The Very Group is a pureplay digital retailer operating in the UK and Ireland with over 1,000 employees. Through its flagship brands Very and Littlewoods, the company serves 4.4 million customers across fashion, homeware, toys, beauty, and consumer technology. It also operates Very Pay, a flexible payments platform integrated with its retail offering.
The company completed its full digital transition in 2015 and is headquartered in Liverpool, with additional offices across the East Midlands, London, Dublin, Wrexham, and Bolton. The business traces its roots to 1860s catalogue origins, with Littlewoods Home Shopping launched in the 1930s, giving it over a century of continuous reinvention.
The Very Group is currently undertaking what it describes as its biggest ever digital transformation. This includes re-platforming its technical systems and developing generative AI capabilities, evidenced by the launch of VeryGPT in 2024. The company leverages one of the richest consumer datasets in the UK to support personalized shopping experiences and platform engineering initiatives across its retail and payments operations.
