Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen
A 170-year-old linen maker used By the Numbers to find the segments that drove holiday revenue and lifted DTC sales 41% YoY.
The challenge
Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen has been weaving in Banbridge since 1854. The brand had healthy wholesale revenue but DTC was lumpy: strong at Christmas, quiet the rest of the year. Shopify's reports showed what sold but not who was buying, so seasonal campaigns went to the entire list and click-through was flat.
What changed
The RFM matrix in By the Numbers split the list into Champions, Loyalists, and gift-buyers who only purchased near Christmas. The gift-buyer cohort was pushed to Klaviyo as a Custom Audience three weeks before Black Friday, with a targeted holiday flow. Champions got an early-access pre-launch.
The outcome
DTC revenue grew 41% year-over-year. Email click-through more than doubled because the same blast was now three smaller, relevant ones. The team finished setting up By the Numbers in a single afternoon, without a data engineer.
“We've been weaving linen since 1854. By the Numbers is the first analytics tool that actually told us something we didn't already know.”
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