case study
Wolseley delivers more personalized and better integrated customer experiences with Adestra and Fresh Relevance
Find out how Wolseley recovers lost cart revenue and increases email open and click-through rates.
background
Wolseley is the world’s largest trade distributor of plumbing and heating products. They turned to Fresh Relevance and Adestra to create a more personalized experiences.
key integrations
introduction
Background
Wolseley is a leading supplier of building materials and the world’s largest plumbing, heating and cooling trade distributor. Wanting to create a more personalized and better integrated user experience across multiple touchpoints, Wolseley contacted Fresh Relevance and our partner Adestra for help.
results
Explore uplifts
200%
increase in open rate with production recommendations
2.9%
uplift in sales from cart abandonment emails
4.3%
average click-through rate with segmentation
solutions
Email marketing & segmentation
Using Fresh Relevance personalization tools such as Product Recommendations, Popover SmartBlocks, Segment Builder, and Cart Abandonment Emails, Wolseley has been able to deliver content that is relevant across their websites and email communications.
Working with Adestra, Wolseley segmented its database using customer personas. Then, using our partner’s email platform, they built templates that are mobile-responsive, allowing the retailer to create and maintain consistency across all brands and devices, but still have the ability to meet a broad range of content requirements. This work with Adestra has helped the trade specialist to develop its customer experience to become more personalized and better integrated.
Wolseley’s Digital Communications Manager, Steph Beard explains: “With Fresh Relevance, we present our customers with all the products we know will be of interest to them at the right time, based on what they have browsed or ordered in the past.”
Wolseley has achieved an average open rate increase from 28% to 45% using Automated Product Recommendations, and sending Cart Abandonment Emails has helped the retailer to achieve a 2.9% overall sales uplift.
With Fresh Relevance, we present our customers with all the products we know will beofinteresttothemattherighttime, based on what they have browsed or ordered in the past.
Steph Beard, Digital Communications Manager, Wolseley
solutions
Data capture popovers
Using Popover SmartBlocks that provide on-screen advice when a Wolseley customer adds products to an order helps to make sure customers purchase everything they need first time without having to come back and forth to the site. This also saves time and pressure for the Wolseley helpdesk.
Wolseley now has the ability to send fewer emails but achieve greater returns by using the Fresh Relevance Segment Builder to be increasingly targeted at the people they contact. This has resulted in a 39% open rate and a 4.3% average click-through rate.
