Levi Strauss & Co.

 Case Study

Consultancy For
Levi's

Optimisation of Levi's current and future retail store network in China & creating a Smart Growth List expansion strategy.

Case Study

Consultancy For Levi's

Optimisation of Levi's current and future retail store network in China & creating a Smart Growth List expansion strategy.

The Challenge

Levi Strauss were seeking a more scientific approach to understanding the performance of their existing store portfolio and wanted GMAP to create an Ideal Network Plan to help formulate a ‘Smart Growth List’ for future store investment across 50 major cities in China


The Approach

  • The latest demographic, competitor stores, market research and ‘points of interest’ datasets were used to quantify current and future market sizes for the 50 focus cities.
  • RetailVision Destinations – Retail Centres and Retail Trade Zones (TZs) – were comprehensively mapped to provide a detailed depiction of China’s retail landscape.
  • GMAP’s bespoke Spatial Model was used to estimate the flow of consumer spend within each city to the defined Centres & TZs.
  • The market share of Levi's was calculated for each Centre and TZ.
  • Future market potential was forecasted using a combination of market trends, future retail and infrastructure developments, such as new shopping malls and underground stations. This enabled GMAP to use their Spatial Model to run future scenarios.
  • The future scenarios allowed quantification of 'headroom' - the incremental sales gained if Levi’s achieve their city market share within each Trade Zone per projected year.
  • A rule-based approach was applied to identify and rank new store opportunities and to assess Levi’s existing store network.
  • Additional catchment analysis identified footfall generators and amenities within proximity of Centres & TZs.
  • The outputs were delivered in MVPLUS; this enabled Levi's to drill-down into the analysis and self-serve their own analysis questions


The Conclusion

GMAP’s Smart Growth List provided Levi’s with a clear scientific future store network plan to support the local and regional teams in their investment decisions. MVPLUS also allowed them to conduct further in-house analysis to support their decision-making. 

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The Challenge

Levi Strauss were seeking a more scientific approach to understanding the performance of their existing store portfolio and wanted GMAP to create an Ideal Network Plan to help formulate a ‘Smart Growth List’ for future store investment across 50 major cities in China


The Approach

  • The latest demographic, competitor stores, market research and ‘points of interest’ datasets were used to quantify current and future market sizes for the 50 focus cities.
  • RetailVision Destinations – Retail Centres and Retail Trade Zones (TZs) – were comprehensively mapped to provide a detailed depiction of China’s retail landscape.
  • GMAP’s bespoke Spatial Model was used to estimate the flow of consumer spend within each city to the defined Centres & TZs.
  • The market share of Levi's was calculated for each Centre and TZ.
  • Future market potential was forecasted using a combination of market trends, future retail and infrastructure developments, such as new shopping malls and underground stations. This enabled GMAP to use their Spatial Model to run future scenarios.
  • The future scenarios allowed quantification of 'headroom' - the incremental sales gained if Levi’s achieve their city market share within each Trade Zone per projected year.
  • A rule-based approach was applied to identify and rank new store opportunities and to assess Levi’s existing store network.
  • Additional catchment analysis identified footfall generators and amenities within proximity of Centres & TZs.
  • The outputs were delivered in MVPLUS; this enabled Levi's to drill-down into the analysis and self-serve their own analysis questions

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The Conclusion

GMAP’s Smart Growth List provided Levi’s with a clear scientific future store network plan to support the local and regional teams in their investment decisions. MVPLUS also allowed them to conduct further in-house analysis to support their decision-making. 

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