Jewellery Focus April 2019 | Page 26

FEATURES A BOOMING GLOBAL MARKET example of how a jewellery brand and retailers can capitalise on the growing cross-border opportunity. The brand offers its global consumers a seamless localised online experience. This includes showing localised content - from welcome messages to presenting prices in local currencies, checkout in various languages and local taxes and duties calculation to its wide range of payment methods and attractive shipping offering. By implementing this change, the brand’s conversion rates from international visitors increased by more than 160% and its international revenue has increased by 367%, pushing the share of international sales each week to 25-40%. We know that the jewellery ‘‘ China is one of the biggest markets for jewellery in the world, and mobile is also its fastest growing channel, predicted to see a compound annual growth rate of 12% over the next four years ‘‘ 26 JEWELLERY FOCUS market continues to attract shoppers across the world. Fine jewellery is a special investment - it is timelessly chic and an individual item can hold a valuable meaning with the beholder, celebrating life cycles and achievements and various other memories. The purpose of jewellery hasn’t changed - but the way in which we shop for it has evolved over time. With the global demand for jewellery online increasing, it is vital that jewellery brands and retailers invest in a slick localised online experience. Those that do this well will be able to increase international sales and conversion rates, improve international customer satisfaction, as well as increasing the chances of customer loyalty - potentially even for generations to come. By Nir Debbi, co-founder and CRO, Global-e April 2019 | jewelleryfocus.co.uk