Premium lifestyle brand Gant's cool, sporty look is rooted in the East Coast Ivy look and cut through with a dash of European elegance. SS11 saw some exciting new developments for the brand, including a new Gant Rugger collection and Michael Bastian's first womenswear collaboration.
Improvements to the website needed to reflect the look of the new SS11 collection and provide a showcase for Gant's exciting new ranges. The Rugger page on the site needed to be revamped, and a sales platform for Michael Bastian's womenswear range had to be developed. On top of this, Gant wanted to simplify the checkout process in order to reduce checkout abandonment rate and increase their conversion rate.
drivebusiness created a fresh look for the site and improved the user journey.
The eCommerce development & design teams worked closely with Gant to review the user journey through the site and successfully launch the SS11 collection online. Consumers can now have a more interactive experience when they visit the Gant UK site.
We also overhauled the checkout design, ensuring that the user journey and buying process remained intuitive, reassuring and engrossing from first to last click, and added improvements to the analytics.
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Improvements to the customer journey include the introduction of detailed search filters on all category pages, the addition of dropdown menus to aid navigation, a tidier product page layout to keep all key information above the fold and the newly launched ‘Shop the Look’, giving consumers a detailed style guide to the season trends. A further enhancement to the site was the introduction of the Feefo product rating tool, allowing shoppers to rate their purchases, as well as read detailed reviews from fellow consumers.
In addition to the developments on the Gant UK site, drivebusiness has reskinned the Rugger and Michael Bastian pages, giving each a bespoke style to reflect the new collections from these designers and promote the introduction of Michael Bastian’s new Women’s collection. A video about the Rugger brand has been added to further inform consumers about the designer’s collection.
A 'Quick checkout', was designed, which offers new customers the option of creating an account at the end of a purchase in order to simplify further purchases.
Design improvements to the checkout included a progress bar, a basket summary added to all the pages so customers are constantly aware of what they are buying, and a 'closed' checkout, with distractions such as brand campaigns removed in order to keep customers focused on completing a purchase.
For analytical purposes we added tidier URLs in the checkout process to improve the tracking of different stages.
The SS11 collection was successfully launched in January 2011 and the conversion rate increased 36% compared with the Autumn Winter 2010 site re-fresh.
In the month since the new checkout was executed, the abandonment rate has halved. Additionally, the conversion rate has risen, particularly with new customers, who account for the majority of Gant's traffic.

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