Partnering in the delivery of a leading eCommerce customer experience.
What we did
- Full site redesign and redevelopment focused on conversion
- Reviews platform implementation
- Customer loyalty programme – implementation and ongoing management
- Email marketing – strategy, implementation and ongoing management
- Product launch, sale and Black Friday planning and execution
- Reporting improvements to sharpen focus and direct growth activity
The Detail
This wasn't a migration project with a clear start and end – it was a turnaround. The challenge was diagnosing an underperforming operation, prioritising what to fix first, and building momentum while keeping the day-to-day trading running. Getting conversion moving required the redesign and the strategy to work together, not separately. Layering in loyalty and email on top of a stronger site meant that when customers arrived and converted, there was a system in place to keep them coming back.
The Results
Conversion rate has gone from 0.8% to 4.6% – almost six times where it started. Within 12 months, eCommerce had grown to account for 50% of Forty's total retail operation. The loyalty and email programme has grown to over 50,000 subscribers, driving consistent repeat sales and giving the business a direct channel it didn't have before. Forty are now actively expanding their focus across the UK and Europe, with online leading the way.

