Featuring Jigsaw, Oh Polly, and New Balance: RTIH’s biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn right now
We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. These are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Voyado, Packfleet, Sook, bodo, RELEX Solutions, 3D Cloud by Marxent, and Coalescent Mobile Robotics.
Jigsaw selects Voyado retail technology for personalisation, loyalty and sustainability push
Jigsaw has announced Voyado as its new solution for customer loyalty and marketing automation.
The tie up is Sweden-based Voyado’s first UK customer win.
"We've made great progress with increasingly personalised marketing that reflects the unique relationship we have with our customers. We're excited to bring Voyado's impressive technology onboard to take us to the next level by creating truly exceptional experiences online and in-store," says Nicole Mason, Marketing Director at Jigsaw.
Women's fashion retailer Oh Polly teams with Packfleet to provide carbon free deliveries
Oh Polly has partnered with Packfleet to provide London-based shoppers with carbon free fashion deliveries.
Aided by all electric courier Packfleet’s live map tracking, customers can follow their parcel every step of the journey.
On delivery day, they will have the option to change everything about their shipment – including the time their parcel arrives, the address it arrives at and even whether drivers ring the doorbell.
The deal will see Packfleet handle all of Oh Polly’s orders within the M25, with occasion wear, activewear and swimwear being hand-delivered by the former’s drivers.
PropTech startup Sook announces appointment of Lysa Campbell as Chief Operating Officer
Sook has appointed Lysa Campbell to the position of Chief Operating Officer as it looks to increase its footprint in the UK and internationally.
The firm turns empty shops into adaptive, pop-up spaces, with nine locations in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Southampton and Edinburgh.
These are used for short-term retail, brand activations and pop-ups and living adverts deploying on its shopfront digital screens. Its client base includes Uber, Jägermeister, Vodafone and TikTok.
Campbell’s CV includes founding and selling an agency in the field marketing space, and leading Retail Marketing Group as CEO, pivoting the original proposition from a UK physical in-store focus to global digital capability.
Alongside this, she launched the sister agency, Retail Storey, to maximise this opportunity, having invested and designed an in-house social commerce tech capability.
She has since founded a new agency, She Makes a Difference, to support other SME founders and senior executives.
New Balance taps Volumental 3D foot scanner solution for concept store launch in Singapore
New Balance recently opened a concept store in Singapore, featuring a Volumental 3D foot scanner in the fitting area.
Since partnering with Volumental in 2017, the retailer says that it has scanned the feet of more than one million shoppers worldwide.
The scan, which takes less than five seconds, provides employees with detailed information about a customer’s feet, helping them find a shoe that’s sure to fit.
Volumental claims that the solution helps brands and retailers to: reduce return rates by 18%; increase footwear sales by 20%; achieve email capture rates of 71%.
Coalescent Mobile Robotics raises seed funding and looks to scale in European markets
Coalescent Mobile Robotics, a Denmark-based provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for the retail industry, has closed a €2 million seed funding round with Superangel and EIFO as lead investors.
The cash will be used to develop the next generation of AMRs and expand into European markets.
"We are very excited to be making our first deal in Denmark, given our focus on the Nordics and DeepTech,” says Superangel Venture Partner Kart Siilats.
“We were impressed by seeing the Coalescent Mobile Robotics in action in a Bilka store, how friendly and welcoming both the clients and Bilka employees were towards them and how intuitive and comprehensive the fleet management software is.”
“We think Coalescent Mobile Robotics has demonstrated a great partnership with Bilka and will go on to ease the heavy physical labour in many other stores across the globe, the same way we've seen robots in our other portfolio companies like Starship and Rocsys help their clients.”
The Whisky Shop taps Recite Me accessibility and language tools for retailer’s online store
The Whisky Shop has launched Recite Me accessibility and language tools on its e-commerce store.
Visitors can now utilise a range of solutions to read and understand content in a way that best suits their needs.
Features include screen reading functionality, multiple reading aids, customisable styling options, and an on-demand live translation feature that offers over 100 languages, 65 of which are text-to-speech.
Alan Monaghan, Digital Marketing Manager at the Whisky Shop, comments: “We’re very excited to announce that we have installed the Recite Me accessibility assistive toolbar – allowing visitors to customise content so that they can read and understand it in ways that work best for them.”
“For example, through dyslexic friendly fonts, translations into over 100 languages, and screen readers for those with visual impairments.”
Daniel Rafaeli departs Amazon for Head of Partnerships role at sustainable deliveries startup bodo
Daniel Rafaeli has taken on the role of Head of Partnerships at bodo, a logistics platform for e-commerce brands that provides sustainable, same day and instant deliveries across London.
In a LinkedIn post, bodo Co-founder Jack Green said: “Dan joins us to lead commercial partnerships in our growing community of over 60 brands. His involvement will allow me to focus my time on more important things such as LinkedIn and complaining.”
Rafaeli was previously at Amazon, where as Vendor Manager he was responsible for developing commercial partnerships with brands working with the e-commerce giant’s R-commerce division.
Outdoor wear and accessories brand Sprayway boosts online visitors and orders using Patchworks BI
Outdoor brand Sprayway is using predictive analytics from Patchworks BI.
The company, which celebrates 50 years in business next year, found itself facing a major boom in the e-commerce industry and also more competition to engage those into outdoor activities like walking, hillwalking and hiking.
Added to this, the Covid-19 pandemic had accelerated consumer focus on brands with a strong online presence that delivered consistently great experiences in bricks and mortar stores.
Understanding the need for greater insight, Sprayway used Patchworks BI to make business decisions based on data to improve its marketing strategy, which saw total visitors to its website surge by 58%.
Patchworks’ insights have driven orders up almost a third over a 12 month period.
3D Cloud by Marxent preps immersive journey into world of 3D content creation and visualisation
3D Cloud by Marxent is inviting people to join it for a webinar providing a crash course on how 3D art is created with a focus on furniture and interiors.
In an online post, the US-based company says: “We'll discuss the life of a pixel and the creation of meshes, textures, materials, and shaders that feed into the different rendering engines available to create the final imagery.”
“We will explore the different types of rendering technology and concepts used in modern art pipelines and review some examples of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach relating to furniture production at scale. We'll end with best practices and things to keep in mind if considering your own 3D initiatives.”
SPAR International taps RELEX Solutions technology for ‘a more efficient and transparent supply chain’
RELEX Solutions has signed a preferred supplier agreement with SPAR International, whose network of independently owned and operated retailers and wholesalers work together in partnership under the SPAR brand. The network currently comprises 13,900 stores in 48 countries.
This covers forecasting and replenishment, pricing, promotion, space management (floor planning and planogramming), and workforce optimisation.
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