsbury’s, Pick n Pay South Africa, Mercator Slovenia, Fair Price Singapore and Spar International/China. Online profiles of the entries generated a huge amount of interest online and the final vote, which allowed readers to pick their winner, generated over 2,000 votes. Our January 2010 edition of Global C-Store Focus will see the culmination of this effort with an airplay produced, Imperial Tobacco sponsored film of the winning SPAR China store which we shot in Dongguan City, in Guangdong province, China.

We've also had some great reader feedback from international retailers and suppliers.

For further information on any of Insight's activities, please contact Insight or call Dan Munford, Fidel Gonzalez, or Nick Scherzer at Insight Research on +44 (0) 1938 556 090.