• Leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform and award-winning digital transformation agency attend MENA’s largest retail and ecommerce exhibition to showcase omnichannel and headless strategies that fuel top-caliber digital consumer experiences.

Dubai, UAE: – Like Digital & Partners, the award-winning agency with offices in Dubai, London and soon opening in Riyadh, will join BigCommerce, a leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established B2C and B2B brands, to participate in Seamless Middle East 2022 from 31 May to 1 June at Dubai World Trade Center, booth L41. Senior Vice President at BigCommerce Meghan Stabler will be sharing insights during the ‘New Next’ for Omnichannel Retailing: Latest Trends, Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions panel discussion on Day 1 at 12:20 pm. 

Seamless Middle East unites more than 10,000 attendees for a global 2-day conference with more than 300 speakers covering the latest trends, market disruptors, and technologies that are shaping the payments, fintech, retail, and ecommerce world. The conference and exhibition come as the UAE continues to experience accelerated ecommerce growth; forecasts predict that the region’s ecommerce market will reach more than $8 billion by 2025.

Like Digital & Partners’ strategic partnership with BigCommerce continues to move the dial of what’s possible in ecommerce, with a focus on agility, flexibility, and future scalability for luxury clients. Recent successes have included the relaunch of the entire ecommerce platform for the British heritage brand Grenson Shoes, and the global launch of Italy's La Perla Beauty, creating a comprehensive global omnichannel platform that delivered consistent, premium digital experiences to connect and engage with customers.

Like Digital works with BigCommerce to deliver:

  • Digital headless ecommerce strategy
  • Story-driven front-end experience with seamless ecommerce journeys
  • Multi-language and localised ecommerce
  • Development of an enterprise ecommerce platform integrated with SAP and Salesforce

“Agility, flexibility and preparedness for the future is what we have found in the headless architecture and MACH approach of Like Digital & Partners. The result has been a roadmap of consistent innovation to support a series of launches throughout 2021,” says Pamela Reynolds, VP, ecommerce, La Perla Beauty.

Karl Escritt, Chief Experience Officer, Like Digital & Partners adds: ‘’With the accelerated growth of ecommerce in the GCC, brands need a platform like BigCommerce that not only offers excellent out-of-the-box capabilities today but also has a flexible roadmap for continued growth.” 

"BigCommerce’s partnership with Like Digital & Partners comes at a time of proven demand for digital transformation and innovation across the GCC region’s retail sector,” said Jim Herbert, senior vice president and general manager of EMEA at BigCommerce. “The fusion of our leading ecommerce platform with headless, enterprise-grade and omnichannel capabilities offers mid-market and enterprise merchants a competitive advantage driven by tech stacks that create content-rich and world-class user experiences.”

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About BigCommerce

BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC) is a leading open software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce platform that empowers merchants of all sizes to build, innovate and grow their businesses online. BigCommerce provides merchants with sophisticated enterprise-grade functionality, customization, and performance with simplicity and ease-of-use. Tens of thousands of B2C and B2B companies across 150 countries and numerous industries use BigCommerce to create beautiful, engaging online stores, including Ben & Jerry’s, Molton Brown, S.C. Johnson, Skullcandy, SoloStove and Vodafone. Headquartered in Austin, BigCommerce has offices in London, Kyiv, San Francisco and Sydney. For more information, please visit bigcommerce.com or follow us on Twitter,  LinkedIn,  Instagram and Facebook.

BigCommerce® is a registered trademark of BigCommerce Pty. Ltd. Third-party trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.

About Like Digital & Partners

Like Digital & Partners is an award-winning agency with offices in London, Dubai and soon to open in Riyadh, offering expert digital transformation services to the world’s leading luxury brands. The company’s ethos is driven by business growth and innovation for its clients, from strategy and development to design and content marketing. The Like Digital & Partners team are renowned for their creativity and innovative digital solutions that enable brands to drive growth and engagement. For more information, please visit likedigital.com or follow us on Linkedin and Instagram

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Lyndon Smith
Sales Director - MENA
Email: Lyndon@like.digital

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Marketing Manager – MENA
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