EstarOnline attended and exhibited at the inaugural Online Retailer NZ conference on the 29^th of October in Auckland. There were some great learnings and inspiration, with central themes discussing domestic vs international retail growth, the path to omni-channel, the opportunity in China via sites like Tmall , disruptive business models and how using analytics to make incremental improvements leads to big results.

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Buxton, who joined as the new CEO of EstarOnline last week.

Andrew brings over 25 years’ experience in retail and multi-channel environments gained with Australasian, UK and Asian retailers, including start-ups and major global/local brands.   Andrew joins from The Warehouse Group where he has held a range of retail leadership, supply chain and IT roles.

Research and development is a key part of providing constantly improving solutions to our clients and partners. As part of our programme, we are aiming to provide greater insight into to work being undertaken in the R&D group , and the outcomes of this. In this article, we cover the topic of caching and the result of a recent project to improve the performance characteristics of this.