Marks & Spencer acquires Thread specialist fashion tech in personalisation push

Thread site on phone screen

Marks & Spencer is to amp up the personalisation of its fashion offer after acquiring the intellectual property of specialist marketplace Thread, which had collapsed into administration.

Marks & Spencer has bought property including the source code and algorithms developed by Thread and is hiring 30 of its former data scientists, software engineers and styling and creative colleagues.

 

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