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Richard Horwell, founder of Brand Relations shares his tips for taking that family recipe from kitchen stove to supermarket shelf Business ideas can form in a variety of places. Some of the best begin in a kitchen. Whether a recipe has been handed down through generations, or adapted from dishes experienced while travelling, or created from scratch (by design or by accident), it’s likely ...
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The lowdown on Haru, the Belfast-based startup that is on a mission to help charities and sustainable brands sell online Charity shops are great places for people to get good quality second-hand products and support a charity at the same time. They are good places to take things that you no longer want or need, but are in too good condition to throw away, reducing the amount of waste ending up ...
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With her high street store closed, some insights from one independent retailer on how adapting her business to an online platform has helped Amanda Alexander is founder of Giddy Goat Toys in Didsbury on the outskirts of Manchester. Until the pandemic forced her to shut her doors the small independent business was ticking over nicely. But the pandemic changed all that. The majority of Amanda&r...
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LEVELUP 2021 is a two day blended digital and in-person event looking at innovation and inspiration from around the world, exploring how people, both locally and internationally, have created opportunity, economic growth and initiated real change. Even before the pandemic, the world was evolving and technological innovations were happening at a significant pace. However, Covid 19 has ...
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  Joris Kroese, CEO and Founder of Hatch shares his thoughts and insights into the key technology trends to expect in the e-commerce sector in the year ahead While the Covid-19 pandemic was pivotal for e-commerce, we’re only scratching the surface of the impact that it will have for businesses in the next decade, writes Joris Kroese, CEO and Founder of Hatch. In 2020, we witnessed a ...
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KodyPay is a York-based fintech startup that's on a mission to streamline the checkout experience and make it digital and contactless In this age of smartphones, the cloud, decreased patience for waiting, and interconnectivity, it can be frustrating when we find ourselves unable to perform a certain action quickly and simply - something like paying for a thing. One of our own Startacus team has...
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Andy Bojko, Director at Hidepark Leather, outlines his top tips on how businesses can successfully implement small changes to their website to succeed over the next year With many retailers hit hard this year by the pandemic, businesses are turning to ecommerce to regain lost sales in 2021 as their customers move online to conduct their shopping. The events of 2020 have caused a significant sh...
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Joko is a Paris-based fintech startup that is aiming to disrupt how consumers have their spending rewarded by retailers Getting rewarded for buying things is nice. You take your bag of new products and you say, ‘Here is my money’, and they say, ‘Thank you, please take some money for your money’, and...actually getting rewarded for buying things is a little odd. Why not d...
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We take a look at Qudini, the London-based startup that's created innovative solutions for retailers to deliver an excellent customer experience and manage their queues both in-store and virtually... In July, we wrote about Glug, a startup helping the hospitality sector stay afloat by bringing virtual ordering and payment to customers to cut down on the amount of physical interaction with staff a...
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Retail tech innovation in a world still dealing with COVID-19, thanks to Ksubaka With the easing of lockdown restrictions, it is easy to fool ourselves into thinking that COVID-19 is no longer a problem. Even while our logical minds tell us that it hasn’t magically vanished, being allowed to go shopping, visit family, and even sit in a pub again has the dangerous effect of allowing us ...
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