Matalan Limited

... because it'll come back to a bit later

... it's like a Swedish Matalan.

Okay.

Mm.

Yeah, there are all kinds of things.

And yeah, so, okay, you know, maybe we want everyone to be in color, but does everyone have to be in a logo jumper, or could you get a cheap sweater from Primark or Matalan that's the right color?

I mean, it's definitely getting worse and worse, 'cause when you and I were at school, we had a school sweatshirt that had the logo on, but then we were allowed to just buy any old plain white polo shirt and any old-

Not me.

No, I'm told you, you feel that old women like you, you have a affiliation with old women, which is why we've probably connected.

Well, my normal audience look like they've done a mad dash through Matalan.

[laughs]

All right.

And Hunter is also celebrating its 170th anniversary, launching its iconic By Nature campaign starring Kate Moss alongside a new footwear and outerwear collection.

Matalan appointed former Marx and Spencer creative director Adele Pickering as head of creative brand.

Starting in November, Pickering will oversee creative execution across stores, digital, social, and marketing.

And Mango appointed Katarzyna Nimirovic-Mojtas as chief retail officer, replacing Cesar Di Vicente.

[laughs] Yeah.

No, the other day we was in Ma- we was in Matalan, yeah, and he was paying for something, and I wa- he kept, he kept shouting in the store, "I want a divorce." So I walked off, yeah, and then he was paying, and he was like, "Do you want the change?" By the way, I turned back and, "Let me get that." [laughs]

Well, I opened, well, I opened the, the leather purse with the string.

I was like-

You lemon.

Or you can return it if it's a faulty top from Matalan.

Yeah.

This episode is sponsored by Matalan.

I was too busy 10Xing my portfolio to worry about the fucking receipt, bro.

Oh, I didn't see that video because I was trading.

He has over 20 years in web technology experience and a decade spent as a CTO.

So Ryan co-founded Shift Commerce, the first enterprise scale headless SaaS, and he worked at, he was the CTO of Matalan Direct, which was the fastest growing business on Shopify.

So thank you so much for joining me, Ryan.

Hope you're going to share your extensive experience with my audience.

For us, we joined halfway through, so we could only use our first few months of trading and we still came second.

So, yeah, so we'd launched that business, became very, very successful very quickly.

And then, yeah, that was acquired to become a Matalan Direct as part of Matalan here in the UK.

And then, yeah, I went on from that kind of experience with Shopify.