Through its PCH Accelerator and Highway1 fund, PCH International, has acquired Canadian e-commerce platform, ShopLocket, in a significant strategic move by the company.

Irish global product development and supply chain company PCH International has acquired ShopLocket, a Canada-based ecommerce platform. The acquisition offers hardware start-ups an entrepreneur-friendly marketplace to launch and sell their products. Together with PCH, this creates the world’s first end-to-end service offering that helps startups to create, develop, manufacture and sell hardware products direct to consumers.

PCH makes its investments through its PCH Accelerator and Highway1 investment vehicles.

PCH Chief Executive Officer and founder Liam Casey said of…