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Personalizing Beauty at Scale: How Matas Grew Attributable Sales by 36% with Personalized Recommendations

Case Study

Personalizing Beauty at Scale: How Matas Grew Attributable Sales by 36% with Personalized Recommendations

Segment

Health, Beauty & Wellness Retail

Objective

Deliver a best-in-class customer experience, increase online sales, and drive operational efficiency at scale

Product
RecommendTM

The Results

Matas saw impressive YoY gains after expanding personalization across web, mobile, and email:

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YoY growth in attributable sales
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increase in orders via recommendations
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increase in items sold via recommendations
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Growth in total site views
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Clicks on recommendations, with improved CTR (1.6%)

These results highlight not just growing shopper engagement, but also the effectiveness of real-time personalization in driving revenue.

The Client

Established in 1949, Matas is Denmark’s premier health and beauty retailer. With over 250 stores and Denmark’s second-most-visited ecommerce site, Matas serves millions of customers through both its physical network and robust digital presence. In 2023, Matas expanded its regional footprint by acquiring KICKS, a major beauty retailer across Sweden, Norway, and Finland.

With personalization playing a pivotal role in customer engagement, Matas sought to create a seamless, data-driven experience across all channels—web, mobile, and email. Their long-standing partnership with Ada Global, dating back to 2018, laid the foundation for a phased, scalable personalization program that continues to evolve.

Opportunity

Matas wasn’t looking for just another recommendations engine—they wanted a best-of-breed personalization layer that could unify customer experiences across touchpoints and deliver results at scale. Key business objectives included:

  1. Creating a coherent and personalized CX across channels
  2. Driving online profitability and engagement
  3. Ensuring operational efficiency with fast time-to-market

The Solutions

1 Web & Mobile Personalization

Across home, category, search, item, add-to-cart, and cart/checkout pages, Matas deployed hyper-relevant product recommendations that mirrored campaign messaging and user context.

Key strategies included:

Seamless cross-selling during Add-to-Cart

(For e.g., “More amazing skincare products” or “Bestsellers from the same brand”)

Cart page cross-sells

(For e.g., “Other customers also bought” or “Discounts on your favourite brands”)

Smart replenishment

(For e.g., “Buy again?” and “Your previous purchases”)

2 Email Personalization

Across home, category, search, item, add-to-cart, and cart/checkout pages, Matas deployed hyper-relevant product recommendations that mirrored campaign messaging and user context.

Matas added recommendations to all email journeys and campaigns. With both OOTB strategies and tailored algorithms, marketers could:

  • Personalize emails at scale using customer data and behavior
  • Match product campaigns to user interests
  • Trigger replenishment reminders and promote subscription products
  • Maintain brand tone and design consistency without sacrificing relevance

Advanced merchandising and configuration controls gave Matas full autonomy to manage everything in-house—no dev cycles needed.

3 Additional use cases reflect the advanced maturity of Matas’ personalization strategy:

  • Landing Pages & Campaign Pages: These are fully automated and personalized to match promotional campaigns with hyper-relevant product assortments at scale, enabling rapid time-to-market.
  • Subscribed/Auto-Replenishment Products: De-boosting strategies are intelligently applied to help customers discover new products beyond their routine purchases, adding a layer of thoughtful curation.
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“All I care about is relevance on the customer’s terms—full transparency and real control. Ada Global helps us make every interaction meaningful without compromising trust or customer experience.”

Peter Hestbaek
SVP of Digital Sales
Matas

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Pan Asian Health & Beauty Retailer Shrinks OOS by 60%

Case Study

Pan Asian Health & Beauty Retailer Shrinks OOS by 60%

Segment

Health, Personal Care, Beauty & Baby Care Products

Challenge

Rising Trend of out-of-Stock and Overstock Issues across Stores

Product Used

The Results

ADA Global’s Order Right helped the client transform from static and inefficient to ultra-granular and intelligent replenishment, thereby unlocking business benefits including:

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Reduction in Out-of-Stock Instances
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Improvement in Inventory Turnover
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Reduction in Inventory Investment

The Client

The client is a pan-Asian health, beauty, and wellness retailer. It has over 1100 stores spread across 13 countries providing a wide range of healthcare, beauty care, personal care, and baby care products.

The Challenge

The client is a pan-Asian health, beauty, and wellness retailer. It has over 1100 stores spread across 13 countries providing a wide range of healthcare, beauty care, personal care, and baby care products.

  • Product Variety and Seasonality: The existing replenishment process struggled with maintaining stock levels, leading to frequent out-of-stock situations for some products and excessive inventory for others.
  • Promotional Impact: Post-season inventory often piled up following promotional campaigns.
  • Global Supply Chain Complexities: Dependence on multiple suppliers across global supply chains caused significant lead time variances, resulting in out-of-stock issues, particularly during peak seasons.
  • Increasing inventory costs: In its endeavor to achieve high availability, the client witnessed a significant increasing trend in inventory investments.

The client was looking to transform their replenishment framework from static and one-size-fits-all to dynamic and localized. Additionally, they were looking for a solution that could improve planning efficiency, reducing the burden on teams to plan granular replenishment.

The Solution

1 Hyperlocal Replenishment with Order Right

ADA Global’s Order Right perfectly met the client’s need for an ultra-granular, robust, and adaptive replenishment ordering system. Order Right utilizes a suite of custom machine learning algorithms that adjust to demand and supply chain dynamics at a hyperlocal level, accounting for both increases and shifts in demand. Its robust framework swiftly addresses retail data challenges such as sparse data, outliers, and noise, allowing your teams to focus on business without worrying about data interventions.

2 Unlocking Retail Excellence with Hyperlocal Precision and Dynamic Inventory Management

ADA Global’s Order Right helped the client to automate and optimize replenishment schedules for ~500 categories across all store locations in 13+ geographies via a single integrated interface. Here are the key highlights of the solution:

Ultra-Granular Multi-Variate ML-Based Forecasting

With Order Right, the client transitioned from manual, Excel-based forecasting reliant on historical sales to multivariate, ML-based forecasting that accounts for channel, category, and store-specific nuances at the hyperlocal level. This new approach incorporates factors such as product lifecycle, promotions, holidays, and events. As a result, demand planners achieved increased forecasting accuracy across product locations, leading to substantial downstream benefits.

Auto-Optimization for Promotional Effects

Previously, the client relied heavily on manual interventions to adjust for demand fluctuations caused by promotions. This often led to sub-optimal outcomes, resulting in excess stock of some products and out-of-stock situations for others within the same category. With Order Right, the client transitioned to automatic adjustments of product orders to counter promotional effects, significantly reducing inventory imbalances.

Modeling Supply Chain Constraints

The client heavily relied on global suppliers for its products, so any disruptions in the supply chain often came as a surprise, causing teams to scramble to manage the situation and devise tactics to protect the business. With Order, the client transitioned from a static, contract-based supply chain approach to dynamic modeling. Now, the client can optimize replenishment plans using self-learning models that account for key constraints such as lead times, pending orders, expiry dates, minimum order quantities, ordering frequency, and minimum display quantities. This ensures that replenishment plans dynamically adjust to supply chain constraints, resulting in greater accuracy and less crisis management.

Effortlessly Leveraging Retail Data

Order Right’s robust demand forecasting framework helped demand planners circumvent data challenges such as sparse data, noisy data, outliers, and new product introductions effortlessly with custom retail-tuned algorithms. This significantly reduced the efforts required by the team to get quality data.

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How a US-based Retailer of Skin Care Devices Achieved 24% Increase in Revenue Per Session with ADA Global’s EngageTM

Case Study

How a US-based Retailer of Skin Care Devices Achieved 24% Increase in Revenue Per Session with ADA Global’s EngageTM

Segment

Beauty & Wellness

Challenge

The client wanted to maximize revenue per session by optimizing home page content tiles for different customer segments.

Product Used

The Results

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The Client

The client’s mission is to beautifully transform skin through its award-winning devices, which cleanse skin six times better than hands. Hand-assembled at its headquarters, the devices are distributed through prestige retailers, dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons, spas and online at the client’s own ecommerce website.

The Director of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing for the client is in charge of managing customer website experiences to achieve the direct-to-consumer revenue goals for the business. In addition to optimizing traffic, conversion and revenue, the team manages all content, paid media channels, affiliates, search engine optimization and search engine marketing as well as retargeting, email and loyalty programs.

For the client, engaging and educating the new user is a critical objective for the website. When new visitors have their first experience with the brand on the website, they want the site to represent the “knowledge hub of the brand” so they can learn everything—from which device is right for them to what skin care products and brush heads pair best with their chosen device.

Old Way

1 Multiple messages meet multiple needs

The client’s mission is to beautifully transform skin through its award-winning devices, which cleanse skin six times better than hands. Hand-assembled at its headquarters, the devices are distributed through prestige retailers, dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons, spas and online at the client’s own ecommerce website.

The Director of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing for the client is in charge of managing customer website experiences to achieve the direct-to-consumer revenue goals for the business. In addition to optimizing traffic, conversion and revenue, the team manages all content, paid media channels, affiliates, search engine optimization and search engine marketing as well as retargeting, email and loyalty programs.

For the client, engaging and educating the new user is a critical objective for the website. When new visitors have their first experience with the brand on the website, they want the site to represent the “knowledge hub of the brand” so they can learn everything—from which device is right for them to what skin care products and brush heads pair best with their chosen device.

New Way

1 Content and Context Motivate Visitors through the purchase funnel

Having learned about ADA Global through existing partnerships with sister brands, the client decided to use the Engage™ solution to segment audiences, and test and optimize content tiles against key metrics—click through rate and revenue per session.

“Everyone will always have an opinion, but our job is to move from opinions to data-based decisions that show what customers are gravitating toward,” said the client.

“Clickthrough rate may be a function of the creative; revenue per session may be a function of the right message and content. A lot of times we don’t know, and that’s why it’s critical to always be testing.”

Engage™ maps individual shopper behavior against advanced targeting and audience segmentation tools so that marketers can deliver highly personalized campaigns with relevant content. Its ability to automatically target each segment, optimize the most effective creative for that segment, then pass the data back to the business to inform creative decisions for the next round of campaigns saves valuable time and eliminates the need to run hundreds of manual A/B tests to get content personalization right.

After implementing EngageTM, the client has seen significant success in key metrics for users that interact with its home page content tiles, such as a 20 percent increase in clickthrough rate and a 24 percent increase in revenue per session, while also seeing a 35 percent increase in overall clicks.

“EngageTM gave us information on what messages and creative were resonating with customers. We tested 12-15 pieces of content for each customer segment and found two that resonated very well: ‘Find your Product’, which linked visitors to an interactive skin quiz recommendation engine, and a tile with the message ‘Great Skin Starts Here,’ which highlighted our key skin care benefits to our users,” said the client.

With plans to continue testing current content “winners” against new content, the client looks forward to uncovering more learnings and insight from using EngageTM.

“The fact that I can keep testing content and justify why I’m showing it is amazing! I’m confident that these data-driven decisions are helping to move visitors efficiently through the purchase funnel,” they said.

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“The fact that I can keep testing content and justify why I’m showing it is amazing! I’m confident that these data-driven decisions are helping to move visitors efficiently through the purchase funnel.”

Director of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing

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Época Cosmeticos Pivots to Individualized Shopper Experiences, Improves SEO with Personalized Search, Content and Recommendations

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Época Cosmeticos Pivots to Individualized Shopper Experiences, Improves SEO with Personalized Search, Content and Recommendations

The Results

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The Client

Época Cosméticos is among the  largest beauty and cosmetics retailers in Brazil, with over 16,000 SKUs of more than 740 brands.

The Challenge

Época Cosméticos had aggressive growth plans but was unable to deliver results with legacy technologies.
They sought ADA Global’s help to:

  • Ensure that shoppers find what they are looking for from 16,000+ SKUs
  • Go beyond segments and deliver individualized, real-time experiences
  • Reduce spends on customer acquisition through inorganic PPC

Move from Segmentation to 1:1 Personalization at Every Customer Touchpoint

1 Complete, unified commerce personalization

Connect all digital path-to-purchase touchpoints — search, navigation, recommendations, and content — to deliver one personal experience that supports the complete customer journey.

2 Most comprehensive library of 150+ personalization strategies

Accelerate time to market with our strategy library that ranges from wisdom of the crowd and collaborative filtering approaches to deep learning visual discovery and NLP approaches.

3 Advanced merchandising

Cross-sell and upsell seamlessly by leveraging product attributes and compatibility data. Create automated recommendations and bundles that take the load off your merchandisers.

4 Algorithmic decisioning for every user with real-time context

Leverage AI to detect each shopper’s stage in the buying process, and combine it with their affinities to pick the best strategy that delivers the most relevant 1:1 experience while meeting your revenue or engagement goals.

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Move from Segmentation to 1:1 Personalization at Every Customer Touchpoint

ADA Global helps us understand our customers better because we have all our site’s behavioral information on a single platform — something that allows us to analyze and act to further improve the experience according to their evolving needs.

U/X Coordinator
Época Cosméticos

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