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Francesca’s Holdings and Poq to launch mobile shopping app

Francesca’s Holdings Corporation and application commerce company Poq have announced their collaborative plans to develop the first mobile app of American retailer Francesca’s. The app, which is scheduled to launch for iOS this summer, with Android to follow later this year, will enhance customer experience, as well as include a new digital...

Retail

Cotton Traders to launch consumer apps

British casual wear retailer Cotton Trader is launching its first shopping apps in 2020 to “meet consumer demand for mobile”, after signing a partnership with app-commerce platform Poq. The move into apps is part of Cotton Trader’s latest growth strategy to reposition the brand and to attract a younger consumer. To achieve this it is planning an...

Retail

Missguided enhances payment options

Online retailer Missguided has teamed up with payments provider Klarna, SaaS platform Poq and online payment platform Stripe to enhance the way its customers pay for shopping in its app. The reform to the app means that consumers shopping via the Missguided app will receive a “tailored and seamless journey” including ordering items and paying...

Fashion

In The Style launches new app

Fast fashion e-tailer In The Style has launched a new iOS shopping app as it looks to capitalise on a period of “impressive growth”. In The Style was launched in 2013 targeting 16 to 24-year-old women and has achieved strong growth through combining fast fashion, social media and celebrity trends to launch a retail website, largely via social...

BusinessFeatured

App developer Poq raises 4 million dollars in funding

Shopping app developer Poq, which works with a number of leading retailers including Missguided, House of Fraser and Liberty, has raised 4 million dollars in a Series A funding round led by venture and growth investor Beringea, with additional funding from existing investors Seedcamp and Venrex. Poq which was founded in 2011, coined the term “...