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Warehouse Native Composable CDP using Zingg at Fortnum & Mason

London's oldest luxury retailers built a single customer view across online, in-store, phone, and restaurant, going from proof of concept to production in under 3 months.

"We have never been able to do that properly before — understand how customers are shopping with us, whether online, in-store, over the phone, or in restaurants. Zingg has really helped us out in doing that."

Jonathan Moss, Director of Customer Engagement
Fortnum & Mason

Customer image
7.5m
Customer touchpoints unified: online, in-store, phone, restaurant, email
100% Private
No data sharing with third parties
2.5 months
From concept to production
Background

Fortnum & Mason is a heritage luxury retailer dating back to 1707, with flagship stores in London and Hong Kong. They serve customers across online, in-store, phone, and restaurant channels, each generating separate, unconnected records with no shared customer identifier across systems.

Challenge

Customer data was fragmented across restaurant bookings, email sign-ups, and online and in-store transactions, with no unified identifier. A third-party identity resolution tool provided non-persistent identifiers with limited transparency, and sharing the full dataset raised privacy compliance concerns. The team had no holistic view of how customers were actually shopping across channels.

Solution

Fortnum & Mason evaluated Zingg Community to test and validate, then built a business case to move to Zingg Enterprise on Databricks. Within 2–3 months, they went from proof of concept to a live, persistent Single Customer View.

  • Email sign-ups, restaurant bookings, and all transaction channels unified into a single clean layer
  • Persistent Zingg ID now serves as the single customer identifier across all systems
  • Proof of concept to full production in 2–3 months, driven by tool simplicity and Zingg team support
"Relatively speaking, as a layman coming into it, it was pretty easy for me to understand how the model was working. That level of simplicity is what probably helped speed things up and quickly gave us confidence."

Jonathan Moss, Director of Customer Engagement

Fortnum & Mason

Results
  • Single Customer View achieved for the first time across all channels: online, in-store, phone, and restaurant
  • Customer behaviour now fully understood holistically, enabling personalized experiences and product decisions
  • Data discrepancies between internal systems surfaced and corrected as a direct byproduct of Zingg
  • Membership program now launching with a clean, persistent customer identifier as its foundation
Platform
Databricks
Edition
Enterprise
Customer
Fortnum & Mason
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