“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:
As Isadore grew and scaled its ecommerce ambitions, it knew it had to remain committed to upholding sustainable practices every step of the way.
Isadore has many sustainability initiatives, most of which are focused on the production process. However, Isadore also wanted to find ways to lower its environmental impact through marketing automation (while meeting business goals at the same time).
In particular, the brand wanted to tackle ecommerce returns, which accounted for $890 billion worth of merchandise in 2024 alone. The more returns Isadore has to process, the more shipping and packaging they use, resulting in greater waste and emissions. Isadore was looking for an easy way to reduce the return rate and lower its environmental impact.
Driven by the need to enhance its product discovery strategy, the well-established brand needed to address several problems simultaneously. Marga Franklin, the Senior Manager of Global Digital Merchandising and Content at Burton, identified several key obstacles: irrelevant search results, limited control over merchandising tools, personalization, and a high dependence on IT.
From a search perspective, Burton lacked search features and algorithms that could return relevant results. Because of this, search optimization was too manual, leading the merchandising team to rely heavily on IT to change algorithms, synonyms, autosuggestions, and the look and feel of search and category pages. The biggest challenge here is that Burton is a global brand with over 33 different catalogs spread across regions, which made it impossible to tailor search globally for different localized languages and read analytics for quick insights.
At the same time, Burton’s merchandising team dealt with processes that had become too manual as the company continued to scale. A final key concern was the need for personalized experiences at the geographic level, particularly for specific rider segments like mountain riders, backcountry riders, or park riders. However, Burton struggled to deliver search results at the product page or category level tailored to these distinct customer types. All these roadblocks underscored the need for a more advanced AI-powered ecommerce search engine — a project championed by Franklin, who had previously experienced success with Bloomreach Discovery.
Unisport was using email marketing and communications to connect with customers but was missing the ability to segment its audience of customers and then take meaningful action with personalized marketing communications to those segments.
Not being able to separate subscribers based on their activity level with the brand — active, passive, dormant, etc. — meant that Unisport had to bring in customer data from a different platform, making email marketing a largely manual process.
Unisport needed to consolidate its customer data into a single solution that would allow it to segment its customer base and connect with customers to offer a limitless ecommerce experience.
Over the past 16 years, Crafter’s Companion has built an extremely loyal customer base via TV shopping channels and its own Crafter’s TV. Many customers spend hours watching tutorials and crafting sessions, fostering a community that feels more like a fan base.
However, Crafter’s Companion found that it was facing some challenges with its previous solution when trying to connect with its audience:
Not enough flexibility. With frequently updated content, time-sensitive offers, and new products with very short promotional windows, Crafter’s Companion needed a flexible setup that could handle rapid adjustments without disrupting the email workflow.
“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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