Intelligence Index
Company Directory
253 companies and institutions featured in Rack & Reason coverage.
Retailer
- ABOUT YOU Hamburg-based European online fashion retailer with 45 million monthly active users, also operating SCAYLE, a B2B commerce platform sold to other retailers. 2 articles
- Albertsons Albertsons Companies is one of the largest U. 1 article
- Anthropologie Anthropologie is a global lifestyle specialty retailer founded in 1992 and part of URBN (Urban Outfitters, Inc. 1 article
- ASOS UK-headquartered global online fashion retailer targeting 20-somethings, with operations across Europe, the US, and Australia. 2 articles
- Best Buy Best Buy is the leading U. 1 article
- Boozt Malmö-based Nordic online department store selling fashion and lifestyle, with 3. 1 article
- Burlington Stores Burlington Stores, Inc. 1 article
- Cia. Hering Cia. 1 article
- Costco Costco Wholesale is a membership-based warehouse club retailer founded in 1983 and headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, operating over 800 locations in 14 countries. 1 article
- CVS Health CVS Health is an American healthcare company headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, operating CVS Pharmacy (the largest US pharmacy chain by prescription volume), CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits management, and Aetna health insurance. 1 article
- David's Bridal David's Bridal is a US bridal retail chain founded in 1950 that claims reach to roughly 90% of American brides; it has repositioned itself as a technology and media platform, operating AI-powered wedding planning tools and a retail media network targeting engaged consumers. 2 articles
- Debenhams Group Debenhams Group (formerly Boohoo Group, rebranded March 2025) is a British online retail group operating the heritage Debenhams brand as an open marketplace of 3,000+ brands across fashion, beauty, and homeware. 1 article
- Dollar General Dollar General is a US discount retailer operating over 20,000 stores, primarily serving rural and suburban communities with everyday essentials at low prices. 1 article
- Ellos Group Borås-based Nordic e-commerce group operating fashion and home furnishing brands Ellos, Jotex, and Homeroom across the Nordic region and selected European markets, with approximately 600 employees and SEK 3. 1 article
- Fast Retailing Fast Retailing is a Japanese apparel retail holding company operating UNIQLO, GU, and six other brands through a vertically integrated SPA model, making it one of the world's largest apparel groups by revenue. 1 article
- Foot Locker Foot Locker, Inc. 1 article
- Gap Inc. American multinational apparel retailer operating Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta, with a large direct-to-consumer online business. 2 articles
- Grupo SBF (Centauro) Grupo SBF is the largest sports retail ecosystem in Latin America, best known for its Centauro chain — the continent's largest multi-brand sports retailer — alongside the official Nike distribution business Fisia and several sports content and entertainment ventures. 1 article
- Gyet (Mac-House) Gyet Co. 1 article
- Hibbett Hibbett, Inc. 1 article
- Inditex Inditex is the world's largest fashion retail group, headquartered in Arteixo, Spain, operating over 5,800 stores across 213 markets under seven brands including Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, and Bershka. 2 articles
- J.Crew J. 1 article
- John Lewis Partnership John Lewis Partnership is the UK's largest employee-owned retailer, encompassing John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, with online accounting for 60% of sales. 4 articles
- Kroger Kroger is America's largest supermarket chain by revenue, founded in 1883 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, operating nearly 2,800 stores under two dozen grocery banners across 35 states. 1 article
- Lookfantastic Lookfantastic is one of the UK's top five online beauty retailers, owned by THG and offering skincare, haircare, and cosmetics from premium brands. 1 article
- Magazine Luiza Magazine Luiza (Magalu) is Brazil's largest omnichannel retailer, founded in 1957, operating 1,250+ stores and a major digital marketplace with over 50 million monthly active users. 1 article
- Marks & Spencer British multinational retailer selling clothing, food, and home products across hundreds of UK stores and growing digital channels. 1 article
- Myntra Myntra is India's leading fashion e-commerce platform, founded in 2007 and owned by Walmart via Flipkart, serving nearly 200 million annual active users with a catalogue of over four million styles. 2 articles
- Mytheresa Mytheresa is a Munich-based luxury fashion e-commerce retailer founded in 1987, now the flagship brand of the LuxExperience group alongside Net-A-Porter and Mr Porter. 1 article
- New Look UK-founded value fashion retailer with 400+ stores in the UK and Ireland and 8,500+ employees, operating womenswear, menswear, and teen clothing across high street and online channels. 1 article
- Olive Young CJ Olive Young is South Korea's leading health and beauty retail chain, founded in 1999 and operating over 1,300 stores plus a global e-commerce platform; it is expanding to the US with its first physical store in Pasadena (opening 2026) and announced a Sephora in-store partnership in January 2026. 1 article
- OTTO OTTO is Germany's largest online retailer for fashion and lifestyle, part of the Hamburg-based Otto Group. 1 article
- Pact Pact (wearpact. 1 article
- Rally House Rally House is a US specialty retail chain founded in 1989 and headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, operating nearly 300 stores across 22 states selling licensed apparel, gifts, and home décor for NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, and NCAA teams. 1 article
- Revolve Next-generation fashion e-tailer targeting Millennials and Gen Z, founded 2003 and publicly traded (NYSE: RVLV), reporting $1. 1 article
- Saks Global Saks Global is a U. 1 article
- Selfridges Selfridges is a British luxury department store founded in 1909, operating four UK flagships in London, Birmingham, and Manchester, consistently ranked among the world's best department stores and known for its experiential retail model and dense concession floor economics. 1 article
- Sephora Global prestige beauty retailer operating its own loyalty ecosystem at scale, which has moved to embed itself directly inside ChatGPT as its primary AI commerce channel. 3 articles
- Stitch Fix Stitch Fix is a San Francisco-based online personal styling service, founded in 2011, that built its entire business model around AI-driven style recommendations layered with human stylist judgment. 1 article
- Tailored Brands Tailored Brands is a Houston-based menswear retail holding company operating Men's Wearhouse, Jos. 1 article
- Target Target Corporation is an American general merchandise retailer, the eighth-largest in the US, operating stores in all 50 states and owning subsidiaries including Shipt (same-day delivery) and Roundel (retail media network). 2 articles
- Tecovas Tecovas is an Austin-based direct-to-consumer western boot, apparel, and accessories retailer founded in 2015, selling across e-commerce and a growing network of physical stores. 1 article
- The Very Group UK-based online retailer and financial services provider operating Very. 1 article
- Urban Outfitters Urban Outfitters is a Philadelphia-based lifestyle and apparel retailer founded in 1970, targeting young adults with fashion, accessories, beauty, and homewares across 200+ stores globally; it operates as part of the URBN portfolio alongside Anthropologie, Free People, and Nuuly. 1 article
- Walmart Walmart is a global omnichannel retailer deploying AI at scale; its Sparky-via-ChatGPT architecture, which routes discovery through an external platform while keeping checkout on Walmart. 5 articles
- Zalando Europe's largest online fashion and lifestyle platform, headquartered in Berlin, selling across 25+ markets with over 50 million active customers. 4 articles
Brand
- Alexander McQueen Alexander McQueen is a British luxury fashion house founded in 1992 and owned by Kering since 2001, known for avant-garde craftsmanship and subversive design. 1 article
- Allbirds (NewBird AI) Allbirds is a New Zealand-founded, Nasdaq-listed sustainable footwear brand (ticker: BIRD) that went public in 2021 at a $4B valuation on its merino wool and eucalyptus-fiber sneaker line. 1 article
- American Exchange Group American Exchange Group (axnygroup. 1 article
- Amouage Amouage is an Omani ultra-luxury fragrance house founded in 1983 at the request of Sultan Qaboos bin Said and owned by the SABCO Group, manufacturing in Muscat and distributing globally through boutiques and prestige department stores; it is consistently ranked among the most expensive fragrance houses in the world. 1 article
- Aritzia Aritzia is a Canadian fashion brand operating 115+ boutiques across North America, pursuing aggressive US expansion underpinned by growing digital marketing investment. 2 articles
- Beiersdorf Beiersdorf AG is a German multinational skin and body care company founded in 1882, headquartered in Hamburg, best known for NIVEA across mass-market, Eucerin in dermocosmetics, and La Prairie in premium skin care. 1 article
- Brioni Brioni is an Italian luxury menswear house founded in Rome in 1945, specialising in bespoke and ready-to-wear suiting, leather goods, and accessories. 1 article
- Coca-Cola The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation founded in 1892, producing over 200 brands including Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite, and Fanta, sold in more than 200 countries. 1 article
- Cocokind Cocokind is a San Francisco-based clean skincare brand founded in 2015 by Priscilla Tsai, offering affordable, USDA-certified organic skincare with an emphasis on barrier health, transparency, and sustainability. 1 article
- Coty Coty Inc. 1 article
- Dolce & Gabbana Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, known for Mediterranean-inspired ready-to-wear, accessories, and a growing beauty division generating roughly €610M in annual revenue. 1 article
- Dolce Vita Dolce Vita is a New York-founded footwear brand (est. 1 article
- Dossier New York-based fragrance brand founded 2019 that sources scents from Grasse and sells "inspired by" versions of luxury perfumes at sub-$50 retail, achieving top-seller status at Walmart and expanding into Mexico through Walmart, Ulta, and Liverpool. 1 article
- Dr. Groot Dr. 1 article
- E.l.f. Beauty Accessible beauty brand that has made AI-mediated discovery the core of its growth strategy, restructuring product data for machine readability and targeting LLM recommendation surfaces. 1 article
- Escentric Molecules Escentric Molecules is a London-based niche fragrance brand founded by German perfumer Geza Schoen in 2006, built on the concept of isolating and showcasing individual aroma molecules as the hero of each product; its Molecule 01 (pure Iso E Super) pioneered the molecule-literate consumer segment that now drives discovery on platforms like Fragrantica. 1 article
- Essential Parfums Essential Parfums is a Paris-based niche fragrance house founded by Géraldine Archambault, positioning master perfumers as the face of each creation and sourcing high-quality, sustainably minded ingredients at accessible price points; it distributes through Nordstrom, Dillard's, and independent perfumeries across the US and Europe. 1 article
- EssilorLuxottica EssilorLuxottica is a French-Italian multinational formed by the 2018 merger of Essilor and Luxottica, the world's largest eyewear company owning Ray-Ban, Oakley, and dozens of licensed fashion frames. 1 article
- Estée Lauder The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. 1 article
- Ex Nihilo EX NIHILO is a Parisian niche perfume house founded in 2013 by Sylvie Loday, Olivier Royère, and Benoît Verdier, offering luxury personalised fragrances through flagship boutiques and prestige retailers including Harrods and Bergdorf Goodman; it received a minority investment from Eurazeo and is known for combining bespoke customisation technology with artisanal perfumery. 1 article
- Fenty Beauty Fenty Beauty is a cosmetics brand launched in 2017 by Rihanna in partnership with LVMH's Kendo Holdings, known for its inclusive shade range and direct consumer engagement approach. 1 article
- Forta Forta is a performance cosmetics brand co-founded in early 2026 by WNBA player Lexie Hull and investor Sarah Guller, launching with a setting spray formulated to withstand athletic activity. 1 article
- Ginori 1735 Ginori 1735 is an Italian luxury porcelain and tableware brand with origins dating to 1735, known for heritage craftsmanship in decorative and lifestyle objects. 1 article
- GU GU is the trend-led, lower-price brand within the Fast Retailing group, positioned as a more fashion-forward and price-accessible alternative to UNIQLO, operating primarily in Japan and expanding across Asia. 1 article
- Gucci Gucci is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in Florence in 1921, known for leather goods, ready-to-wear, and accessories. 1 article
- H&M Group H&M Group is a Swedish global fashion company with 4,700+ stores across 76 markets, operating brands including H&M, COS, & Other Stories, Arket, and Monki. 1 article
- Jo Malone London Jo Malone London is a British luxury fragrance and lifestyle brand founded in 1983, now owned by The Estée Lauder Companies and sold globally through boutiques, department stores, and e-commerce. 1 article
- Kering French luxury conglomerate owning Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, and others. 1 article
- L'Oréal Paris L'Oréal Paris is the consumer-flagship brand of the L'Oréal Group, the world's largest cosmetics company, known for mass-market beauty products across hair, skincare, and cosmetics sold in 150+ countries. 2 articles
- Lancôme Lancôme is a French luxury beauty brand founded in 1935 and owned by L'Oréal since 1964, offering skincare, makeup, and fragrance products globally. 1 article
- LG H&H LG H&H (LG Household & Health Care) is South Korea's second-largest cosmetics company, founded in 1947 and publicly listed in 2001, operating prestige beauty brands (The History of Whoo, O Hui, Dr. 1 article
- Li-Ning Li-Ning is a leading Chinese sportswear company founded in 1989 by Olympic gymnast Li Ning, producing footwear, apparel, and equipment across basketball, running, and badminton categories. 1 article
- Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1854 and part of the LVMH group, known globally for leather goods, ready-to-wear, and accessories; it operates some of the most expensive flagship retail spaces in the world. 1 article
- Lululemon Canadian athletic apparel brand with global retail and e-commerce operations. 1 article
- LVMH LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate, founded in 1987 and headquartered in Paris, comprising 75 Maisons across fashion, leather goods, perfumes, cosmetics, watches, and wines. 1 article
- Marc-Antoine Barrois Marc-Antoine Barrois is a French couture and niche fragrance house founded by designer Marc-Antoine Barrois in Paris, known for collaborating with perfumers including Quentin Bisch on architecturally structured fragrances that sit at the intersection of fashion and fine perfumery. 1 article
- MaryRuth's MaryRuth's (maryruthorganics. 1 article
- Mc JEANS MC Group Public Company Limited is a Thailand-based apparel manufacturer and retailer founded in 1975, best known for Mc JEANS, one of Thailand's top-selling denim brands. 1 article
- MCo Beauty Australian luxe-for-less beauty brand founded by Shelley Sullivan in 2016, valued at over $1B and acquired by DBG Health in 2025, selling vegan and cruelty-free products priced under $30 across Woolworths, Target, and Kroger. 1 article
- Mind Games Mind Games is a chess-inspired luxury fragrance brand launched in 2022 by Alex and Mariana Shalbaf under The Fragrance Group, retailing at $395 through luxury stockists including Selfridges. 1 article
- Moncler Moncler is an Italian luxury outerwear brand founded in 1952 in Grenoble and headquartered in Milan, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 2013; it operates across DTC boutiques and wholesale globally, with the Moncler Genius platform pairing the brand with rotating designers. 1 article
- Nike Nike is the world's largest athletic footwear and apparel company, distributing through direct-to-consumer digital channels, owned retail stores, and wholesale partners globally. 1 article
- NikeSkims NikeSkims is a women's activewear and fitness brand launched in 2025 as a partnership between Nike, Inc. 1 article
- Old Navy Old Navy is a value-priced American apparel and accessories brand owned by Gap Inc. 1 article
- Origins Origins is an American skincare brand founded in 1990 by Leonard Lauder and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies, built around naturally-derived ingredients and a long-standing environmental commitment. 1 article
- Pomellato Pomellato is an Italian luxury fine-jewellery brand founded in Milan in 1967, known for colourful, unconventional designs and over 60 global boutiques. 1 article
- Puma PUMA is one of the world's leading sports brands, designing, developing, and selling footwear, apparel, and accessories across more than 120 countries. 1 article
- Ralph Lauren American fashion brand and retailer spanning luxury, premium, and lifestyle segments with significant digital commerce operations. 1 article
- Reserva Reserva is a Brazilian men's fashion brand founded in 2004, now part of Azzas 2154 (the largest fashion company in Latin America following the Arezzo-Soma merger), operating 83 stores and known for its B Corp certification and social impact programmes. 1 article
- Rhode Rhode is a skincare and beauty brand founded by Hailey Bieber in 2022, built on a minimalist product line and creator-led brand identity with strong social media reach. 1 article
- Roller Rabbit Roller Rabbit is a Manhattan-based resort lifestyle brand founded in 2003, known for colorful hand-blocked prints across apparel, sleepwear, and home goods; it exited wholesale in 2022 to operate exclusively DTC and through its own boutiques. 1 article
- Saie Saie is a clean makeup brand founded by Laney Crowell, sold via omnichannel retail, and certified Leaping Bunny, Plastic Negative, and 1% for the Planet. 1 article
- Shark Beauty Shark Beauty is the beauty division of SharkNinja, producing premium hair care and skincare tools sold across major retail markets including the US, UK, and Europe. 1 article
- SMCP SMCP Group is a French accessible luxury fashion group founded in 2010, owning the Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot, and Fursac brands, with over 1,600 points of sale in 47 countries and approximately 6,500 employees. 1 article
- Snif Snif is a DTC fragrance brand founded in 2020 offering genderless, vegan, cruelty-free fine fragrances, expanding from online-only to over 1,350 Ulta Beauty locations. 1 article
- Sol de Janeiro Sol de Janeiro is a Brazilian-inspired American body care and fragrance brand founded in 2015, majority-owned by Groupe L'Occitane, known for viral scents and premium retail positioning. 1 article
- Steve Madden Steve Madden, Ltd. 1 article
- Stone Island Stone Island is an Italian menswear brand founded in 1982, specialising in technical outerwear and garment-dyeing innovation, headquartered in Ravarino, Emilia-Romagna; acquired by Moncler in 2020 for €1. 1 article
- Tapestry Tapestry is a global luxury fashion holding company housing brands including Coach and Kate Spade New York, generating over $7 billion in annual revenue. 1 article
- Thorne Thorne is a science-backed health and wellness supplement brand with over 40 years of history, operating as an omnichannel DTC business with roughly 7 million customers and a clinically grounded content corpus now cited by AI answer engines. 1 article
- Topshop Topshop is a British fashion brand revived under majority ownership by Bestseller (since 2024), returning to market through a digital-first strategy centred on AI-generated avatars, virtual try-on, and shoppable runway technology. 1 article
- TRESemmé TRESemmé is a salon-quality haircare brand owned by Unilever, founded over 60 years ago in professional hair salons and now a mass-market leader in shampoos, conditioners, and styling products. 1 article
- Unilever Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company selling food, beauty, and home care brands — including Dove, Lipton, Knorr, and Hellmann's — in over 190 countries, making it one of the world's largest CPG advertisers. 1 article
- UNIQLO UNIQLO is the global flagship brand of Fast Retailing, operating approximately 2,400 stores worldwide through a tightly controlled vertically integrated supply chain. 2 articles
- Unove Unove is a South Korean hair care brand known for its "glass hair" keratin-concentrate formulations; it has been the number-one hair care brand at Olive Young for four consecutive years and launched at Sephora in January 2026 with seven SKUs priced $13–$28. 1 article
- VF Corporation VF Corporation is a global apparel and footwear conglomerate headquartered in Denver, Colorado, whose brand portfolio includes The North Face, Vans, Timberland, and Dickies, operating approximately 1,500+ retail stores with around 35,000 employees worldwide. 2 articles
- Wonderskin Wonderskin is a clean beauty brand founded in 2020 in London, known for its patented Wonder Blading technology and TikTok-native peel-off formulas that combine long-wear performance with a camera-ready reveal mechanic. 1 article
Platform
- Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud is China's dominant public cloud provider, leading the country's AI cloud services market with a 35. 6 articles
- AliExpress AliExpress is Alibaba's international marketplace enabling consumers to buy directly from manufacturers and brands globally, available in 18 languages across 200+ markets. 1 article
- Amazon Amazon is the world's largest e-commerce marketplace by revenue and a dominant cloud computing provider through AWS, serving customers across 20+ countries. 5 articles
- Apple Apple is a Cupertino-based multinational technology company designing hardware, software, and services. 3 articles
- Baidu Cloud Baidu AI Cloud is a major Chinese cloud and AI infrastructure provider, part of Baidu's full AI stack spanning deep learning frameworks, large models, and enterprise services. 1 article
- ByteDance ByteDance is a global technology company founded in 2012 and best known for TikTok, operating content and commerce platforms across short video, reading, and enterprise services with over 2. 1 article
- DoorDash DoorDash is a US-based on-demand delivery and logistics platform founded in 2013, originally focused on restaurant delivery and now expanded to retail, grocery, and convenience across 4,000+ cities in the US, Canada, and Australia. 1 article
- Douyin Douyin is ByteDance's Chinese short-form video and live-commerce platform, serving over 800 million daily active users with algorithm-driven content and a rapidly expanding interest-based e-commerce model. 1 article
- Facebook Facebook is Meta's original social network with nearly 3 billion monthly active users globally, operating as a major channel for retail advertising, marketplace commerce, and customer community building. 2 articles
- Faume Faume is a French circular fashion platform founded in 2020 that enables fashion brands to launch and operate fully branded resale channels via a white-label technology and logistics stack, with 40+ brand clients across Europe and €8M raised in 2025. 1 article
- Faves Faves is an athlete marketing and commerce platform, launched in 2025, that connects brands with 400+ professional athletes for authentic, verified product endorsements while enabling athletes to earn income from products they already use. 1 article
- Flipkart Flipkart is India's largest e-commerce platform, founded in 2007 and majority-owned by Walmart since 2018, operating across fashion (via Myntra), grocery, electronics, and general merchandise. 1 article
- Fragrantica Fragrantica is an online fragrance encyclopedia and community platform co-founded in 2007 by Elena and Zoran Knezevic, serving 25 million monthly visitors across 18 languages; it indexes fragrances, aroma ingredients, and perfumer credits, making trade-level molecule data accessible to mainstream consumers and reshaping how niche fragrance discovery works. 1 article
- Google Google is the world's dominant search engine and a global technology company operating under Alphabet, running the most-used digital advertising platform alongside cloud services, Maps, YouTube, and enterprise software. 6 articles
- Honor Honor Device Co. 1 article
- Instagram Instagram is Meta's photo and video sharing platform with over 2 billion monthly active users, operating as the primary social commerce channel for fashion and beauty brands globally. 5 articles
- JD.com JD. 2 articles
- JOOR JOOR is a B2B wholesale platform connecting over 12,500 brands and 325,000+ retailers across 150+ countries, processing roughly $1. 2 articles
- Meituan Meituan is a Chinese super-app built around on-demand food delivery and local services, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, that has expanded into AI with its 560-billion-parameter open-source LongCat model. 3 articles
- Meta Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, operating the world's largest social media ecosystem with nearly 4 billion monthly active users across its platforms. 4 articles
- Mirakl Mirakl is a French-American enterprise marketplace software company founded in 2012, providing AI-powered marketplace and dropship technology to 450+ retailers and B2B enterprises including Macy's, Decathlon, and Kroger. 1 article
- OpenAI OpenAI is the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, now defining itself as the conversation layer through which shoppers discover and intend to purchase while ceding the transaction to brand-controlled systems. 3 articles
- Phia Phia is an AI-native shopping agent co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni that sits in the browser, surfaces best prices in real time, and acts as an alignment layer between shoppers and 6,200+ brand partners. 1 article
- Pinduoduo Pinduoduo is a Chinese social e-commerce platform founded in 2015, built on a group-buying model that aggregates consumer demand to unlock discounted prices. 2 articles
- Pinterest Pinterest is a visual discovery platform with over 500 million monthly active users, where users save and organise images and ideas into thematic boards. 2 articles
- Poshmark Poshmark is a social commerce marketplace with over 80 million users for buying and selling secondhand fashion, now owned by Naver Corporation. 1 article
- Quince Quince is a San Francisco-based manufacturer-to-consumer platform that uses AI to link factories directly to shoppers, cutting out retail intermediaries and using demand signals to guide small-batch production. 1 article
- Sea Limited Sea Limited is a Singapore-headquartered consumer internet conglomerate listed on the NYSE (ticker: SE), operating Shopee (e-commerce), Garena (digital entertainment), and Monee (digital financial services) across Southeast Asia and Taiwan. 1 article
- Shopee Shopee is Southeast Asia's largest e-commerce marketplace, founded in Singapore in 2015 and operated by Sea Limited, with a GMV of roughly $48 billion. 2 articles
- Shopify Shopify is a global e-commerce platform serving over two million merchants across 175+ countries, and is actively building agent-native commerce infrastructure. 4 articles
- Taobao Taobao is Alibaba's consumer-to-consumer and small-merchant marketplace, China's largest online shopping platform by number of sellers and product listings, with hundreds of millions of active buyers. 7 articles
- Tencent Cloud Tencent Cloud is a global cloud services provider holding approximately 7% of China's AI cloud market, offering AI compute, big data, and enterprise application services. 3 articles
- ThredUp ThredUp is one of the world's largest online resale platforms for apparel, operating both a consumer marketplace and a Resale-as-a-Service offering for brands. 1 article
- TikTok TikTok is ByteDance's short-video platform with over 1. 11 articles
- TikTok Shop TikTok Shop is the integrated commerce layer within TikTok, enabling brands and creators to sell via in-feed video, live broadcasts, and creator affiliate programmes without leaving the app. 4 articles
- Tmall Tmall is Alibaba's B2C marketplace hosting official flagship stores for major domestic and international brands selling directly to Chinese consumers, distinct from Taobao's individual seller model. 2 articles
- U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol The U. 1 article
- Vestiaire Collective Vestiaire Collective is a leading global online marketplace for pre-loved luxury and premium fashion, founded in 2009 and operating in over 80 countries as a Certified B Corporation, with 30,000 new items listed daily. 1 article
- Vinted Vinted is Europe's largest C2C secondhand fashion marketplace, founded in 2008 in Lithuania and now operating across 26+ markets with over 80 million registered members. 1 article
- WeChat WeChat is Tencent's super-app with over 1. 3 articles
- WhatsApp WhatsApp is Meta's end-to-end encrypted messaging platform with over 2 billion users, dominant in markets including India, Brazil, the Middle East, and Western Europe. 3 articles
Vendor
- Adobe Adobe is a global software company whose Experience Cloud and Analytics platforms help retailers measure, personalize, and optimize digital commerce at scale. 2 articles
- AIVO AIVO is an AI visibility intelligence platform and strategic consultancy that tracks how brands are cited and recommended by generative AI systems including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI. 1 article
- Algolia Algolia is a hosted AI search and retrieval platform founded in 2012 in Paris, processing 1. 1 article
- Alhena Alhena (formerly Gleen AI) is a US AI commerce platform founded in 2022 that provides hallucination-free AI shopping assistants and agentic CX tools for e-commerce brands, covering shopping guidance, customer support, returns processing, and social commerce. 1 article
- AlixPartners AlixPartners is a global management consulting firm founded in 1981, specializing in performance improvement, corporate turnarounds, digital transformation, and restructuring, with deep practice in luxury, consumer, and retail sectors across 25+ offices worldwide. 1 article
- AutoStore AutoStore is a Norwegian company that manufactures grid-based robotic AS/RS systems in which robots traverse a cube grid to retrieve bins and deliver them to picking workstations, increasing storage density by up to 400% and eliminating warehouse aisles. 1 article
- Becri Becri Group is a Portuguese textile manufacturing group founded in 1983 and based in Barcelos, specialising in circular knit fabrics with an integrated R&D department and sustainability focus. 1 article
- Bold Metrics San Francisco-based AI body data platform that predicts shoppers' precise body measurements from a brief survey — no photos or tape measure required — enabling personalized fit recommendations at scale. 1 article
- BrightEdge BrightEdge is a Silicon Valley-based enterprise SEO and content performance platform founded in 2007, used by over 12,000 global brands including ten of the top ten largest online retailers. 1 article
- ChannelEngine ChannelEngine is a multichannel commerce platform connecting brands, distributors, and retailers to 950+ global marketplaces via integrations with ERP, PIM, WMS, and ecommerce systems. 1 article
- Charm.io Charm. 1 article
- CLO Virtual Fashion CLO Virtual Fashion is a Seoul-headquartered 3D fashion design software company founded in 2009, whose simulation tools are used by major brands including Adidas, Hugo Boss, and Inditex to reduce physical sampling in garment development. 1 article
- commercetools commercetools is a composable commerce platform that provides enterprises with AI-first infrastructure including a Model Context Protocol layer that makes product catalogues, pricing, and inventory natively accessible to agentic AI systems. 3 articles
- Constructor Constructor is an AI-powered product discovery platform built exclusively for ecommerce, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco; it uses ML, NLP, and behavioural personalisation to power search, browsing, and recommendations for large retailers such as Sephora, Petco, and The Very Group. 1 article
- Covariant Covariant is a US AI robotics company founded in 2017 that develops the Covariant Brain, a universal foundation model for robot perception and manipulation, and its flagship RFM-1 multimodal transformer trained on robot actions, sensor readings, images, and text. 1 article
- Coveo Coveo is a publicly traded Canadian AI search and relevance platform with 17+ years in enterprise digital experience, offering ecommerce product discovery, personalisation, and conversational shopping powered by agentic orchestration architecture. 1 article
- Daifuku Daifuku is the world's leading provider of automated material handling systems, supplying AS/RS, sortation, and conveyor solutions to manufacturing, distribution, and retail logistics operations across 26 countries. 1 article
- Dataiku Dataiku is a New York-based enterprise AI platform company founded in 2013, serving over 750 large organisations globally with tools for collaborative data science, MLOps, and agentic AI deployment. 1 article
- Domaine Domaine is a leading global Shopify design and development agency supporting 100+ enterprise brands across the US, Canada, and Europe. 1 article
- EcoVadis EcoVadis is a Paris-based sustainability intelligence company that provides evidence-based ratings and scorecards to over 100,000 businesses across 175 countries and 220 industry categories. 1 article
- Fakespot Fakespot was a consumer-facing review authentication tool that used AI to grade the reliability of product reviews on major marketplaces; it was acquired by Mozilla in 2023 and shut down in July 2025 when Mozilla could not find a sustainable business model. 1 article
- Fragify.ai AI platform that uses molecular accord analysis to map luxury fragrances to affordable clones, marketed as a "digital sommelier" and "fragrance DNA analyst. 1 article
- Givaudan Givaudan is a Swiss multinational and the world's largest flavours and fragrances company, founded in 1895 and headquartered in Vernier, Switzerland, supplying aroma chemicals, natural ingredients, and specialty compounds to perfume and food companies globally; it invests roughly 8% of annual revenue in innovation including biotech and green chemistry under its 2030 strategy. 1 article
- Gladly Gladly is a San Francisco-based customer experience platform founded in 2014 that unifies voice, email, SMS, chat, and social into a single lifelong conversation thread per customer; its retail clients include Nordstrom, REI, Allbirds, and Ulta Beauty. 1 article
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- Juriulu (剧里鹿) Juriulu (剧里鹿) is a Chinese AI-native short drama platform that uses generative video models — including ByteDance's Seedance 2. 1 article
- Kyndryl Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company spun off from IBM, specialising in modernising legacy enterprise systems for cloud and AI readiness. 1 article
- Linqia Linqia is a San Francisco-based, full-service influencer and creator marketing platform founded in 2012, trusted by Fortune 500 brands. 1 article
- Linx Linx S. 1 article
- Logistics Reply Logistics Reply is an Italian supply chain and warehouse management software specialist within the Reply Group, offering the LEA Reply WMS platform and the GaliLEA multi-agent AI suite for dynamic task allocation and warehouse coordination. 1 article
- Maison Meta New York-based generative AI agency for fashion, beauty, and luxury brands, and founder of AI Fashion Week. 1 article
- Meshcapade Max Planck spin-off (now part of Epic Games) offering AI-powered 3D body and avatar creation from a single photo or basic measurements, enabling virtual try-on without specialist scanning hardware. 1 article
- Moloco Moloco is an AI-powered retail media platform that enables retailers and marketplaces to build first-party ads businesses through machine-learning-driven ad personalisation. 1 article
- Multiverse Multiverse is a UK-US AI and tech upskilling platform founded in 2016, partnering with 1,500+ employers to deliver apprenticeships in AI, data, and digital skills for employees at any career stage. 1 article
- Nedap Nedap is a Dutch technology company founded in 1929 and listed on Euronext Amsterdam, specialising in item-level RFID solutions for retail through its iD Cloud platform and Inventory Engine, which deliver real-time stock visibility across stores, distribution centres, and supply chains globally. 2 articles
- Niusia Niusia Co. 1 article
- Niv-AI Niv-AI is a Tel Aviv-based startup (founded May 2025, $12M seed) that deploys rack-level sensors and software to manage millisecond-scale GPU power surges in data centers, recovering up to 30% of throttled compute performance. 1 article
- Omnisend Omnisend is an email and SMS marketing automation platform serving over 100,000 ecommerce merchants, with research capabilities tracking consumer attitudes toward AI-assisted commerce. 1 article
- One iota One iota is a UK-based omnichannel retail technology company founded in 2010, specialising in bridging physical store inventory with digital commerce for retailers including JD Sports, Superdry, and Blacks. 1 article
- Otto Group one.O Otto Group one. 1 article
- Padma Textiles Padma Textiles is a multinational fashion-production and design-services company founded in 1995, with design teams across Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Italy, and the US, and owned factories in Bangladesh, Turkey, Portugal, Morocco, Egypt, and China. 1 article
- Peak AI Peak is a Manchester-based AI software company offering decision-intelligence applications for pricing, inventory, and merchandising in retail and manufacturing. 1 article
- Perplexity Perplexity is an AI search and agent company whose Comet browser acts autonomously to browse, compare, and complete purchases across merchant sites on behalf of consumers. 2 articles
- Physical Intelligence Physical Intelligence (PI) is a San Francisco-based AI robotics company founded in March 2024 that builds general-purpose foundation models for robot motor control, enabling a single model to perform diverse manipulation tasks—including garment folding—without task-specific reprogramming. 1 article
- Retraced Retraced is an AI-first fashion and textile supply chain compliance platform that enables brands to map suppliers from raw material to final product, digitize compliance data, and gain visibility across all supply chain tiers. 1 article
- SAP SAP is a German multinational enterprise software company and the world's leading ERP vendor, with a dominant installed base among large retailers globally and in Brazil. 1 article
- smartminded GmbH smartminded is a German ecommerce tooling company focused on Amazon FBA, online marketing, and marketplace optimisation, offering products including keyword tools, listing generators, and seller analytics. 1 article
- Stylitics Stylitics is a New York-based AI platform powering automated outfitting, styling recommendations, and AI on-model imagery for major fashion retailers including Macy's, Kohl's, Nike, and Revolve, serving over 200 million shoppers per month. 1 article
- TC2 Textile Clothing Technology Corporation, founded 1979, is the world's largest 3D body scanner manufacturer with over 1,000 units in fashion, fitness, and medical settings. 1 article
- The Fabricant The Fabricant is an Amsterdam-based digital fashion house founded in 2018 by Kerry Murphy and Amber Slooten, pioneering digital-only garments and AI-powered design tools. 1 article
- THG Ingenuity THG Ingenuity is an end-to-end ecommerce technology and services platform, demerged from THG plc in early 2025, offering retailers commerce infrastructure, AI content production, and fulfilment. 1 article
- TrusTrace Stockholm-based supply chain traceability platform serving 60+ fashion brands including Adidas, Tapestry, and Primark, connecting 50,000+ suppliers with AI-powered data collection and sustainability reporting. 2 articles
- uMode uMode is a São Paulo-based fashion technology company that develops AI-powered collection planning and PLM software for Brazilian fashion brands. 1 article
- United Textile Group A/S United Textile Group (UTG) is a Danish private-label jersey manufacturer founded in 1968 and headquartered in Ikast, employing over 800 people across factories in Turkey, Lithuania, and Ukraine. 1 article
- Yupp.ai Yupp. 1 article
- Zelig AI-powered fashion styling platform whose patented technology combines outfit simulation, digital closets, and personalised recommendations to improve discovery, conversion, and returns rates for fashion retailers. 1 article
Logistics
- Hapag-Lloyd One of the world's five largest container shipping companies, operating 264 vessels connecting 600+ ports across 135 countries. 1 article
- Uber Eats Uber Eats is Uber's on-demand delivery platform, originally built for restaurant food delivery and now expanding into retail product fulfilment partnerships with department stores and general merchandise retailers. 2 articles
Research
- Access Partnership Access Partnership is a global technology policy and regulatory advisory firm helping businesses navigate government policy, digital trade rules, and innovation regulation across more than 200 markets. 1 article
- Altagamma Altagamma is an Italian foundation founded in 1992 representing over 100 high-end Italian companies across fashion, design, jewellery, hospitality, and automotive sectors. 1 article
- Bain & Company Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm with a major retail and consumer practice, and has emerged as a key forecaster of agentic AI's commercial impact. 2 articles
- Bellingcat Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based nonprofit investigative journalism organisation founded in 2014 by Eliot Higgins, specialising in open-source intelligence (OSINT) and fact-checking. 1 article
- Bielefeld University Bielefeld University is a German research university founded in 1969, known for its interdisciplinary approach and its CITEC (Cognitive Interaction Technology) centre of excellence, which conducts research in computer vision, robotics, and human-machine interaction. 1 article
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting and strategy firm. 1 article
- Canadian Apparel Federation The Canadian Apparel Federation (CAF) is Canada's national trade association for the apparel industry, headquartered in Ottawa, representing brands, manufacturers, and importers on trade policy, sourcing, and regulatory matters affecting the sector. 1 article
- Cascale Global non-profit alliance of 300+ brands, retailers, and manufacturers (formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition), creator of the Higg Index and a leading force in pre-competitive sustainability standardisation for apparel and footwear. 1 article
- Circana Circana is a Chicago-based market research and technology firm (formed from the 2023 merger of IRI and NPD Group) tracking 2,000+ consumer categories across 500,000+ stores in 20 countries, serving ~7,000 brands and retailers. 1 article
- Coresight Research Coresight Research is a global retail research and advisory firm operating at the intersection of fashion, retail, and technology, with deep coverage of consumer sentiment, AI adoption, and market sizing across the US, Europe, and China. 1 article
- eMarketer eMarketer (now Insider Intelligence) is a New York-based market research firm providing digital marketing, advertising, and commerce forecasts used as benchmark data by retailers, brands, and agencies globally. 1 article
- EPFL EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is one of Europe's leading technical universities, consistently ranked in the global top 20, with approximately 350 labs spanning computer science, data science, machine learning, robotics, and engineering. 1 article
- Fair Wear Dutch non-profit working with garment brands and factories to improve labour conditions across 11 production countries, operating performance audits, workplace education, and complaint helplines since 1999. 1 article
- Future Commerce Future Commerce is a commerce research and media company publishing original consumer research, podcasts, and cultural analysis for retail and DTC leaders. 1 article
- Gartner Gartner is a global research and advisory firm providing technology adoption data, market forecasts, and executive guidance across industries including retail. 1 article
- Joint Research Centre The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's in-house science and knowledge service, operating across six sites in five EU countries and collaborating with over a thousand partners worldwide. 1 article
- London College of Fashion London College of Fashion is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, one of the world's leading institutions for fashion education spanning design, business, media, and technology. 1 article
- NielsenIQ NielsenIQ (NIQ) is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, formed by the 2023 merger of Nielsen and GfK, with operations in 95+ countries covering 97% of global GDP. 1 article
- OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental body of 38 member countries, founded in 1961, that produces economic research, policy analysis, and international standards to promote sustainable growth. 1 article
- OmniFashion OmniFashion is a research project from Wuhan University and Harbin Institute of Technology focused on generalist fashion intelligence via multi-task vision-language learning. 1 article
- Spot On Minds London-based boutique executive search and leadership consultancy founded in 2006, specialising in senior placements across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, and premium goods. 1 article
- The Industry We Want Multi-stakeholder initiative tracking and facilitating industry-wide progress across the garment and footwear sector, working alongside Fair Wear, ETI, and Cascale to connect brands, suppliers, trade unions, and civil society. 1 article
Media
- Alimama Alimama is Alibaba Group's digital marketing technology platform, selling CPC search ads, display ads, and feed placements across Taobao, Tmall, and affiliated inventory to over one million merchant customers. 1 article
- DG Media Network DG Media Network (DGMN) is Dollar General's retail media network, connecting CPG brands to 90 million+ rural shoppers via first-party data-driven digital and in-store advertising. 1 article
- Novus Novus Media LLC is an independent media planning, buying, and analytics agency headquartered in Chicago, specialising in location-first media programmes across digital, TV, radio, OOH, and print. 1 article
- Omni Talk Retail Omni Talk Retail is a retail media and content platform founded in 2017 by former Target VP Chris Walton, producing podcasts, newsletters, and editorial commentary on omnichannel and retail technology trends. 1 article
- Omnicom Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) is a global advertising and marketing holding company comprising over 1,000 agencies — including BBDO, DDB, TBWA, OMD, and PHD — serving more than 5,000 clients across 100 countries. 1 article
- The Knot Worldwide The Knot Worldwide is a global wedding technology company operating marketplace and planning platforms — including The Knot and WeddingWire — in 16+ countries, connecting over 4 million couples annually with vendors and providing planning tools, registries, and consumer trend research. 2 articles
- The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company is a leading diversified international entertainment and media enterprise operating across film, television, streaming, and theme parks, with subsidiaries including Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. 1 article
- WPP WPP is the world's largest advertising and marketing services holding company, headquartered in London, with subsidiaries including Ogilvy, AKQA, and WPP Media (formerly GroupM). 1 article
Financial
- BlackRock BlackRock is the world's largest asset management firm, overseeing more than $10 trillion in assets across public equities, fixed income, alternatives, and private markets globally. 1 article
- European Investment Bank The European Investment Bank is the EU's lending institution, owned by the 27 member states, providing long-term financing for sustainable investment projects across Europe and beyond. 1 article
- ICONIQ Capital ICONIQ Capital is a San Francisco-based hybrid family office and growth equity firm managing capital for technology executives and institutions, investing across venture, private equity, and real estate in technology-led companies. 1 article
- Insight Partners Insight Partners is a New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1995, with over $90 billion in assets under management and investments in more than 875 software, internet, and consumer technology companies worldwide. 1 article
- Investidores.vc Investidores. 1 article
- PayPal PayPal is a global payments platform that has extended into agentic commerce infrastructure, making merchant inventory purchasable inside AI assistants and chat interfaces. 1 article
- Piper Sandler Piper Sandler Companies is a U. 1 article
- Rothschild & Co Rothschild & Co is one of the world's largest independent financial advisory groups, with over 200 years of history and 4,200 specialists across 40+ countries, providing M&A, financing strategy, and wealth management to corporations, families, and governments. 1 article
- Silver Point Capital Silver Point Capital is a Greenwich, Connecticut-based multi-strategy credit investment firm founded in 2002 by former Goldman Sachs partners Edward Mulé and Robert O'Shea, managing approximately $46 billion across direct lending, special situations, and structured credit strategies. 1 article
- Simon Property Group Simon Property Group is the largest U. 1 article
- Smart Money Ventures Smart Money Ventures is a São Paulo-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014, with a portfolio of 24 companies focused on SaaS, EdTech, HRTech, and FinTech for Brazilian corporate customers. 1 article