The objective
Our partnership with AG Barr all started when they asked for help simplifying and modernising the design, layout and structure of their website which had no less than SEVEN core audiences.
We needed to move AG Barr onto a better, more flexible CMS, that would allow them to create and share content for each of those seven core audiences.
The website had to offer stakeholders transparent, consistent and timely information about the business, while also meeting key regulatory requirements.
It had to be futureproof and able to grow alongside their business and their brands.
What we did
It all started with a restructure. We took those seven core audiences, mapped out their potential user journeys, segmented the content into those journeys and highlighted any content overlaps. This created a new and improved website structure with an extensive navigation that easily supports users to move through a large volume of content pages and a content hierarchy with several levels.
So now users could find what they were looking for, it was time to get them engaged and this is where our design team could really get creative!
With AG Barr’s mantra “we’re a branded business not a bank” ringing in their ears, our design team took the best bits from their branding and gave the new website some serious flavour. The end result is an award-winning website design that’s bright and bubbly, engaging thousands of users every month with AG Barr’s history, brand family and financial performance.
winner of the Umbraco Partner Website of the Year 2022.
finalist in the Corporate Communications Awards.
reduced bounce rate by 70% on mobile devices.
increased impressions on Google to over 500k per month.
Integrations with Workable and Investis
The AG Barr website is integrated directly with Investis to display information such as the latest share price, regulatory news and historical market performance while still maintaining a consistent user interface for investors.
For their recruitment team and potential employees, an integration with Workable via their API automatically generated vacancy listings on the website. This saves the recruitment team time spent repeating data entry across multiple platforms and it allows prospective employees to find the latest vacancies more easily, and in more than one place, increasing their discoverability.
Thank you for creating such an amazing website for us! It’s better than we could have imagined… you listened to what we wanted and gave us that and more!
Mags Cochrane
Head of Comms, AG Barr PLC