Ever wonder what happens to all the sports equipment, furniture, and other items used to furnish the various venues at major sporting events? Furniture and equipment from the olympic village and sporting venues in Paris are getting a second life courtesy of B-Stock and our partner, RGS Events (talk about supporting the circular economy on an olympic scale!). In support of its sustainable event management initiatives, Olympic Sponsor, RGS Events – the official FF&E Project Manager of the Games – is selling over 45,000 pieces of furniture, fixtures, and equipment used to furnish the athlete ..read more

B-Stock is so excited to welcome Angelica Wang to the Product Design team this summer! As a summer teammate, we know Angelica will be an incredible asset to the company. Angelica is currently studying Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Michigan. Learn a bit more about Angelica and see her answers to some questions below. Q: What are you most excited to learn at B-Stock? Learning effective communication within and across teams, along with improving my design skills Q: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? (Or still want to be!) Astronaut Q: What is one piec ..read more

Need a Better Way to Manage Your Surplus Goods? Use B-Stock's Recovery Insights Tool Shoppers today truly want it all—the latest models and styles, fast delivery, easy exchanges, free returns, and so on—and for the most part, leading brands and retailers have gotten great customer experiences down to a science. Unfortunately, enormous selections, same-day shipping, and lenient exchange and return policies have now led to a different business challenge: massive amounts of excess and returned inventory that can be extremely difficult to process and remarket in a cost-effective way. Fortunately ..read more

B-Stock is so excited to welcome Sabrina Glaser to the Account Management team this summer! As a summer teammate, we know Sabrina will be an incredible asset to the company. Sabrina is currently studying Marketing and Business Analytics at the Kelley School of Business. Learn a bit more about Sabrina and see her answers to some questions below. Q: What are you most excited to learn at B-Stock? This summer, I am most excited to learn about different analytical tools such as Tableau. I enjoy utilizing given data to analyze patterns that lead to new insights and improvements. Q: When you were a k ..read more

Buying and Selling Bulk Items Hey there, future mogul! Have you tapped into the gold mine of buying and selling bulk items for resale yet? As the e-commerce market booms, a massive opportunity awaits in the realm of resellable inventory. We’re talking about goods that are in wonderful condition and frequently brand-new, just waiting for a shrewd person to buy them and turn a profit. Even more opportunities await for there are various conditions of inventory buyers can choose from. Why is this market currently so hot? Because buyers enjoy finding great discounts on used and reconditioned goods ..read more

Unilever Aims High on Sustainability—and We’re Helping If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve used many of Unilever’s products over your lifetime. In fact, you’ve probably got at least a few of them living in your bathroom, pantry, or fridge at this very moment. Founded in 1929 through the merger of a British soap maker and a Dutch margarine company, this London-based multinational corporation has stayed true to its roots producing mostly personal care products and packaged foods—and as of 2024, it’s grown into a $116 billion business that sells its brands in nearly every country on Earth. Wi ..read more

While the matter of what to do with slow-moving and unsold consumer goods is a constant challenge for brands and retailers, it’s also a very common one. That’s why leaders from recommerce organizations like B-Stock are working to develop smart, data-driven approaches that promise to maximize cost recovery and operational efficiency—all while supporting sustainable business practices. In Episode #458 of The New Warehouse Podcast host Kevin Lawton welcomes Robert Iaria, B-Stock’s VP of Client Solutions & Logistics, for a dialogue on the causes and nuances of this excess inventory challenge ..read more

Lori Sifuentes, a stay-at-home mom turned couponer-extraordinaire, did not have plans to build up a flourishing resale business. Now, as a Nevada-based reseller, Lori contributes to household finances, maintains Poshmark’s Posh Ambassador status, and is a top-rated eBay seller. And while she thanks her husband for his sewing and mending contributions, Lori can proudly say she is a one-woman show. Most impressively, Lori shares genuine excitement over what she lists–it’s not hard to see why. Her Poshmark contains a plethora of trendy women’s and men’s clothing for great prices. But apparel asid ..read more

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Each year, B-Stock facilitates the movement of billions of dollars worth of returned and overstock inventory via the world’s largest B2B recommerce marketplace. This means, of course, that we sit in the middle of a two-sided network madue up of both sellers and buyers around the globe. As a marketplace facilitator, B-Stock is only successful when we deliver results for everyone involved. What keeps buyers coming back is easy, consistent access to the bulk inventory they need, high listing accuracy, and confidence in the quality of the goods. On the other side, our sellers trust us to deliver m ..read more