Adnams Southwold.
Delivering a personality-filled brand hub.
“The Adnams Southwold team wanted a distinctive design with top-drawer UX, a subscription option, and a third-party loyalty programme,” says Ruth Churchman, Account Manager at blubolt. “Another objective was for the new site to act as a hub for the entire Adnams Southwold brand.”
Craft brew: a distinctive design.
"Adnams completed a rebrand before starting the replatforming, so applied this to the new Shopify Plus site design," says Matt Richards, Head of Design at blubolt. "We delivered a fresh, streamlined and sophisticated theme design." Built on Shopify's new Online Store 2.0, the blubolt team utilised the 'sections everywhere' functionality over 20 times for maximum flexibility. As a result, the new website elevates the brand and widens Adnam's appeal in the marketplace.
Maximising multi-channel.
As a multi-channel retailer, the Adnams Southwold website is a hub for the whole brand. Consequently, the new Shopify Plus site had to incorporate everything from events, experiences, and accommodation to trade and eCommerce. "This is reflected on the homepage, which provides an overview of the whole business rather than being eCommerce first," says Hugo Burguete, Senior Frontend Developer at blubolt. "For example, the "Keep Exploring Adnams" slider and the large hero banner that the brand can fully customise in-house to feature different areas of the business."
eCommerce with in-house control & flexibility.
The 'Shop' page is essentially the eCommerce homepage for the brand. Again utilising 'sections everywhere', the blubolt team enabled as many settings as possible to give Adnams more in-house control. As a result, Adnams can easily change icons above text, colours, images and CTAs. The flexibility continues on the Collections page. "We set up double-width advert banners between products and a "Keep Exploring Adnams" banner that leads to other areas of Adnams' operations," says Pete Heyes, Developer at blubolt. "We also enabled the brand to hide out-of-stock products to improve the user experience."
Perfectly distilled features & functionality.
Lastly, the team set up collections and search with Boost Commerce, customer reviews with Okendo, custom page building with Shogun, donations with Pennies, and email with DotDigital.
Adnams on Shopify Plus: we’ll toast to that!
To conclude, we asked David Wyatt Hupton, Retail Sales & Marketing Manager at Adnams Southwold, what he thought of the new Shopify Plus site. “Shopify Plus has opened a number of avenues for us to take the next step in our retail journey, and the improved functionality has allowed us to introduce new and exciting features like click and collect from our retail stores. The process of moving with blubolt from our old to the new platform was seamless, with a well-executed project plan considering our design and functionality requirements. Shopify Plus has already improved the retail team’s productivity with its ease of use, and we look forward to introducing new and exciting features in the coming months!”
