Global product development and supply chain company PCH International has acquired Toronto-based e-commerce platform ShopLocket. The purchase will creates the world’s first end-to-end service offering for entrepreneurs and start-ups to help create, develop, manufacture and sell hardware products direct to consumers.
PCH CEO and founder Liam Casey said: “This acquisition puts us at the intersection of hardware and e-commerce, and allows us to authentically communicate with a tech-savvy community… This is the future of creating, making and selling products for wearable tech and the Internet of things. PCH and ShopLocket together are changing the face of global commerce for hardware makers and innovators.”
ShopLocket was founded in 2011 by Katherine Hague and Andrew Louis. The company has built up a community of early adopters who are keen to purchase new hardware products before they become mainstream. The acquisition also enables PCH and its hardware start-up clients to set up physical pop-up stores.
ShopLocket CEO and founder Katherine Hague said: “It’s rare to find another organisation that shares your exact vision for the future of the industry. It’s even rarer to find one that appreciates your work, recognises your potential, and wants to give you the resources to make your vision a reality. We feel incredibly lucky to say that in PCH founder and CEO Liam Casey and the entire PCH team, we know we have found the perfect partners.”
PCH runs two programmes dedicated to hardware start-ups: incubator programme Highway1 and PCH Accelerator for later stage start-ups.
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