StoreSpace

What StoreSpace does

StoreSpace Insights Ltd. is a UK-based private software company headquartered in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, that develops retail space planning software for enterprise retailers. The company operates with a small team of 9 employees and serves retail brands globally across grocery, fashion, and pharmacy verticals, with named customers including Marks & Spencer (a 10-year relationship), Primark, Henderson Group (Spar), Well Pharmacy (780 pharmacies), Apotek Hjärtat (400 outlets), and Grupo Merza (266 stores).

The core product, StoreSpace®, is an AutoCAD-native planning environment that allows retail planners to create, edit, and optimize store floor plans directly within .dwg files using drag-and-drop tools and intelligent block libraries tied to exact equipment specifications. The platform integrates macro-level floor planning with micro-level category and planogram management via native integration with NielsenIQ Spaceman, and extends to a cloud portal (StoreSpaceOnline) for real-time plan distribution and two-way store-team communication across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Supporting capabilities include Store Insights analytics, Revit Exchange, Matterport Digital Twin integration via sister company CADS Surveys, and a structured Customer Success Programme with 6-12 week onboarding.

The company monetizes through enterprise software subscriptions under a quote-based, demo-driven sales motion. It is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds or parent entity, holds ISO 27001 certification, operates across the UK, EU, and North America, and won the Retail Tech Breakthrough Award in 2025.

Name

StoreSpace

Legal name

StoreSpace Insights Ltd.

Website

https://storespaceinsights.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

StoreSpace Insights Ltd. is a UK-based software company providing AutoCAD-native retail space planning software for enterprise grocery, fashion, and pharmacy retailers, integrating macro floor planning with NielsenIQ Spaceman planograms and a cloud portal for in-store collaboration.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Great Yarmouth

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software licensing and subscription: StoreSpace operates as a software platform with likely annual or multi-year subscription licensing model based on enterprise sales motion with demo requests and structured onboarding process. The company provides a Customer Success Programme suggesting recurring revenue relationships with clients.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

StoreSpace develops and sells an AutoCAD-based retail space planning software platform that operates directly within .dwg files, enabling macro-level floor planning and micro-level category and planogram management. The platform integrates with the StoreSpaceOnline cloud portal for two-way plan distribution to in-store teams, and connects natively with NielsenIQ Spaceman planograms and Matterport Digital Twins. It is sold as enterprise software to retail planning functions in grocery, fashion, and pharmacy chains globally, supported by a structured Customer Success onboarding programme, data migration services, and 3D Matterport survey services.

Product overview

StoreSpace offers a unified retail space planning platform built around its core AutoCAD-based StoreSpace® software. The platform comprises the main StoreSpace® planning environment and the StoreSpaceOnline web portal for plan distribution and in-store collaboration. An add-on analytics module called Store Insights provides enhanced performance reporting. The platform integrates natively with NielsenIQ Spaceman for combined macro and micro space planning. Professional services include Matterport 3D surveys, data migration, and a structured Customer Success Programme for onboarding and training. StoreSpace® supports operations in over 20 languages and is used by retailers across grocery, fashion, pharmacy, and other sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• StoreSpaceOnline: The secure, cloud-accessible portal that provides retail teams access to store layouts, planograms, and communications via web-enabled devices.
• Store Insights
• StoreSpace® Revit Exchange

Products and services

• StoreSpace® AutoCAD-based retail floor planning software that enables macro space planning, category management, and store layout design within .dwg files, using intelligent block libraries, drag-and-drop editing, model store functionality, and heatmap performance analytics. Sold to enterprise retail planning functions in grocery, fashion, and pharmacy sectors globally.
• StoreSpaceOnline Cloud-accessible web portal that distributes store layouts, planograms, and communications to retail teams across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, supporting two-way communication between head office planners and in-store teams for feedback, acknowledgements, and photo-compliance verification. Sold to enterprise retail customers alongside the core StoreSpace software.
• Store Insights Analytics module providing enhanced category performance analytics, adjacency performance tracking, heat maps, and detailed reporting to complement the core StoreSpace planning functionality. Sold as a separate module with its own product page.
• Matterport Surveys Professional 3D building survey service using Matterport technology to create interactive digital twins of retail stores, integrating virtual workspaces into the StoreSpace portal for remote store design, refit project management, and as-built records of renovation decisions. Conducted by sister company CADS Surveys.
• Customer Success Programme Structured onboarding and support service spanning 6–12 weeks, covering project launch, discovery, data migration, training, and hypercare phases for new enterprise retail customers adopting StoreSpace.
• Data Migration Services Professional services for migrating floor plans from existing retail planning systems into StoreSpace, including support for AutoCAD files, PDFs, and spreadsheets. Sold alongside the core software to enterprise customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Equipment call-off reporting reduced from 4 hours manual counting to instantaneous automated reports
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NielsenIQ (NIQ)coreTechnology or IntegrationNielsenIQ Connected Partner status enables integration between StoreSpace macro space planning and NIQ Spaceman planogram software. This integration allows drag-and-drop of planograms onto StoreSpace fixtures, creating a single interactive store plan. Jonas Parmhed, Nordic Lead for Nielsen IQ, describes the integration as enabling seamless flow of data from floor planning through to replenishment.
• CADS SurveysminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSister company CADS Surveys conducts Matterport 3D building scans for StoreSpace clients. Surveys are GDPR-compliant with automatic face blurring for privacy protection. Deliver as-built surveys that provide lasting records of renovation decisions.
• Prosper Design and Architectural PracticeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Prosper Design and Architectural Practice on the Primark Guru project to create architectural specification and standards portal using Elecosoft IconSystem portal, linked to StoreSpace for comprehensive store planning.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• ToolsGroup: Retail planning vendor with space and assortment optimisation capabilities, increasingly competing for the same mid-market and European grocery customers as StoreSpace.
• Antuit.ai (o9 Solutions): AI-driven retail planning platform with assortment and space capabilities; emerging challenger in the same space-planning category, often pitched to the same retail CIOs as StoreSpace.
• Slimstock: European retail planning vendor with space and inventory optimisation, particularly strong in grocery — directly competitive with StoreSpace in the same European mid-market.

Broad incumbents

• Blue Yonder (formerly JDA): Large incumbent retail and supply chain planning platform with category management and space planning modules serving global grocery and fashion retailers — directly overlapping with StoreSpace's buyer personas.
• RELEX Solutions: Unified retail and supply chain platform with space and assortment planning modules for grocery and pharmacy. Targets many of the same large European retail chains as StoreSpace.
• SAP (Retail / CAR): SAP's retail planning modules are sold to large multi-format retailers (including some StoreSpace customers) and represent a broader-suite alternative to StoreSpace's specialised macro-space approach.
• Symphony RetailAI: Enterprise retail planning suite covering assortment, space, category and supply chain. It competes with StoreSpace at the space-planning layer while also offering much broader retail AI capabilities.
• Kantar (Retail & Insights): Major retail insights and analytics provider used by many of the same global brands; while not a direct CAD tool, it competes for the broader retail-space decision-making budget.
• Oracle Retail: Oracle's retail planning and category management suite competes for the same enterprise retail IT budget, particularly with multi-format and grocery customers.

Direct peers

• NielsenIQ (Spaceman / Spacemap): Spaceman is the dominant planogram and micro-space planning tool used by the same grocery, fashion, and pharmacy retailers as StoreSpace. It is both a core integration partner and a direct competitor for space-planning wallet share.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/retail-storespace

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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