Who we are
The Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA) is a member-supported non-profit research centre, located at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. The CSCA studies location-based trends in the consumer service sector and collects and reports on a broad array of location data sets. The Centre facilitates discussion of emerging industry issues and the exchange of ideas while promoting research, innovation, education and debate. The Centre is supported by private and public sector members and works with a number of industry partners.
Going Global: Foreign Retail Chains In Canada
By Dr. Tony Hernandez and Matthew Emmons
Retailing is an increasingly global business. It has been estimated by the CSCA that in 2017 approaching 43.6% of the retail sales in Canada were generated by retailers head-quartered outside of Canada. For many years, foreign...
Shopping Centre Data (SCD)
A national database that provides a comprehensive current annual view of Shopping Centres (SCD) across Canada in a spatial format that can be used within a wide range of business applications, including:
- Calculate shopping centre square footage by market
- Calculate year over year change in square footage by market
- Populate...
CSCA Base Metrics Package - Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
The GTA Base Metrics package provides you with quick reference summary statistics and cross-tabs from the most recent release of the GTA Store Database. The CSCA's location-based GTA store data is combined with Environics Analytics' population and household income demographics (DemoStats) at various levels of geography (region and municipality) to...
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