Category Archives: R247 News

LK Bennett select Origin from Retail247 as their PIM Platform

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Zoe Donovan, Digital Director, L.K. Bennett, commented “It was important that we selected an organisation that had experienced retail team and who understand our product data needs. Retail247 have an established PIM solution enabling us to repurpose our product data for multiple trading channels.” Origin will be deployed as a PIM solution with an initial[…]

Click and miss out – why technology partners are great for retailers

There is inspiration to find in every situation whether it’s good, bad, or indifferent and if you can’t see it, then you aren’t looking hard enough. This is true and probably underpins the paradigm ‘live everyday to the full’.  But in reality, how many times have you wished that you could use technology to fast-forward[…]

What Generation Z expects from Retail

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Retail before technology? Never heard of it! As a relatively new entrant to the world of retail technology, I understand and realise that the past shapes the future immeasurably. However, I honestly can’t remember a time before click and collect, Amazon Prime and online-only retailers. To give you some context, I was born in January[…]

Retail247 – The Early Days Part 2

Another retail innovation adventure in the mid to late 90s was again during my Debenhams tenure. “We need a Wedding List service; John Lewis has got one” was pretty much the spec for this retail project. I was by now acting as budget holder, PM, BA and Solution Designer combined, but this time had the[…]

Reiss extend their use of Origin (PIM) to deliver comprehensive Price Change Management

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Origin is our Product Information Platform (PIM) and addresses your product data needs end to end. From product creation to enrichment, digital asset management and data syndication, Origin is the complete product data solution. Origin provides consistent and visible pricing control across multiple channels, zones, countries and currencies. With Origin you can define price changes[…]

How my Retail experience has played a part in my approach as a Consultant

Who Retail247 Are At Retail247 I like to believe we pride ourselves on being Retail and IT specialists, with everyone in our team having either a retail background, coming from IT or both! Having spent 10 years working on the shop floor at Jaeger, and 5 years as an IT Business Analyst, I firmly sit[…]

Retail247 – The Early Days

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As I look back on my formative career and the moments that contributed to the approach we take at Retail247, I’m reminded of the development project we did for the first automated sales forecasting tool, WSSI, at Debenhams. This was in the early to mid-nineties. For our younger readers I’d like to point out that[…]

Retail247 extends a warm welcome to new starter, Rebecca Malia

Retail247 is incredibly pleased to announce the appointment of Rebecca Malia as Head of Business Development. Starting her journey at her family’s business, Rebecca has lived and breathed retail for as long as she can remember. After spending some time in advertising, she naturally came back into Retail with her own card and gift store,[…]

Introducing Ellie Mitchell – our new Business Consultant

Retail247 is delighted to welcome Ellie Mitchell, who joins the team as a Business Consultant. With over a decade of experience in retail and ecommerce, Ellie will focus on the functional roadmap of our Product Information Management solution, Origin. Origin delivers a robust and scalable single view of product data to enable modern retailing –[…]

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