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8-market e-commerce localization for a DTC brand

A European direct-to-consumer fashion and lifestyle brand scaling across the EU

We localized 20k SKUs, the brand voice, the checkout, and every legal page across eight European markets — wiring transcreated campaign copy and a managed termbase into the same release as international SEO and paid marketing.

8
Markets launched
+212%
Non-domestic revenue
+1.9 pts
Conversion rate
+160%
New-locale organic traffic
−14%
Cart abandonment
−50%
Time-to-market

This case study is part of our Translation & Localization work — see how the same approach scales for other teams in our portfolio.

Challenge

What we walked into.

The brand had outgrown its single-language store. Eight EU markets needed to launch in time for the autumn campaign, with consistent brand voice, market-correct sizing, market-specific payment methods, and legal content that satisfied each local consumer-protection regime. The product catalogue alone — 20k SKUs across seasonal drops — was changing weekly, and earlier machine-translation attempts had produced flat, off-brand copy that the founders refused to ship.

What we did

The work, step by step.

  1. Transcreated brand voice, campaign copy and editorial content with senior copywriters in each market — same message, locally written, never literal

  2. Localized the 20k-SKU catalogue at scale via a CMS connector and a managed termbase for fabric, fit and material terms, so every product card read consistently in every language

  3. Ran native-language multilingual SEO keyword research per market and fed it directly into the team's category, collection, and landing-page strategy

  4. Localized the full purchase journey — cart, checkout, returns, customer service, and market-specific payment methods, shipping rules and tax content

  5. Localized every legal page (T&Cs, privacy, cookies, withdrawal rights) to the regulatory standard of each market, reviewed by in-country counsel

  6. End-to-end locale QA on live staging — pricing, currency, sizing, imagery, seasonal campaign timing, and RTL handling per market

Results

What it shipped.

Outcomes measured against the brief we agreed up front, not vanity metrics.

  • Markets launched
    8
  • Non-domestic revenue
    +212%
  • Conversion rate
    +1.9 pts
  • New-locale organic traffic
    +160%
  • Cart abandonment
    −14%
  • Time-to-market
    −50%

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