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Ometria 2502 Fred Perry Case Study
Ometria 2502 Fred Perry Case Study
Ometria 2502 Fred Perry Case Study
18%
increase in 12-month customer
repeat rate
22%
improvement in customer
reactivation rate
24%
increase in overall
yearly revenue
The challenge
Fred Perry is an iconic fashion brand. Founded by the eponymous triple Wimbledon Champion in 1952,
it has a rich history and is recognizable across the world.
As a result of its strong brand identity, Fred Perry has always had healthy customer acquisition, which
has been its main focus. In recent years, however, it became apparent to the CRM team that they could
grow the brand further by targeting customer retention. By focusing on its VIP customers, the team
theorized that they could transform Fred Perry’s customer retention.
“It really started when the COVID-19 pandemic happened. In lockdown we had to find ways to engage
with our customers on an almost daily basis without sounding commercial,” said Marni Dasanjh, Head
of Social Commerce at Fred Perry. “We wanted this engagement to be very organic by using real Fred
Perry fans and making the shirt the hero. By using these images and the stories we can tell about the
shirts, we can create a deeper connection between our customers and Fred Perry.”
As part of this new focus, Fred Perry wanted to go on a journey to really understand its customers,
particularly those VIP customers that buy multiple times. That’s where Ometria and its Retail Success
Model came in.
Solution
Ometria’s Retail Success team performed an audit of Fred Perry’s performance and compared it to
industry benchmarks. By combining this audit with the Fred Perry team’s commercial goals, the Retail
Success team was able to produce a customized Marketing Action Plan for Fred Perry. The plan took
into account the importance of preserving Fred Perry’s brand value while allowing the team to see
commercial results.
“The marketing plan really brought into focus what we needed to do. Before this, our approach was
more about spread-betting, trying lots of things to see what worked” said Marni. “But Ometria’s Retail
Success team showed us that if we improved certain metrics, the commercial gains we would see would
be significant.”
The Ometria team demonstrated how various marketing campaigns could improve different metrics.
For example, how increasing active customer and subscriber rates by just 5% could have a massive
impact on customer retention. These milestones gave Fred Perry clear objectives on how to improve
customer retention that the whole business could get behind.
“We set up weekly project meetings across the business to make sure we were driving the plan forward.”
said Marni. “The Ometria team were brilliant at helping us champion this plan internally, and also
reassuring us that if we couldn’t see the benefit in the short term, there was evidence in the data
pointing to long-term success. It’s changed the way we look at retention overall and helped the
The Fred Perry team acted on the recommendations from Ometria and looked to build new automation
campaigns and optimize many of its existing automations. The team used the Ometria platform to
restructure their campaigns to target customers based on their customer lifecycle stage. This included
changing the customer win-back campaigns to target customers that were identified as lapsed or at-
On top of this, the team is able to communicate to VIP customers whenever there is an event at their
local store, allowing them to align the online and offline experience.
Fred Perry is also making use of Ometria’s social sync features. These allow retailers to build lookalike
audiences on Facebook/Meta and retarget customers across these networks. The team are beginning
to use these social networks to run welcome campaigns as well as lapsed customer campaigns.
The Fred Perry team operates across six languages and 14 countries, each of which requires targeted
and localized campaigns, crafted carefully to embody the Fred Perry brand. All of these campaigns are
“We appreciate the freedom and visibility that we get with the Ometria platform, as well as how far we
are able to segment our customer base.” said Rita Cruz, Digital Marketing Executive at Fred Perry.
“Building campaigns is easy and intuitive in Ometria, and we are easily able to build some really
The results
Fred Perry has been able to increase its 12-month customer repeat rate by 18%. Furthermore, customer
reactivation rate has improved by 22%. All of which is contributing to an overall yearly revenue increase
of 24%.
“The insight we gained from the Retail Success Model really is gold dust to us. We’ve been able to use
the recommendations the Ometria team gave us and unite the business around it. The commercial
results we’re seeing are really pleasing to see, and show that we are on the right track.”
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