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A Marketplace Built by Two People Who Spent Years Being the Brand on the Other Side of It.

Brix + Bailey is a curated global marketplace for independent brands, built by a brother and sister who spent years running one themselves, and learning, the hard way, exactly how it feels from the other side.

We know what it is to make something extraordinary and then struggle hopelessly to get it in front of the people who would love it. So, rather than complain, we built the infrastructure we wished had existed.

Today we connect hundreds of hand-picked brands, designers and boutiques with people who actually care where their things come from. Every brand chosen personally. Every product shipped direct from whoever made it. Nobody here got in by accident, or by paying for the privilege.

Shoppers find brands through Shop by Purpose, our values-based navigation: sustainability, women-led ownership, family owned, small batch, B Corp certified. Alongside it we build our own retail software, because the tools we needed to run a marketplace this way did not exist off the shelf, and we grew tired of waiting for someone else to write them.

We are not a tech company
that decided to do retail.
We are retailers who built the
technology we wished had existed.

What We Are Building

We are expanding our bricks-and-mortar boutique partnerships, because some of the most beautifully curated shops in the world deserve a global audience rather than a local one. If you run a brilliant shop and the internet has somehow failed to notice, that is precisely the problem we were built to solve, and we take it a little personally.

The Facts

Founded in 2012 as an independent handbag and watch brand, across London and New York, with distribution to more than 350 stockists worldwide, including Debenhams.

In 2023, relaunched as a multi-brand marketplace.

Today: hundreds of independent brand partners worldwide, bricks-and-mortar boutiques from London to New York, proprietary retail software built in-house, and two founders with one rather strong point of view about how commerce should work.

What We Are Happy to Talk About

• What bricks-and-mortar boutiques need from the internet, and why the opportunity is larger than it looks.
• What curation actually means when you do it with conviction.
• Building a bootstrapped marketplace from the inside out.
• Values-based discovery: letting people shop by what they care about.
• Sustainable fashion beyond the greenwashing.
• Women-led brands, and what genuine support looks like in practice.
• Why the software that runs a marketplace has to be built by people who run one.
• The extraordinary things independent brands are doing right now.

Announcements

Our own announcements and founder commentary are available on request. We are also happy to connect journalists directly with our brand and boutique partners, where a great many of the good stories actually live.

Brand Assets

Logos, brand imagery and product assets on request, with you within 48 hours.

Get in Touch

For press enquiries, interview requests, imagery and media partnerships, drop us a line. We read everything, and press goes to the top of the pile.

Press: mail@brixbailey.com
Subject: Press Enquiry
Response time: within 48 hours, London and New York
Website: brixbailey.com
Instagram: @brix_bailey
LinkedIn: Brix + Bailey

One Last Thing

We are not, to be clear, a tech company that wandered into retail. We are retailers who built the technology we wished had existed, having lived the alternative and found it considerably less fun.

If you are writing about independent brands, conscious commerce or the future of retail, we would very much like to be part of the conversation.

More on how we work: how we choose brands, sustainability resources, who we are.