Ready-made, curated reporting that answers the commercial questions that matter.
Data-led retail activations—plan, target, execute, and measure performance in-flight.
Tailored analysis built around a specific challenge, category, activation, or hypothesis.
Access a live EPOS feed showing what’s selling, where, when, and at what price – updated daily.
Top brands use our data to shine a light on independent convenience.
We work collaboratively with leading field marketing partners and global FMCG brands, providing the sector’s most accurate independent convenience data set.
Our partnership with Retail Spotlight has been pivotal in our shared mission to help brands generate insight and direction through access to market leading EPOS data. Starting in the symbol and independent retail in 2020, through to today where we collectively offer analytics across three sectors, it’s been an exciting journey.
Throughout, Retail Spotlight have been agile, collaborative, and user focused. We value our partnership highly and look forward to continuing to unlock sales growth for brands together.
We’ve been working with Retail Spotlight for over two years, and their EPOS data has become a cornerstone of our convenience strategy. With coverage across more than 11,000 UK convenience stores, their data allow us to spot distribution gaps, measure the value of our interventions, and drive our brands’ performance with confidence.
We also use the power of their data to fuel gap-filling sales alerts through our unique convenience app *shopt, enabling smarter, targeted action in the field. The partnership is strong, the service is consistently reliable, and we’re excited to continue growing our relationship into 2026.
TWC Group has been working with the Retail Spotlight / ITG team for almost 3 years. Our partnership has enabled TWC Group to launch SmartView Convenience, a market read for the wholesaler supplied / independent c store market, often described as the ‘harder to reach’ part of small format retailing.
We are very grateful to RS/ITG for their ongoing partnership.
They are great to deal with on both a personal and professional level. They share the same passion for accurate reflective data as us and a shared desire to see the independent sector thrive.
The team at Retail Spotlight are great to work with. They handle our data requests knowledgeably and make even complex tasks feel simple. Their clear communication and collaborative approach make them an easy and reliable partner for delivering quality insights to our brand partners.
The data provided by the ITG team is invaluable for us. Our nearly seven-year partnership has helped us create exclusive content for our independent convenience retail readers, as well as giving them a real insight into the products that actually sell in stores like theirs.
ITG and Retail Spotlight have a real knowledge of the convenience retail channel, are responsive to questions and queries, and their collaborative approach to ensuring we’re giving our audience what they want and need is second to none.
It is a true partnership, and we are looking forward to it continuing in the future as more and more retailers within the channel look to understand how to gain an edge over their competitors.
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What makes Retail Spotlight different?
Our data comes directly from real transactions in over 14,000 independent convenience, vape, and pharmacy stores. No modelling, no extrapolation. Just clean, unified, store-level EPOS data you can trust. Brands and partners use it to see genuine performance, validate decisions, and act with clarity and confidence.
Who uses your data and services?
FMCG brands, field marketing agencies, category teams, commercial leads, and activation specialists rely on our intelligence. Whether you need a continuous feed, curated reporting, a one-off analysis, campaign activation and measurement, or all of the above, we provide the insight needed to understand performance and unlock opportunity across independents.
How often is the data refreshed?
We get data daily and work with clients to give them data at the cadence that works for them, giving them a near real-time view of product performance, pricing, distribution, and competitor movement. This cadence lets you react quickly – spotting trends, validating campaigns, understanding regional differences, and making faster, better-informed commercial decisions without waiting for long reporting cycles.
How do I know which product is right for me?
Start with the outcome you need. If you need ready-made answers, go with Insights. If you want continuous visibility, choose Continuous Data. If your question is unique or complex, Bespoke will shape the analysis around you, and if you’re running activity, Activations gives you planning, targeting, and in-flight measurement, and reporting.
Do you work directly with brands or only via partners?
Both. We collaborate closely with field marketing partners and also support brands directly when a more hands-on relationship is needed. Our goal is simple: provide the clearest, most actionable view of the independent sector – whether that’s delivered through your existing partner or via a direct engagement with our team.
