Having spent much of his early career at IBM UK, Rob Mannion had an unfulfilled desire to create and run his own business and in 2009 founded RNF Digital Innovation Ltd, later to be rebranded as b2b.store - one of the UK's fastest growing eCommerce platforms.
“I always felt passionate about the potential new technologies had on revolutionising the business environment” Rob says.
Along with his brother and Co-Founder Mike, the business won many accolades supporting several large forward thinking organisations including Bridgestone Tyres and Calor Gas with ground-breaking mobile focussed solutions, but soon gained traction in the UK Wholesale sector after having developed the UK’s first mobile ordering app for one of the UK's biggest wholesalers, Bestway Cash & Carry who still remain a client to this day.
In 2018 we recognised an opportunity which we felt we could fill in that there were relatively few B2B focussed eCommerce platforms on the market. The landscape consisted of overly complicated expensive offerings, or SaaS eCommerce platforms that were more focussed on B2C eCommerce, with the B2B use case appearing to be somewhat of an afterthought.
In February 2019 the first line of code was written for what ultimately became the b2b.store eCommerce platform and in 2020 our first clients went live. Just 12 months later, Dale Jefferson, Chief Architect of b2b.store had successfully deployed a highly robust and scalable SaaS platform used by an ever increasing number of businesses, in multiple sectors and geographies around the world.
A sign we’re doing something right (Data from August 2021)
Paul Michael, Director, The Soft Drink Company"The previous platform didn’t take off in the same way the b2b.store app has. It’s 100% a better platform than the old online-ordering site we used"
Aled Roberts, Managing Director, R&I Jones"Once our customers saw the ease of use of b2b.store, they were converted"
Paul MacDonald, Director, MacDonald Plumbing And Heating SuppliesRob, Adam & Carlin are really customer focused & care about our business. This App will play a key part in our growth & is an excellent product
Inga Hobbs, Digital Marketing Manager , Rowan International "The desktop optimisation is brilliant! Having more products on screen is amazing - much less scrolling! Plus, having the shopping basket at the side of the page is very handy.
Jackie Watt, Thomsons Foodservice "Just wanted to say that we are delighted with your b2b eCommerce service that has now gone live. We have had some amazing feedback."
Ben Morgan-Smith, CPO, BrewBroker "The freemium model allowed us to very quickly spin up a sales solution for all the available stock that was sitting around in shut down breweries. Great system, model and service from the guys at b2b.store. Could not recommend them enough."
Ozan Okyay , Purchase Manager, Extra Cash & Carry "The whole process was simple from start to finish. We only filled an excel form with our product details and sent the pictures and our wholesale app was ready to use. It is amazing that only in a couple of days our own name App was ready to use"
Rob Busst, Managing Director, Food Store International "The b2b.store eCommerce solution is providing valuable additional sales support and is increasing our business."
