Drapers - New Look to invest £30m in doubling online sales


The £30m funding can be invested in 4 key progress areas throughout New Look’s omnichannel and ecommerce capabilities, knowledge insights and loyalty programme.

This may embody the next developments: 

Knowledge:

  • Increasing New Look’s proprietary Enterprise Knowledge Platform to ship hyper-personalised procuring experiences. 
  • Leveraging real-time analytics to enhance provide chain velocity and effectivity, and anticipate buyer developments.

Optimising the app and on-line procuring journey:

  • Bettering search and product discovery to make it simpler for patrons to search out product.
  • Streamlining the checkout expertise and enhancing the client journey to drive gross sales progress.

Loyalty and engagement:

  • Use AI pushed insights to refine product growth.
  • Introducing new digital initiatives for its loyalty programme, Membership New Look, to supply members unique rewards, merchandise and promotions to boost engagement and loyalty.

Streamlining the client journey:

  • Optimising the shop community to underpin digital initiatives in chosen retail areas, strengething in-store digital engagement.
  • Draw on learnings from current upgrades to flagship shops in Manchester and Bluewater the place digital enhancements have delivered double digit like-for-like gross sales progress.  

The funding will permit New Look to work in the direction of doubling annual digital orders from £500m to £1bn by 2030 in addition to obtain 10% on-line market share by 2028.

New Look CEO Helen Connolly informed Drapers: “Utilising the information from [New Look’s Enterprise Data Platform] to focus on and curate the fitting provide for the client goes to assist us make [the customer] really feel like we’re their personalised stylist.”