Tag Archives: Retail

PCR’s March gaming & esports roundtable with Toby Roberts and Mike Hart

Big strides are being made in the esports and gaming industries. We spoke with UK e-tailer of tech products’ BOX’s Marketing Manager, Mike Hart and Toby Roberts, co-owner of Wired2Fire, an independent retailer to find out more. Here’s what Mike Hart, BOX’s Marketing Manager and co-owner of Wired2Fire had to say. …

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PCR March issue Q&A with Rob Woolley, Commercial Director at BOX

Rob Woolley, Commercial Director at online technology store, BOX talks to Michelle Winny at PCR about its exponential business growth, spurring its move to bigger trading premises and what we can expect to see as this year’s top tech and gaming trends. BOX, a UK e-tailer of tech products, with …

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The Perfect Storm: When Financial Crime and Cyber Crime Meet

Martin Rehak CEO of Resistant examines the convergence of cybersecurity and financial crime, the risks it creates and why the use of AI-powered technologies offer the only scaling factor available to organisations focused on minimising one of today’s most alarming criminal trends. In recent years, financial crime has undergone its …

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OnBuy ranks in the FT1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022

 OnBuy has announced it has made the Financial Times 1000, securing spot 331. The online retailer reported a 479% increase in revenue growth between 2017 and 2020. This is important news for Bournemouth-based OnBuy following its successful 2021, seeing product listings hit over 36 million. OnBuy anticipates further growth in …

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Brother UK introduces two new mobile print range models

Brother UK has added two new models to its RuggedJet (RJ) mobile print range.  The new RJ-3230B and the RJ-3250WB are ideal for shelf labelling, price markdowns, click and collect through to quotes, estimates, and invoices and deliver print speeds of up to five inches-per-second, in a rugged, durable design. …

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Gen Z’s New Shopping Habits May Kill Off Unprepared Brands

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, …

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The Mountain of Festive Returns: Why AI and Robotics is the way forward

James Newman, Senior Accounts Executive, GreyOrange discuses how AI and robotics technology can aid the returns process for retailers. Black Friday and Cyber Monday marked the beginning of the festive retail season which set off weeks of deals and discounts, continuing through to the January sales. Retailers offer huge discounts throughout December and January, in-store and online, while customers …

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PCR Feb issue Independent Retailer: Chillblast’s Ben Miles

Chillblast’s Director, Ben Miles tells Michelle Winny, Editor of PCR about its recent Tactus Group acquisition, its involvement with F1 and how the explosive growth of the PC gaming market is driving product demand. UK based Chillblast started out as a specialist importer of niche overclocking products; it has since …

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Brother UK partners with barcode software vendor, Teklynx

Brother UK has signed a new partnership deal with barcode software vendor, TEKLYNX. The new agreement has  enabled TEKLYNX’ software to become fully-native with Brother’s entire suite of thermal labelling solutions. The partnership covers the rugged, mobile RJ range through to the industrial-grade TJ models. Ged Cairns, head of category …

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Merkle Debuts App-Free In-Store and On-Delivery Contactless Shopping Products

Merkle has released its Scan & Know and UnboxIt products at CES. These are app-free in-store and on-delivery contactless shopping experiences and are the newest additions to Merkle’s ShopNXT collection of retail innovation products. ​ Val Vacante, director of strategy, product innovation at Merkle said: “Creating experiences that are simple, safe, and …

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