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February 2010

Build your own customised Rotary Watch!

We are very proud to have helped Rotary Watches show off their watchmaking innovation credentials by designing and developing their “Build your own watch” Flash application. In 6 quick steps, the application allows visitors to choose their own case style, case colour, bezel, dial and strap; creating their own perfect watch.

January 2010

Concha y Toro – new client win

Concha y Toro is the largest producer of wines from Latin America and a global winemaking leader. In 2010, they wish to promote their fine wine brands and have commissioned Obergine design and develop a marketing website to help promote the fine wine brands.New Oxfordshire Science Festival launched

As proud sponsors of the Oxfordshire Science Festival, we are delighted to have designed and developed a new website for the festival in March! The new website integrates OSF’s social media channels; acting as a one stop shop for all event information.

December 2009

Obergine appointed by Wats.on Consultancy

We are enormously proud to have been appointed the official web design and digital marketing agency to Oxford’s leading science and technology events management company - Wats.on Consultancy. Our first task is to re-launch the Wats.on brand with a new website...

Rotary Watches Christmas marketing and USA market launch

December has proved to be one of our busiest months in 2009! Following the launch of Rotary’s new global e-commerce website in October, we needed to put together an aggressive multi-channel digital marketing campaign to create brand awareness and drive sales within the USA and internationally. The online marketing campaign elements included email marketing, paid search marketing, banner advertising and natural search marketing initiatives that included the development of Google Product Search feeds for the UK, USA and German markets.

We are recruiting talented web developers

If you are a savvy and talented web developer that wants to join Oxford’s leading web design and digital marketing agency then please apply and send us your CV, examples of your work, and tell us a little bit more about yourself!

November 2009

New Chris Lewis Fire & Security website goes live

As the south of England’s leading security and fire system experts, Chris Lewis Fire & Security needed a website that reflected their heritage, expertise, industrial experience, modernity and high technology focus that empowered the company to organise and take ownership of their vast amount of content, case studies, manuals and white papers.

Obergine put in place a content managed solution and worked closely with Chris Lewis Fire & Security on an updated information architecture for the new website that was search engine optimised, easy to navigate and highly usable.

The Career Boutique goes to market

Following a lengthy brand identity development exercise, Obergine created a new logo and colour palette for The Career Boutique that was subsequently applied to the new website, emails, business cards, brochures, folders and print document templates.

October 2009

Rotary Watches launch multi-lingual and multi-currency e-commerce site for the global market

Just in time for the Christmas rush, Obergine has completed the web design and development of an e-commerce website for Rotary Watches that serves the US, European and global markets. The website is fully integrated with Rotary Watches’ back-end system to allow automated transfer of product and order data.

September 2009

Obergine are 3 years old and celebrating with style!

Appropriately enough, we have been celebrating Obergine’s third birthday by winning 3 new contracts this month… We will be:

• Designing and developing a new content-managed website for the world leader in newspaper printing systems – manroland (one third of all newspapers printed worldwide are printed on manroland printers!)
• Providing brand identity consultancy and print/web design services for Oxford entrepreneur Katherine Dales' newest venture – The Career Boutique
• Putting in place a social media marketing strategy for the 2010 Oxfordshire Science Festival that will include a website redesign, iPhone application development and mobile marketing channel integration

The Speed Dating company that virtually does it all

We have also created a virtual gift facility for daters with the UK’s favourite speed dating company – Slow Dating. Gifts are paid for quickly, easily and safely as micro-payments via the customer's mobile phone.

August 2009

Oxford's premier shopping centre – The Westgate Centre launches new website

The new Westgate Shopping Centre website integrates Oxford's iconic skyline with the Westgate Centre's offline marketing to provide all the information that Oxford's shoppers need to spend their pennies easily.

Sales conference website launched for 3

We have been supporting 3's Q4 2009 sales conference - "You're changing mobile forever" - with a conference website. The website allowed employees to register for the event and after the event browse a gallery of videos and photos.

July 2009

Langdale's traditional Essence of Cinnamon has been rediscovered

For over 250 years, Langdale’s Essence of Cinnamon has been renowned for it's warming aromatic qualities and has been believed in by generations of families as protection against a wide variety of illnesses.

As part of the relaunch Obergine has designed and built a content-managed e-commerce website that enable customers to learn more about Langdale’s Essence of Cinnamon, purchase online or find their local Langdale’s stockist via a Google integrated post code search.

Chris Lewis Fire & Security chooses Obergine

Obergine has been commissioned to design, develop and host a new content-managed website for one of the South of England’s leading security and fire safety solution experts – Chris Lewis Fire & Security.

June 2009

E-commerce website launch for master English clockmakers – J & T Windmills

J & T Windmills needed an e-commerce website that communicated their 300 years of watch making expertise whilst reflecting the beauty of their classically designed wrist and pocket watches. Learn about the history of J & T Windmills and browse their collection of classic English gold and silver mechanical watches.

May 2009

Creating partner engagement for McAfee

We are delighted to have designed and built a multi-language email for McAfee's Partner Rewards incentive programme to help promote the programme benefits and drive sign-up.

New website launched for the European Society of Cell & Gene Therapy (ESGCT)

The new ESGCT site provides a bright and welcoming view of ESGCT, and offers a raft of useful resources, and related news and events. Members can also gain access to a worldwide network of genetic scientists and bodies, as well as viewing job and study opportunities.

April 2009

New client wins - Numerical Algorithms Group and Manroland!

Obergine have the privilege of designing a new website for the prestigous Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). The new website will communicate their services and values in a modern and engaging way.

Manroland - the world's leader in newspaper printing systems - have engaged Obergine to provide regular online marketing and website maintenance services.

March 2009

"Stunning timepieces" email campaign for new Rotary brands

To announce the launch of the new Aquaspeed, Rocks, Editions and Les Originales – Rotary Watches sent over 25,000 emails.

With open rates in excess of 20% and clickthrough rates of 8%, the "Stunning timepieces" email campaign exceeded industry averages and created significant awareness of the new brands.

New Westgate Centre website

We have been appointed by Capital Shopping Centres to create a website for the shopping centre at the heart of Oxford – the Westgate Centre. The website will communicate the shops and facilities that the Westgate Centre has to offer with a design that embraces the heritage of Oxford.

January 2009

Get hands-on with the Oxfordshire Science Festival

The Oxfordshire Science Festival starts with the Science in your World launch event on 28th February and runs through to 15th March. You can now search for events that interest you based on age range, scientific area or location.

Hi Health website is launched

The new Hi Health website introduces the new healthcare marketing paradigm and illustrates how Hi Health HRM solutions successfully satisfy both consumer and HCP needs.

Langdales warm to new web presence

Obergine are happy to be been selected to provide an e-commerce solution for the Langdales Essence of Cinnamon product.

Langdales has been naturally warming cold and chilly consumers since 1745, and we are delighted to help spread the warmth online.

ESGCT looks for winning formula

The European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) have chosen Obergine to design their new integrated web site.

As well as giving the site a creative and technical overhaul, the project will enable visitors to signup and renew memberships online, and allow the ESGCT to manage their members and annual conference from one central location.

December 2008

Rotary watches launches 2d barcodes

Rotary watches have created their first QR barcode to provide an alternative method of communicating with their customers. The initial barcode provides a link to the Rotary Watches Heritage page and can be read by mobile phones and PDAs.

The Oxfordshire Science Festival brings science into your world

The Oxfordshire Science Festival aims to engage and enthuse people about science by making it easily accessible.

The new 2009 Oxfordshire Science Festival website initally focuses on generating interest and sponsorship, and in the run up to the festival will be enhanced to provide a searchable events database.

November 2008

The Subaru World Rally Team appoint Obergine as their digital agency

After winning a 4-way pitch, Obergine has been appointed as the official digital agency of the Subaru World Rally Team for the next 3 years. Our first task is to design and build the new SWRT.com website ahead of Rally Ireland in January 2009. The new website will establish the foundation for the next generation of SWRT’s digital activities.

Congratulations to the UK's best event management company

We were delighted to send an email newsletter announcing the crowning of Corporate Innovations as the "Best Event Team" at the Eventia awards.

Our congratulations again to the team at Corporate Innovations!

October 2008

New business wins

Obergine have been engaged as the digital agency for the 2009 Oxfordshire Science Festival. Phase 1 focuses on creating website to attract sponsorship and collect email addresses for email campaigns in the run up to the festival.

European Electronique, IT suppliers to the public sector and education, have appointed Obergine to scope their new multi-lingual and multi-currency retail and B2B e-commerce platforms.

Rotary Watches make it easier for retailers in tough times

We have created a Stockists Locator for Rotary Watches that allows people to easily find retailers that stock Rotary Watches within in their area. By combining map data from Microsoft Virtual Earth with postcodes submitted on the Rotary Watches website, it was possible to display maps of retailers using Rotary Watches branding.

September 2008

New Rotary Watches product ranges and Unipart Supply Chain Solutions go to market

We have launched a redesigned Rotary Watches website to promote the new product ranges of Rocks, Editions and Precious Metals. The modular website design ensures that the brand values for each product range are uniquely expressed.

The new content-managed Unipart Supply Chain Solutions microsite has been designed to promote the 5 spheres of expertise offered by Uniparts' Supply Chain Solution Solutions division and reflect the new Unipart corporate brand guidelines.

And we ran a successful Christmas email campaign for the Jam Factory that generated click through rates in excess of 20% and many Christmas bookings.

August 2008

A busy month for email marketing

We have undertaken 2 email marketing campaigns for Corporate Innovations and a dealer recruitment campaign for Unipart's Neo-Trac car tracker. All 3 campaigns achieved very positive results with click through rates in excess of 5%.

These email campaigns plus the launch of 2 event microsites has certainly kept the team busy over the summer.

July 2008

Sarah Eberle website launched

Sarah Eberle is the UK's leading landscape designer - having won 8 Royal Horticultural Society gold medals and 2 innovation medals at Hampton Court. The new Sarah Eberle website showcases her portfolio and explains how she designs her award-winning gardens and landscapes.

June 2008

Booming business drives Oxford office expansion

We are delighted to announce that we have just doubled the size of our Oxford office. Recent client wins of Rotary Watches and additional e-commerce consultancy and development activities with Unipart and Google Analytics consultancy with James Villa Holidays have encouraged this expansion and recruitment drive.

May 2008

Neo-Trac site launched

Neo-Trac is a sophisticated vehicle tracking and safety solution, distributed within the UK by Unipart. Obergine has developed a secure ecommerce platform to enable customers to purchase Neo-Trac online.

Learn more about the Neo-Trac e-commerce project.

March 2008

A new spring in our step with some pitch success

We are delighted to announce that we have just won 2 website pitches and will be providing web design and development services for a major FMCG brand re-launch and a multi-lingual corporate website.

February 2008

Email marketing campaign news

• To celebrate the launch of the new aarght! e-commerce and art community website, we delivered an email marketing campaign that received over 18% of recipients clicking through to the website
• We also designed and delivered a new email campaign for Slow Dating that increased site traffic levels by 35% and online sales by 25%

January 2008

Latest digital project news

• We have launched e-commerce and community facilities for one of Oxford's leading art promoters – aarght! The aarght! website allows artists to sell art online and consumers to buy art online
• We have also been appointed as the digital agency for Aerstream – innovators of the revolutionary Cleanaer air purification systems

December 2007

New website development project win

Capital Shopping Centres have awarded Obergine the contract to develop a community focussed website about the new Westgate Shopping Centre in Oxford.

November 2007

A busy month for Obergine

We are proud to announce that we:

• Completed the first phase of The People's Club football supporters website
• Were engaged by Greenpeace USA to provide Google Analytics consultancy services
• Won a pitch to provide e-commerce services to Unipart Expert Practices
• Have been appointed as the website development agency for Sarah Eberle's new websites

October 2007

The Wise Revise investor information website launched

The Wise Revise is a new venture by E-Studies Limited that offers interactive learning and revision tools to the UK's 170,000 GCSE students. The Wise Revise investor information website provides information for those wishing to learn more about this investment opportunity.

September 2007

New aarght! website live

The aarght! online art gallery, artist promotion and visual art community is live. The aarght! website exists to help artists promote themselves, help art lovers find and buy new artwork, discover new artists and introduce new faces to arts culture.

August 2007

Google Analytics consultancy contract awarded

Obergine are providing Google Analytics consultancy services to a leading travel agent in the UK, Irish and German markets. The travel agent have selected Google Analytics to understand and improve the performance of their international holiday and travel e-commerce websites.

July 2007

Obergine leading the way with Guide Dogs for the Blind

Obergine are working with Guide Dogs for the Blind to ensure they are providing best of breed services for their owners and supporters.

June 2007

Obergine helps Safety First Aid e-commerce operations expand

Following the success of the launch of the Allsport Medical e-commerce website, Obergine have started rolling out integrated e-commerce solutions for Safety First Aid's other brands.

May 2007

New client win - aarght!

aarght! - one of Oxfords leading art promoters - has appointed Obergine as its digital marketing agency. Obergine has been charged with designing a new website that provides a marketplace and community for Oxford's artists and consumers. The website will be supported by email and search marketing in the run up to the 2007 Oxford Arts Festival.

April 2007

Launch of the Allsport Medical online store

The development of the new Allsport Medical e-commerce website - offering a range of medical sports equipment - has been been completed. Obergine's e-commerce expertise has helped Allsport Medical ensure that they retain an advantage in the competitive medical sports equipment market.

Allsport Medical is a respected brand of the long-established Safety First Aid Group.

March 2007

Web analytics consultancy win

Obergine have been engaged by an international non-profit organisation to provide web analytics consultancy services to facilitate the worldwide rollout of Google Analytics across their online media.

February 2007

New campaign website

Obergine have been contracted to design and deliver a campaign website for one of the worlds leading pharmaceuticals companies.

January 2007

Warehouse web analytics consultancy completed

In November 2006, Warehouse - a leading UK women's fashion retailer contracted Obergine to maximise the marketing insights gained from their Google Analytics reporting facilities.

December 2006

New e-commerce project won

Obergine have been selected to build a new e-commerce website for one the UK's major occupational health, safety and training providers, which is due to launch in April 2007.