Ex-Shopify GM leads ReturnBear into more Cadillac Fairview malls with national expansion

8/29/2022

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he Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) and Cadillac Fairview (CF) saw a need to change how e-commerce product returns are handled, and working with OTPP’s in-house venture builder, Koru, created ReturnBear.

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Now led by former Shopify GM Sylvia Ng, ReturnBear hopes to smooth out a major pain point of e-commerce shopping, and is working on expanding its service nationally. ReturnBear is one of the first Canadian startups that aims to offer an end-to-end solution handling product returns on behalf of retailers.

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