Who’s Who
Buxton was founded on a unique premise—to assist enterprises in building success by accurately identifying their customers. Leading the industry in customer analytics and retail site-selection technology, Buxton provides actionable solutions in customer-based site selection and targeted marketing to major retailers, developers and communities nationwide. With more than 500 years of cumulative executive retail experience and more than 1,700 clients, Buxton understands what retailers need to know before they make their site-selection decisions.
Featured solution: Since 1994, Buxton’s real estate solutions have helped some of America’s leading retailers select high-performing locations for their stores. With the company’s innovative customer analytics, every decision is backed by hard facts and objective data.
Buxton’s comprehensive real estate solutions can even predict store performance with great accuracy, helping retailers allocate the right resources for each location.
Pitney Bowes MapInfo (PBMI) Location Intelligence solutions range from powerful demographic and site-analysis research tools to custom Predictive Analytics models that help retailers, restaurants and real estate developers more intelligently forecast sales and prioritize locations and markets for strategic development and profitable growth.
PBMI has the unique ability to combine real-world customer transaction and sales data, demographics, psychographics, competitive intelligence and spatial analysis with proven predictive analytic methodologies to help customers solve mission-critical needs and create a strategic blueprint for successful expansion.
Featured product: GroundView—PBMI Next Generation Demographics—provides retailers with the reliable, consistent data needed to make confident decisions in site selection, targeted-marketing campaigns, distribution, product development and other key business areas. Compatible with all PBMI software applications, GroundView data excels with quarterly updates to ensure the most up-to-date data on rapidly changing markets, allowing retailers to base decisions on timely information. Visit
Virtual Premise, Inc. (VP) is a leading provider of Web-based real estate information-management solutions for corporations, landlords, commercial real estate service providers, retailers and restaurants. VP’s solutions give companies a smart, easy way to collect, manage and report on complex real estate information. Based on .NET technologies and SAS 70 Type II compliant, VP solutions include portfolio management, lease management, lease administration, project management, transaction management and document management. VP also offers supporting services, including lease abstracting, document scanning and indexing, data-integrity sampling, due diligence and data audits.
Featured solution: Percent rent management made easy, Virtual Premise automatically calculates, processes and reconciles percent rent, saving customers time and money. Percent rent is part of VP Retail Edition and VP Restaurant Edition—Web-based solutions that eliminate the complexity of managing the entire retail and restaurant real estate life cycle.
Nielsen Claritas is the pre-eminent source of marketing information about people, households and businesses within any geographic area in the United States. It is a part of The Nielsen Co., a global-information and media company with leading market positions in marketing information (ACNielsen), media information (Nielsen Media Research), online intelligence (NetRatings and BuzzMetrics), mobile measurement, trade shows and business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek). The privately held company is active in more than 100 countries and is headquartered in New York City.
Featured solution: PrimeLocation is the first site-location software application to fully integrate advanced mapping, modeling and data-management capabilities. It offers a macro-to-micro approach, shareable scenarios and unique industry databases for accurate and actionable analysis.