2018: An exciting year in review (and a sneak peek into 2019)

Season’s greetings!

In the spirit of celebrating 2018 and transitioning to the new year, here’s a brief update on our company’s progress and plans for the future. In the past 12 months, Ragtrades has made incredible headway in building a forward-thinking community of people using technology to help the fashion industry evolve. We’re lucky to be working on important problems in an industry with a growing appetite for data — and a growing number of smart people who are championing the intelligent use of data within their organizations. We’ve expanded our business, grown our team, and improved our technology by leaps and bounds.

While bringing a new product to this industry comes with challenges, we’ve been supported by a truly amazing group of clients — including some of the largest and most visionary apparel and fashion businesses on the planet. From the entire Ragtrades team, we thank you for your guidance and your business. We are proud and humbled to be your partners. My personal thanks also to our devoted advisors, and the team that keeps Ragtrades humming.

What can you look forward to in 2019? In the next 12 months, Ragtrades plans to…

• Display more granular pricing data (fully-landed cost details). You’ll be able to compare not just total costs, but the separate, granular costs of shipping and duties. This kind of apples-to-apples analysis is a growing priority in global e-commerce, and we’re going to make it easy to analyze.
• Continue to hone our data accuracy. High-quality data is vital to our clients, and devising ever-more intelligent ways to collect and process it is an ongoing data science challenge of the highest order. We’re getting better at it every day.
• Invest even more in client success. Making sure our partners succeed is the most important part of our work. We’re devoting more budget to building a client success team that will define goals in partnership with our clients and work towards achieving them together.

If you’re not a Ragtrades partner yet, we look forward to connecting soon. To our loyal clients, thank you for keeping us inspired. Your willingness to imagine a more efficient and profitable fashion industry makes everything possible. Here’s to another 12 months of supporting the fashion industry’s successes!

All my best,

Andrea Marron, Cofounder/CEO, and the Ragtrades team