BRICO DEPÔT Romania, a DIY and home improvement supplies retailer, is part of the international Kingfisher Group alongside B&Q, Castorama, Koçtaş, Screwfix, and Good Home. The company aims to “Enable anyone and everyone to live in a better home.”
Setting priorities based on facts
The DIY market in Romania is not yet fully online. Even though e-commerce giants do exist, home improvement stores still retain a brick-and-mortar flair in the country. In this context, at the end of 2019, following the strategic direction of the Kingfisher Group, BRICO Romania decided to improve its e-commerce website so that it’s commercially impactful, fast, and cost-efficient. That meant making decisions based on measurable data and being able to schedule platform changes according to their sales or customer experience potential.
Turn bricodepot.ro into an online sales powerhouse and reach revenue quotas
We translated this goal into a set of discrete objectives: – Reduce on-site UX friction to increase conversions without increasing the marketing budget; – Align SEO with marketing objectives and ensure that on-page search engine optimizations were in line with current recommendations; – Establish what traffic volumes the infrastructure was able to handle; – Identify tools to track intermediate performance indicators better. The first step we took was to adapt our usual auditing methodology to BRICO’s unique needs. This meant several days’ worth of researching the local market and discussing with the client.
