“The technical knowledge and insight given to us by the Bloomreach team has been top notch. We really had the feeling that Bloomreach wanted this project to be as successful as we did here at N Brown.”
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The Challenge
UK’s leading online holiday package company, On The Beach offers fully customizable travel packages – mixing flights, hotels, dates, and more – giving customers complete flexibility. However, this makes personalized marketing a real challenge for On The Beach.
The Challenge
Hobbycraft‘s ecommerce journey hit a wall with their previous rule-based search solution that couldn’t handle the vibrant complexity of their 27,000+ SKU universe spanning dozens of creative verticals, resulting in:
The Challenge
TFG was aware of recent advancements in AI technology that would open up new ways to connect with customers. However, since conversational AI is still a new technology, TFG had concerns:
Despite its years of success offline, Wolseley confronted substantial challenges in its digital transformation journey, particularly in the realm of product discovery. Operating across diverse markets such as the UK and Ireland, the company’s vast array of 500,000 products — with 300,000 of them available digitally — presented a complex task in effectively targeting and serving its varied customer base. This complexity was further amplified by the need to cater to specific industry requirements for products within the plumbing, heating/cooling, building services, and pipe-fitting sectors.
The main factor that was hindering Wolseley in its digital transformation was its reliance on build-it-yourself search technology platforms like Solr, which made it harder to construct a perceptive search engine that understood the nuances of each industry. This limitation affected the precision of search results and also impeded the company’s ability to properly segment its customer base. The segmentation issue was not merely a technical problem but also a strategic one, significantly impacting how Wolseley engaged with and fulfilled the needs of its diverse customer base across different markets.
Additionally, Wolseley’s internal processes were heavily manual, with its small team of merchandisers bearing the brunt of the workload. As a result, the team couldn’t focus its energy on things like expanding the product catalog, increasing the online customer base, and meeting the growing demand for more personalized shopping experiences. Wolseley knew it needed to stop building its own search engine and transition to a sophisticated, AI-powered product discovery platform. This initiative became imperative to meet Wolseley’s biggest e-commerce challenges head-on and aimed to further transform its online shopping experience into one that was seamless, efficient, and deeply aligned with customer needs and preferences across segments.
“The technical knowledge and insight given to us by the Bloomreach team has been top notch. We really had the feeling that Bloomreach wanted this project to be as successful as we did here at N Brown.”
“The technical integration with Bloomreach was easy and seamless. Bloomreach offers enough tools and services to be that one consistent ‘brain’ behind the website operation. Bloomreach can help the customer journey be flawless across the entire web experience.”
“Having higher quality data allows you to communicate in a better way with your customers. The ultimate goal is to use the data we have collected to offer our customers the best possible experience.”
“When we first demoed Bloomreach Engagement, our tech team, data team, and marketing team were all really excited by the platform’s capabilities. It was very clear to us how easy the platform is to use and how we could leverage its features to achieve the goals of all of our stakeholders.”
Bensons for Beds needed a tool that would allow them to capture data for customers who had both been in their stores or on their website at various different points of their buying journey. To get there, they had to overcome key roadblocks:
Fragmented tech stack = inefficiencies across teams. Marketers, merchandisers, and developers had to work across disconnected tools, hindering specialization and scalability.
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