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Hurricane becomes a patchworks partner

Hurricane becomes a Patchworks Partner

Hurricane has become a Partner with the Patchworks platform for eCommerce. Patchworks brings together partners which are able to provide retailers and brands with best-in-class technologies to enable them to successfully scale their eCommerce operations. Patchworks customers include Gymshark, Huel, Sophie Allport, Emma Bridgewater and HermanMiller. Among other key partners of Patchworks is SEKO Logistics, […]

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Hurricane Commerce appointed by Yanwen Express as cross border eCommerce data partner

Hurricane Commerce appointed by Yanwen Express as cross-border eCommerce data partner

Hurricane Commerce has been appointed by Yanwen Express as its global cross-border data partner. Yanwen, one of China’s leading logistics providers, has integrated Hurricane’s data enhancement solution, Zephyr, to ensure its shipments have complete and accurate data including products descriptions, HS6 codes and import and export codes. Yanwen employs over 4,000 people and hands over

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Award winning Hurricane featured in Parcel & Post Technology International

Award-winning Hurricane featured in Parcel & Post Technology International

Hurricane has been extensively profiled in the December edition of Parcel & Post Technology International magazine. The magazine, published by the organisers of Parcel & Post Expo, is recognised around the globe as a leading authority on news and other information in the post and parcel industry. In the December issue, Hurricane’s CEO Martyn Noble

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Emirates Post strengthens partnership with Hurricane Commerce

Emirates Post strengthens partnership with Hurricane Commerce

Emirates Post, the UAE’s official postal operator and leading express provider, has identified the expansion of its international parcels business as a key part of its global growth strategy. The postal operator is investing heavily with the goal of becoming a seamless gateway and strategic logistics hub for cross-border eCommerce traffic for the United Arab

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Hurricane to take part in Leaders in Logistics Summit 2021

Hurricane to take part in Leaders in Logistics Summit 2021

Hurricane Commerce co-founder David Spottiswood has been invited to take part in the Leaders in Logistics Summit 2021. The prestigious half-day event is being held at Grosvenor House in Dubai on December 7. The summit attracts more than 120 senior logistics and supply chain professionals from the Middle East’s largest and most successful companies. The

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Hurricane Commerce wins Supplier of the Year at Parcel & Post Technology International Awards 2021

Hurricane Commerce wins Supplier of the Year at Parcel & Post Technology International Awards 2021

Hurricane Commerce has been named Supplier of the Year at this year’s Parcel & Post Technology International Awards. The announcement was made on the first day of the Parcel & Post Expo 2021 which is being held in Vienna. Hurricane received the award for the impact its cross-border data solutions have had during the last

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Escher integrates Hurricane data solutions to create world-leading OCR engine

Escher integrates Hurricane data solutions to create world-leading OCR engine

Escher has announced that it is integrating data partner Hurricane Commerce’s solutions to create a world-leading optical character recognition (OCR) engine. Last month (September), Escher, the global company transforming postal operators and couriers, completed the acquisition of Finnish-based Syslore. The deal enables Escher to further reduce posts’ processing time, sorting time and costs through a

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Hurricane shortlisted for Parcel & Post Technology International Awards

Hurricane Commerce has been shortlisted for ‘Supplier of the Year’ at this year’s Parcel & Post Technology International Awards. The awards, widely recognised as the most prestigious in the parcel and postal industry, celebrate innovation, growth and sustainability. Hurricane has been shortlisted as a result of several major partnerships it has signed with postal operators

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DG partners with Hurricane Commerce to provide end to end cross border data solutions

DG partners with Hurricane Commerce to provide end-to-end cross-border data solutions

Global logistics specialist DG has selected Hurricane Commerce as its cross-border data partner. The decision to integrate Hurricane’s solutions forms a key part of DG’s ongoing digital transformation programme to enhance the experience of their customers. DG has integrated Hurricane’s Aura solution which covers the critical cross-border areas of duty and tax calculation, prohibited and

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David SpoTtiswood
Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I am an amateur baker, but I still have no idea how sourduogh starter actually works, and am intrigued how it all reacts together to produce an incredible taste.

Favourite Music: November Rain by Guns ‘n’ Roses.  Going to Wembley with my wife our go to fun thing in our early years, our youth with long hair and rock clothing and not a care in the world other than getting the best spot in the house.

Favourite Quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results ” – Albert Einstein

Harry Reilly
Non-exec

Interesting Fact:  I learned Arabic for five years!.

Favourite Music:  A Long December by Counting Crows.  Memory of best family time together in California.

Favourite Quote: “Don’t forget execution, boys. It’s the all-important last 95%”

Tom Lee

Technical Director

Interesting Fact:  I am completely self-taught from a technical skills persepctiuve, and left formal education at 18.

Favourite Music:  Blink 182 – Aliens Exist.  Brings back fond memories of stickly floors and cheap beer.

Favourite Quote: “He sprayed water in my face – thta’s not allowed” – James Haskell.  The whole event surrounding it is hilarious and shows the power of a good wind up

Martin Palmer
Co-Founder

Interesting Fact: I started my working life training to be an accountant but decided I hated numbers. (Ironically I now love them!). I really wanted to join the Hong Kong Police force but couldn’t do that until i was 24. I took a temporary job in Imports and 47 years later here I am.

Favourite Music: There only was one choice. Harry Chapin. Meant a lot to me in my early years as an import broker. We played Chapin for hours and this one seemed to cover so many modes.

Favourite Quote: “No man is an island”

Neil Harmer

Operations Director

Interesting Fact:  As a Geologist my idea of the perfect beach holiday is going to the beach and investigating the rocks in the cliffs behind.

Favourite Music:  Broken Stones – Paul Weller, I’m a huge Paul Weller / The Jam fan; Broken Stones is a very relaxing song, I love the use of the electric piano in it

Favourite Quote: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”. This is a great quote by Benjamin Franklin, to have in your head when working through a series of tasks to help keep focused.

Robert Dundas
Sales Director

Interesting Fact:  One of my life goals is to be able to speak French, I’ve been doing Duolingo every day for the last five years, and I’m still rubbish! 

Favourite Music: Where do I even start! Tom Petty Running Down a Dream, this is my top-down driving next to the ocean song

Favourite Quote: “This time will pass”

ASHLEY DEXTER
CFO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I was nearly named Battle Dexter (I would have probably now been residing in one of His Majesty’s establishments)

Favourite Music: Even though I spent a few years in the music industry my taste of music was always a cause for concern with my colleagues, so to surprise them all my current favourite is Kids by MGMT (absolute belter)

Favourite Quote: “Quitters never win and winners never quit”

Ian Venner
CTO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Runs Red Lantern Records, a not-for-profit, ethical label as a side project, whose artists have regular national BBC radio airplay.

Favourite Music: Tom Waits, pretty much all of his work.  Beautifully observed avante-garde vignettes of life.  Oh, and anything really loud!

Favourite Quote: “It’s not the mountains we climb, but the grit in our shoe that grinds us down” – which sums up taking a business from start-up to enterprise.

Martyn Noble
CEO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Played a high standard of semi-professional rugby union (too many years ago now!)

Favourite Music: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven…my first live gig – Knebworth 11th August 1979, the track never grows old and is the iconic song of ‘hope’ whatever mood you are in when listening too it…and I’m still trying to work out what the lyrics mean!!

Favourite Quote: “Know your customers, Know your People, Know your Numbers” – plagiarised from Sir John Harvey Jones when I met him very early on in my career and values I stick to in my business life.