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We've been around since 1982 and we've come a long way since then! We opened our first store back in the '80's focusing on women and accessories, closely followed by mens, children's and home and we've always been about the customer.
Online shopping was introduced in 1999, and our entire directory became available over the internet, page by page - we did that before anybody else!
Today, we have more than 400 stores in the UK and EIRE as well as a handful in countries overseas and our directory now serves customers in over 70 countries!
We don't stand still, we are constantly evolving as a business! Almost all of our teams are migrating away from legacy systems to new infrastructure/technology with Business Intelligence leading the way to modernise our platform with ambitions of being fully cloud based very soon!
Different teams work together to constantly create exciting new features that make online shopping that little bit easier, more personalised with an ever increasing range of delivery as well as new payment options.
There's a big focus on automation in our warehousing and distribution operation including hundreds of storage and picking robots! This helps to deliver our 'Shop My Local Store' feature on our websites and provide the constant stock information for searches on Google!
We are working to deliver functionality quicker for our Designers, Buyers and Merchandisers to get our designs to market as soon as possible, this involves the journey from on premise to new exciting innovative solutions in the cloud!
Security also maintains our focus and we need to ensure our diverse and large network is continuously monitored and protected against a wide variety of constantly changing threats whilst remaining up to date on the security threat landscape.
As an overall technology department, we are currently going through a modernisation piece which will include all the latest technologies, cloud and event streaming. This will enable us to future proof and continue to establish ourselves as the retailer of choice.
In the ever changing retail landscape, we are enabling our teams to deliver more and we are very excited to see how NEXT Technology continues to develop and succeed!