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Start pampering your guests before they’ve even checked in

As experts in hotel parking management, we know how crucial first impressions are. Parking is an essential part of the hotel guest journey - the first and last touchpoint. Our goal is to make it easy, seamless, and forgettable for guests, while helping hotel owners get maximum value from their car park assets. When guests arrive, they should feel excited and welcomed, not stressed by finding a space, parking, or making a payment. Likewise, departures should leave a positive final impression, not frustration. We help hotels put customers first by making parking simple, smooth, and connected. We’ll be at the […]

100 New Sites in H1 Underscore GroupNexus’ Position as a Leading Parking Management Provider

GroupNexus is celebrating a strong start to 2025, having secured 100 new sites in the first half of the year across a diverse and expanding portfolio. The growth spans retail, NHS estates, leisure, hotels, and increasingly, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) - a new and fast-developing sector for the company. This continued momentum reflects both the strength of GroupNexus’ long-term client relationships and the growing demand for its innovative, data-led parking and estate management solutions. “Our ability to scale within existing client portfolios while also entering new sectors like AONBs is a testament to the adaptability of our products […]

Reimagining Urban Spaces

Reimagining Urban Spaces: Smarter Parking, Smarter Cities Urban environments are transforming at an unprecedented pace, driven by technology that enhances energy efficiency, public safety, digital connectivity, and overall quality of life. But as cities become smarter, how can landlords and managing agents harness these advancements to maximise value? And how does something as fundamental as mobility and parking fit into the vision of a truly smart city? Beyond the Hype: Defining the Smart City Opportunity A smart city isn’t just a concept - it’s a practical, data-driven approach to improving the efficiency, sustainability, and desirability of urban assets.For landlords and […]

Yellow car, no return

Yellow Cars: A Bright Spot in Visitor Insights Ever played the Yellow Car Game on road trips? A simple yet addictive game: spot a yellow car, call it out, and score points. At GroupNexus, we combine ANPR data with vehicle attributes to deliver visitor insights, and while vehicle colour isn’t usually a key metric, yellow cars are a fun exception. Yellow Cars: Rare but Iconic In the UK, yellow cars are exceptionally rare - just 0.5% of new cars registered in 2023 were yellow. This rarity makes them a natural fit for the game, offering drivers a challenge. Regionally, we’ve […]

Transform Underutilised Parking Spaces

Much like the space inside retail parks and shopping centres, the space within car parks should be used to maximum effect. When we manage a car park site, we look at every possible way to enhance the visitor experience as well as the revenue that can be generated from that site. We look at the data and if there are areas that are underutilised, on a temporary or permanent basis - then we work with our roster of amazing partners to find alternative uses for those spaces that can drive both footfall to the location, as well as additional revenue. […]

How Your Car Park Can Earn You More

5 Secrets Every Owner Should Know Many car park owners overlook simple strategies that can unlock additional revenue streams. Whether you're managing a small site or a portfolio of multi-story facilities, tapping into these opportunities can significantly increase your income. 1. Use deep data to understand visitor patterns and identify opportunities In today’s digital age, data is king. By leveraging parking data and analytics, you can gain insights into how customers are using your site/s. Are there peak times when demand is highest? Do you notice certain days or hours when the site, or parts of it, are […]

Retail Landlords & Agents are Harnessing Parking & Mobile Data to Boost Footfall

In today’s competitive retail landscape, understanding visitor demographics is essential for enhancing customer loyalty and increasing overall footfall. Mobile data provides powerful insights into the key demographics of your visitors such as age, gender, income, and catchment area, while parking (ANPR) data offers valuable information on visitor behaviour, including frequency of visits, duration of stay and detailed vehicle information - such as make, model, fuel type, and insurance group. By providing our clients with integrated insights from Mobile Phone and ANPR data, they and their retailers can achieve a deeper, more nuanced understanding of their customer base than ever before. […]

Lord Ian Austin Joins GroupNexus

Lord Ian Austin of Dudley Joins GroupNexus As Non-Executive Director GroupNexus strengthens its board and senior management team, with a focus on technology-driven future growth GroupNexus, a leading provider of car parking, facilities management and technology solutions, announced that Lord Ian Austin of Dudley has joined the business as a Non-Executive Director. He will sit as an active member of the board helping guide the future growth of the business across a number of sectors. Ian is currently an active member of the House of Lords, a Non-Executive Director for Homes England amongst other journalism and consultancy roles. Ian […]

Sustainable parking solutions

Data-focused ESG parking solutions Parking data can help you offset your full emissions and effectively plan your EV strategy Every month our Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras read 30 million Number Plates. This data is further enhanced with Vehicle and demographic data that provide insights into both parking and customer behaviour. This data can reveal the true take-up of EVs on your site and allow you to offset the carbon emissions from vehicles. Parking data can help you understand your true Carbon Emissions: Our data enables our clients to understand the carbon footprint of vehicles visiting their sites. Utilising mobile phone data to understand the average […]

Announcing our new Chief Technology Officer

We are delighted to welcome Kulvinder Maingi, who joins the business as Chief Technology Officer. As a seasoned technology executive with leadership roles in several successful organisations, Kulvinder brings a wealth of experience in technical innovation, strategic planning, and product strategy. With over 20 years of experience, he has expertise in leading cross-functional teams, building strong relationships, and developing strategic plans. His diverse background spans industries such as transport, healthtech, edtech, fintech, and retail. Kulvinder has built a strong track record of driving technical innovation and business growth internationally. With his robust knowledge of SaaS delivery, mobile app development, strategic planning, […]

Announcing our new Chief Financial Officer

We are delighted to welcome Ashleigh Lewis, who joins the business as Chief Financial Officer. Ashleigh spent 20 years of her career with Moto, the largest UK Motorway Service Area operator, holding various board level positions including Finance Director, Strategy Director, Retail Director and Commercial Director. Delivering impressive returns to multiple blue-chip and private equity investors. Ashleigh is proud to have played a part in transforming the Motorway Service Area industry, introducing high street brands such as M&S Simply Food, Costa Coffee, Greggs and WHSmith. Prior to joining us, Ashleigh was Chief Financial Officer of the Thurlow Nunn Group, a […]

Planning your EV strategy?

Our Data reveals the true take up of EVs and the value of installing Ultra Rapid Chargers Data is at the heart of our business Every month our Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras read 30 million Number Plates. This data is further enhanced with Vehicle and demographic data that provide insights into both parking and customer behaviour. We use this data to provide our clients with real-time updates as well as bespoke reports. When we looked back at the 2022 data across our 1,200 sites, we found some interesting market trends. EV usage is increasing, but how quickly? Our clients often ask us how many EV […]

Our 2022 ESG Achievements

GroupNexus environmental achievements: This year we have made strong commitments and progress towards achieving our ESG targets. 1) Carbon offsetting: The road to becoming carbon neutral by 2026 GroupNexus have made a commitment to reduce our CO2 emissions, and offset emissions in areas where it is not possible for them to be completely reduced. With the aim of becoming carbon neutral by the fifth year of the plan, 2026. In year 1, we have successfully offset 253 tonnes of CO2 emissions. We are currently working ahead of plan. 2) Electric FM: Thurrock Retail Park became our first FM site […]

GroupNexus launches NexusPay Payment App

GroupNexus Launches NexusPay Payment App It might surprise you to hear that we're focused on making the parking experience as forgettable as possible. We take a customer-centric approach and that means making the parking process quick, easy and in turn...forgettable. One of our core strengths is looking at our Clients' problems, the existing solutions available, and then adding value by enhancing the user journey and adding additional features to better meet the needs of their Customers. This is exactly what we've done with our new payment app, NexusPay. NexusPay contains a host of unique features such as vehicle and […]

4 key steps to safely reopen our sites

How we're supporting our clients as they prepare to re-open We're busy implementing the following measures in order to allow visitors to park safely once lockdown restrictions are lifted. Contactless payment options We’re working with our Clients to ensure that contactless payment options are available across all sites. Pay-by-phone/app and on-line payments allow visitors to pay for parking up to midnight of the day they visit. This alleviates the need to touch high contact equipment, stand in close proximity to others while making parking payments and removes the pressure to organise payment while on-site. We’re working to bring drivers closer […]

Supporting NHS Staff during Covid19

Since the beginning of the lockdown in March, we have ensured that NHS Staff could park in any of our 1,200 sites for free. This included any car park with a GroupNexus, CP Plus or Highview sign. As more shops begin to reopen, car park spaces will come under more pressure and some landowners have now asked us to increase the level of protection and preservation of these spaces for their customers. With that in mind, this policy will now end on 15th June 2020. If you still need local parking: If you have been parking in one of our […]

Revo 2019: 6 concepts from the exhibition floor

Read the full article here. Originally published at: https://placetech.net/analysis/revo-2019-6-concepts-from-the-exhibition-floor/ Holographic billboards, customer banking analytics, and mobile monitoring of maintenance staff are all being demonstrated at this year’s annual retail property conference, under way in Liverpool. PlaceTech took a walk around its exhibition floor to see the technology and products on display. Group Nexus Car park monitoring software seems to be the hot topic at this year’s Revo, with several stands dedicated to offering solutions and products to create data streams for retailers and occupiers. Group Nexus uses cameras to monitor cars and collect data to better inform the retailer or the […]

Five stand-out learnings from our company rebrand

Following the merger of our two complimentary businesses, we decided that a new brand would be the best way to portray our enhanced proposition of a truly end-to-end and future-focused offering. CP Plus (with 30 years of parking management and FM expertise) and Ranger Services (specialising in cutting-edge parking technology) enjoyed a strong “client-supplier” relationship. In 2015, CP Plus acquired a controlling stake in Ranger, taking the relationship to the next level. Over the next few years the infrastructure of the two companies, the nature of the relationship and the demands of the market shifted to allow the final phase […]

CP Plus and Ranger Services have merged to become GroupNexus

GroupNexus is a powerful new force in the parking industry. Bringing together top talent, technology and expertise from two of the biggest names in the sector – CP Plus and Ranger Services – to deliver pioneering parking products for clients and motorists. CP Plus and Ranger Services have merged to become GroupNexus, providing market-leading products and services with a clear mission: to deliver cutting-edge technology that provides landowners with the insight to better serve their customers and to build stronger customer connections. GroupNexus was born from an ambition to develop a different approach to parking and linked services. Ranger has […]