The Very Group is a UK and Ireland digital retail company operating the Very and Littlewoods brands and the Very Pay flexible payments platform, serving 4.4 million customers.
The Very Group is a digital retail company operating in the UK and Ireland, serving 4.4 million customers through its two flagship brands, Very and Littlewoods. The group sells across fashion, homeware, toys, beauty and technology, and supports these businesses with Very Pay, a flexible payments platform. The company employs over 1,000 people and is headquartered in Liverpool, with further sites in the East Midlands, London, Dublin, Wrexham and Bolton.
The group's roots reach back to catalogue origins in the 1860s; Littlewoods Home Shopping was launched in Liverpool in the 1930s. A full transition to digital retail was completed in 2015. Very Pay operates alongside the retail brands as a payments business, and the group describes itself as holding one of the richest consumer data sets in the UK, used to build personalised shopping experiences.
Technical work spans generative AI, artificial intelligence and machine learning, personalisation and recommendation systems, consumer data analytics, e-commerce platform engineering, payments technology and digital re-platforming. In 2024 the company launched VeryGPT, a generative AI tool, as part of what it describes as its biggest ever digital transformation, a multi-year programme to re-platform its technology systems.
The company states its purpose as helping families get more out of life. Its stated industries include digital retail, fashion, homeware, toys, beauty, consumer electronics and flexible payments.
