M Ryan is an ecommerce consultant with twenty years experience working with retailers, consumer brand manufacturers and other consumer-facing businesses helping them to develop their ecommerce strategy, implement ecommerce technology and improve their ecommerce operations. He works extensively throughout US and Europe, with clients including global brands, large retailers and household names in consumer goods.
March 3rd, 2021. Sitecore, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced it has acquired CDP company Boxever and B2B ecommerce platform company Four51. This follows the announcement of a $1.2bn investment in Sitecore, albeit from an unknown source. Boxever, based on the banks…
Continue reading...March 3rd, 2021. VTEX, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced a new customer win - Blade HQ, a retailer of high-end LEO Combat, military and collectible folding knives. Mark Christensen, CEO of Blade HQ since May 2016 and 11 years with the…
Continue reading...March 2nd, 2021. Instacart has raised $265m from its existing investors at a $39bn valuation. This comes ahead of a widely expected, but as yet unannounced, IPO. Nick Giovanni, Instacart CFO, is quoted in the announcement as saying "grocery is the world's largest retail category…
Continue reading...February 26th, 2021. Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ: SFM) has announced its full year 2020 financial results, with annual sales up 15% to $6.5bn. Their ecommerce sales grew by 290% compared to 2019, to 11% of Q4 revenue, with 15% of those online sales now through…
Continue reading...February 26th, 2021. WYND, a member of our order management systems (OMS) shortlist, has appointed Jean Lecomte as General Manager. Lecomte, who has a Masters Degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, was previously leading digital systems at Carrefour (EPA: CA), the French…
Continue reading...February 24th, 2021. BigCommerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced its solution now enables its merchants to list products for sale on the Walmart marketplace. Its press release BigCommerce described one of its merchants, Vitabox, a seller of vitamins, personal care and…
Continue reading...Episerver Commerce Cloud is an ecommerce platform with customers including Benefit Cosmetics, New Era and fashion brand Filippa K. Episerver modestly describes its Commerce Cloud offering as "the most complete commerce suite for growing companies". This article examines this product in more depth. Episerver is…
Continue reading...eCommerce Order Management describes the processes by which an ecommerce business collates customer orders, routes them to sources of inventory, such as warehouses, suppliers and retail stores, and tracks and optimizes all of the steps required to deliver orders to customers. The application that is…
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