Bluebell Group Delivers Next-Level Personalization With Bloomreach + Shopify

Bluebell Group is Asia’s leading distributor, curator, and operator for a wide range of brands, including L’Atelier des Parfums Japan, Sabon, Venchi, and LeSportsac. Founded in 1954, the company is known as “the brand behind the brands,” and now boasts over 160 brand partners across over 10 markets in Asia.

Bluebell Group creates hyper-personalized experiences with Bloomreach and Shopify

Products

2
%
of total ecommerce sales
driven by Shopify-powered abandoned cart automation
5.5
%
of total ecommerce revenue
driven by gifting campaigns
12- 15
%
of total ecommerce sales
driven by Electronic Direct Mail (EDM)

Challenge

Because of its large and diverse portfolio of brand partners, Bluebell Group knew that personalization would be key to helping these brands successfully launch in Asian markets. 

However, Bluebell Group’s previous solution led to several challenges: 

  • Disconnected customer data. Without a unified view of customer and product data, the team couldn’t build relevant campaigns or trigger timely communications. 
  • Heavy reliance on IT. Reporting updates and requests had to go through IT, which took time and led to lagging optimization. 
  • Generic marketing. Lack of real-time data meant brands had to send mass communications that weren’t personalized.

Without an easy way to bring customer data and product data together in real time, Bluebell Group couldn’t deliver the personalization necessary to engage and convert customers across a wide range of industries. The company knew it needed a solution that could personalize on a deeper level. 

Solution

With the powerful combination of Bloomreach + Shopify, Bluebell Group now has access to a whole new level of personalization, insights, and automation. 

  • Real-time data consolidation. Bloomreach empowers Bluebell Group to get a complete picture of the customer journey. And that’s made even more powerful with Shopify. For example, let’s say a customer visits a site, adds an item to their cart, but then leaves without purchasing. Then, a day or two later, they make an offline purchase — that record is consolidated so that the marketer knows they don’t need to trigger a reengagement campaign. 
  • Scalable personalization. Tailored campaigns are now easier to launch. Bluebell Group can quickly implement abandoned cart automations, product review campaigns, and more.
    “Before, most of our partner brands only did simple mass communication, which was generic and the same for every customer,” said Erica Lau, Regional Digital Project Manager at Bluebell Group. “With Bloomreach and Shopify, we can now personalize in real time.” 
  • Actionable insights without the need for IT. Instead of having to go through a lengthy IT cycle for every data request, Bluebell Group can now get real-time analytics through Bloomreach. Even local teams have easy access to insights, making it much faster to generate reports and optimize campaigns.

How It Works

  • Bloomreach and Shopify gather all the relevant customer and product data into one consolidated view 
  • Bluebell Group creates personalized campaigns based on each partner brand’s goals and target audience 
  • Bloomreach updates dashboards in real time to provide the most current performance metrics 
  • Bluebell Group uses those insights to optimize its efforts or create follow-up campaigns

“Bloomreach has been a super helpful partner and has ensured that we’re set up for success,” added Lau. “I still reference those meeting recordings from time to time.”

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The combination of Bloomreach and Shopify has enabled us to do more than ‘traditional’ marketing. With real-time customer and product data coming together, we’ve unlocked so many possibilities in how we help brands personalize for the Asian markets.

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Erica Lau

Regional Digital Project Manager at Bluebell Group

Results

Thanks to Bloomreach and Shopify, Bluebell Group is now more effectively helping its brand partners in Asia. Instead of running generic campaigns and going through long IT cycles to get data, the team is saving time, launching and optimizing campaigns with ease, and getting the insights they need to drive real results: 

  • 2% of total ecommerce sales driven by Shopify-powered abandoned cart automation
  • 5.5% of total ecommerce revenue driven by gifting campaigns
  • 12-15% of total ecommerce sales driven by Electronic Direct Mail (EDM)

And Bluebell Group isn’t stopping here. The company plans to use the Shopify integration to unify product information with customer data, taking advantage of Bloomreach’s recommendation engine to create even more personalized campaigns. 

“There are still a lot of capabilities we’re in the process of exploring,” stated Lau. “We’re excited to see what kind of campaigns we take full advantage of these solutions.”

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