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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 Interflora’s strong presence across France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and beyond — which includes an extensive network of florists — Interflora struggled to provide a seamless online customer experience. In terms of B2C retail, Interflora was still fairly digitally immature but was eager to put its first-ever site search bar on its website. However, because Interflora lacked the tools to understand product data and customer behavior and preferences effectively, it was difficult to personalize marketing efforts and improve customer engagement. These issues were compounded by the growing competition from both traditional florists and new online-only flower delivery services, which added pressure on Interflora to innovate and enhance its digital offerings.
Given the multilingual demands of Interflora’s operations across different countries, the search bar also needed to be agile in its contextual understanding and capable of effectively processing French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. Additionally, Interflora aimed to demonstrate the value of its new digital capabilities with clear, actionable metrics and was focused on measuring the impact of these changes on revenue — particularly through improvements in search and merchandising.
Pollard Banknote knew it needed to be a market leader in the digital space to provide innovative engagement strategies and elevated player experiences for its lottery clients. In particular, it needed the capabilities to identify active players and create customer journeys that adapt to meet their needs.
The company wanted a best-in-class solution that could harness customer data in real time to fuel targeted marketing campaigns and foster meaningful player engagement, which made Bloomreach Engagement the right choice to power its loyalty program.
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.
With a primary focus on ecommerce, Adlibris recognized the need to orchestrate personalized experiences for its customers. Knowing its audience on an individual level and building marketing campaigns to meet their needs was a priority for the brand, which is why Adlibris sought out a marketing technology that could consolidate, activate, and orchestrate its data to truly connect with its customers.
To create the personalized connections that Adlibris aimed for, the company needed marketing technology that could offer a complete view of the customer journey, along with the orchestration capabilities to make every touchpoint matter. That’s why Adlibris chose Bloomreach Engagement — our limitless solution provided the tools the brand needed to achieve its goals.
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.
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.
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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