This article is brought to you by Retail Technology Review: Grability announces deal with El Corte Inglés to power mobile shopping platform for European Retail Giant’s Portugal operation.
Grability, the mobile-shopping technology company, has announced that European retail giant El Corte Inglés will launch a mobile shopping platform for its Portuguese market powered by Grability technology. Executives from both companies say the deal – which marks Grability's latest expansion in Europe – will bolster El Corte Inglés' position as one of the country's leading online grocery retailers.
Grability's rise signals a major departure from the current state of e-commerce for the Fast Moving Consumer Good industry where just between 1% and 3% of sales are currently online, and of those only a small fraction are mobile. With Grability, retailers aim to raise online sales to 10% by giving consumers an easy-to-use and intuitive user experience that draws on the in-store shopping experience they are well acquainted with.
"Grability gives mobile consumers a shopping experience they both understand and enjoy," says Sebastian Mejia, CEO of Grability. "With this deal, El Corte Inglés will unlock the tremendous potential of the mobile channel by giving their customers in Portugal's grocery market the best mobile shopping experience in the world and a way of shopping that they all know how to use."
Since launching in December 2014 for the Spanish retail market, El Cortes Inglés says it has experienced a surge in mobile grocery sales as well as marked customer enthusiasm for the new platform. According to El Corte Inglés executives, Grability has also helped position the company as the most innovative online grocer in the countries it operates.
"Grability is the easiest-to-use mobile shopping platform we've encountered, not just in Europe but around the world," says Pedro Barbosa, head of digital of El Corte Inglés in Portugal. "It's exactly the kind of innovation we love to see—one which directly serves our customers by radically improving the shopping experience. We're very excited to expand the Grability technology into our e-commerce operations in Portugal."
In addition, Grability also works closely with leading brands by allowing them to market to consumers in a much more efficient and non-invasive way, compared with the kind of banner advertising that's been shown to deter customers from current apps.
Grability partner brands—which include Coca-Cola, Unilever, P&G, Heineken, Oreo, Pernod-Ricard, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnnie Walker and Wrigley—say Grability's crisp presentation of products and the new opportunities for mobile product placement, which, until now, have been unavailable on e-commerce platforms and resemble offline marketing initiatives by brands in-store, represent another major benefit of the technology.
Led by CEO Sebastian Mejia, Grability backers include Chris Burch, co-founder of Tory Burch LLC and CEO of Burch Creative Capital, and Marcello V. Bottoli, Operating Partner at Advent International and former chairman, president and CEO of Louis Vuitton Malletier, as well as former CEO of Samsonite.
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