business systems integration
Hawkshead -bringing life back to e-Commerce
Customer Background
Established around 25 years ago in the Lake District, Hawkshead is a multi-channel business supporting Retail Stores, Concessions, Mail Order and the Internet. Positioned as an Outdoor Adventure and Lifestyle clothing brand, Hawkshead has a broad customer base that reaches both domestic and international markets.
Challenge
Whilst Hawkshead had operated an e-Commerce channel for some years, the site was becoming old and out of date in terms of its functionality, navigation and user-experience.

In essence, Hawkshead required an e-Commerce facility that could function as an extension to their high street presence delivering a simple and efficient user experience. The development of the project looked into two areas of improvement:

Process: Ability to manage, maintain/update easily and be fully integrated and automated with their back-office applications

Customer: Maintain brand presence and communicate the values of Hawkshead. Simple and straightforward navigation, buying and payment process
 

Project Benefits
 
A strategic e-Commerce platform delivering:-

  • Improved customer service and satisfaction through collaborative tools
  • Increased revenue through advanced selling techniques
  • Maintenance and update of seasonal catalogues
  • Business User Management
  • Measurable return on investment
  • New customer acquisition through personalised marketing programmes
  • Increased customer conversion rates through incentives taiored to the individual
  • Customer retention through web analytics and communication programmes
  • Full integration with the line of business systems
  • Staging environment to review and deploy both assets and content before propagation to the production environment