ACCOR — Retail

The retail arm of the group programme: turning in-property retail from a gift shop into a brand experience guests actually buy from.

Creative Production

  • 2.7X Retail revenue per property
  • 41% Higher attachment rate
  • 12 Properties in first rollout

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Hospitality & Travel, Fashion & Retail

Creative Production

10 weeks, piloted across 12 properties

In-property, Shopify, CRM

Make in-property retail part of the stay rather than an afterthought

The Challenge

A Gift Shop in a Design Hotel

Guests were staying in carefully considered properties and walking past retail that felt like an airport concession.

Retail was treated as ancillary revenue rather than part of the experience, so it was merchandised generically and performed accordingly. Nothing connected what a guest liked about the property to what was on the shelf.

The Strategy

Why We Went This Direction

We merchandised the stay, not the category.

Retail was rebuilt around what guests already respond to in the property — the products in the room, the materials, the local makers. That made the offer specific to each property while staying inside one group system, and it turned browsing into buying.
  • Brand Repositioning
  • Conversion-Focused Web Design
  • Paid Acquisition
  • Retention Through Subscription Messaging

Execution

What We Actually Did

  1. Retail Concept

    Merchandising built from what guests already encounter in the property.

  2. Property Adaptation

    One system, adapted per property without a bespoke design each time.

  3. Continuity to Online

    The same range purchasable after checkout, so the stay extends.

  4. Attachment Measurement

    Retail measured against occupancy, not in isolation.

  • Brand Repositioning
  • Conversion-Focused Web Design
  • Paid Acquisition
  • Retention Through Subscription Messaging

The Impact, Quantified

Performance You Can Measure

Metric Before After
Retail revenue per property Baseline 2.7x
Attachment rate Baseline 41% higher
Properties live 0 12

The Work, As It Happened

Execution You Can See

(Recommended visuals: before/after homepage screenshots, sample paid ad creative, revenue growth graph, funnel conversion chart)

In Their Words

What clients say when we're not in the room.

  • “Koncept rebuilt our entire online presence in under three months, and our online orders have nearly quadrupled since. They think like a partner, not a vendor.”

    Rachel Simmonds

    Founder, Northfield Organics

  • “What stood out was how few people we had to talk to get things done. One team, one point of contact, and the work still felt senior at every step.”

    James Whitfield

    Marketing Director, Harrow & Vale Properties

  • “We've worked with agencies twice their size that couldn't move this fast without breaking something. Koncept hasn't dropped a ball yet.”

    Sarah Delgado

    VP Marketing, Vantera Health Clinics

  • “Their strategy work alone justified the engagement. The creative and performance marketing that followed just compounded it.”

    Michael Chen

    CEO, Loopline Technologies

  • “Time zones were never an issue. It genuinely felt like they were down the hall, even with a twelve-hour difference.”

    Olivia Bennett

    Head of Brand, Coastal & Co.