66ºNorth

66°NORTH are an Icelandic clothing manufacturer who have been protecting Icelanders from Iceland since 1926.

Client

66ºNorth

Sector

  • E-Commerce
  • Fashion

Tech

  • CommerceTools
  • Next.js
  • Kotlin
  • TypeScript
  • Prismic
  • Google Cloud Platform

Time frame

  • Initial release: 12 months
  • Ongoing engagement: 36 months+

Engagement

Build Precisely

Deliberate Team

  • Tom ScottCo-Founder
  • Siba FaddaDeliberate Alumni
  • Robert Precious-BirdsSenior Consultant

Problem

66°NORTH wanted to grow their e-commerce business exponentially. Whilst their existing e-commerce store offered all the functionality they needed it required a large amount of manual intervention for processing orders, allocating stock for fulfilment and other back-office activities. The store itself was built through a bespoke e-commerce plugin on top of an enterprise CMS solution which, whilst being extremely flexible, was ultimately labour intensive for managing product life cycles, marketing and merchandising. There were also concerns about scalability and the ease at which a new, premium, user experience could be introduced.

Solution

For a brand like 66°NORTH their public facing website is a differentiator and something that is required to stand out coupled with the ability to adapt and change quickly and easily as new requirements are discovered. To achieve this we recommended using a headless e-commerce engine, CommerceTools combined with a headless CMS tied together with a bespoke application built with the latest web technologies to deliver a quick, delightful website that could be fully customised to meet their needs.

66°North home page with the banner 'Waiting for summer since 1926', showing a model in a GORE-TEX jacket on a rainy street
66°North Jackets & Coats page on a phone, listing the red Tindur down jacket at £970
66°North product page on a phone for the red Tindur down jacket at £970, with colour and size options and an Add to bag button
66°North checkout page with shipping details and an order summary of five items totalling £3,080

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