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Derek O’Carroll, CEO of Brightpearl investigates the highly competitive world of ecommerce. The behind the scenes battle going on between the two biggest ecommerce platforms in the US – Amazon and Shopify – could have significant implications for merchants. Amazon’s real customer is the end consumer – rather than the …

Tool and homeware supplier Helton Tool & Home has utilised Brightpearl’s retail operating system to improve its multichannel operations. Using Brightpearl’s Automation Engine and Inventory Planner Premium tool to streamline its retail operations, Helton Tool & Home can redirect their time towards innovation and growth. Its out-of-the-box, made-for-retail features include a …

Mark Hook, Global Director of brand, communications and PR at Brightpearl  looks at the evolutionary spin-off of Gen Z and how to appeal to this growing market segment. For the past decade, brands have scrambled to serve millennials, the first Internet-obsessed generation that forced retailers to rethink their online-selling strategies. Now, …

Derek O’Carroll, CEO of Brightpearl explores a trend that every retail business needs to get on board with – and fast – because in the digital neighbourhoods of the future, people will ‘show up’ to online stores as an event; not only to browse and buy goods, but also to …

In PCR’s November issue, focusing on Ecommerce and the future of digital payment, we have some great industry insight starting with our retail analysis with Brightpearl’s CEO, Derek O’Carroll, exploring a trend that every retail business needs to get on board with – and fast – Digital neighbourhoods are forming …

Brightpearl has acquired Inventory Planner, a demand planning tool that enables e-commerce retailers to forecast inventory and optimise stock. Inventory Planner will continue as a separate division of Brightpearl, with planned investment from Brightpearl to evolve and enhance the brand and expand its business. The combination of Inventory Planner and …

Majority of High Street retailers reject plans for mandatory Covid ‘Shopping Passports’, according to new survey * 58% of retailers reject idea of “Covid passports” for customers visiting shops * 80% of stores think mandatory vaccination passports would drive more people to shop online than in store * 79% claim …

Just 6% of British shoppers are planning to buy business suits in 2021, according to a new Brightpearl survey on how Covid will impact on spending. The survey points to a crisis in the luxury sector with a major switch away from ‘frivolous’ spending. Just 8% of shoppers had made …

Cloud business management solutions provider, Sage is entering a new significant partnership with Digital Operations Platform, Brightpearl with an approximate £17 million ($23m)  investment into the business. Lee Perkins, Chief Operations Officer at Sage, said: “As retail businesses from across the globe recover from the impact of Covid-19, trading online …

Brightpearl has been selected in help develop Shopify’s collectionof retail hardware. Shopify is now employing Brightpearl’s retailer-first digital operations platform to automate and support the fulfillment and distribution of new hardware to merchants who are starting or expanding to brick-and-mortar retail. This partnership will enable businesses to seamlessly buy Shopify’s …