Top 10 Kentico Websites for September 2013

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Let’s take a tour of the excellent Kentico websites reported by our partners and clients in September. We are impressed by the quality of sites and well-known brands that currently use Kentico CMS as their platform of choice – Corner Bakery Cafe,  Travel Auto, MLSE Foundation, Charles River Labs, Shred-It, Aurora Lighting and more...

Corner Bakery Cafe, is an approximately 350MM dollar chain with a national footprint looking to expand from 180 stores to nearly 400 stores within the next three years. The purpose of this project was to develop an industry-leading site to kick-start their growth.


Built on Kentico CMS v7, this site is fully responsive with some extraordinary interaction capability around the Menu & Nutrition navigation. This is also leveraging Azure and Geo-location. Stay tuned for a case study coming soon.

Corner Bakery Café
Implemented by:
Rockfish, USA
Kentico Partner

TravelAuto Inc, provides a platform for Travel & Transport Service Providers via. Car Rentals, Limousines, Cab companies to sell/distribute their services directly to travelers avoiding middlemen, agents and brokers. 


There were several objectives of this site. Primarily providing customers with a choice of services, Car Rentals, Limo’s, coaches and bike rentals. The ability to enter your itinerary details along with City and Name services are required. Also providing valuable reviews and ratings.

Build on Kentico EMS v7, this site leverages many of Kentico’s features from Marketing Automation, Social Media, Personalization, Blogs, Banner Management and much more. You will see Multi-lingual coming out in a future release.

TravelAuto, Inc.
Implemented by:
Ray Businesss Technologies, India
Kentico Gold Partner

MLSE Foundation is part of the Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment. This site was developed to celebrate and promote the unique event and drive registrations and donations.

Built on Kentico CMS v7, this site is using responsive sliders with the ability to add YouTube videos easily. They have used a unique approach to media gallery (video/photo) using transformations and doctypes.
 
A quote from MLSE Foundation Executive Director, “The site meets three of their primary objectives: it creatively showcases the best elements of our event, it delivers unique interface opportunities for our participants, and it makes peer to peer fundraising easy.”

MLSE Foundation
Implemented by:
A.K.A. New Media, Canada
Kentico Gold Partner
 

Charles River Labs provides essential products and services to help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government agencies and leading academic institutions around the globe accelerate their research and drug development efforts. 

The goal of the site is to deliver the visitors with the full breadth of CR’s offerings, while offering a client/login portal experience that shows high value and helps delivers sales.

Built on Kentico EMS v7, this site is built using eCommerce, Responsive Design and other functionality

Charles River Labs
Implemented by:
Boston Interactive, USA
Kentico Gold Partner

Shred-It is the world's leading document security and shredding services company. With a global presence spanning four continents, their online web presence needs to service the needs of a broad range of prospective and current clientele, in multiple languages. The newly redesigned Shred-it.com addresses a number of objectives of the company, including: implementation of a new, more contemporary online brand; the creation of a sophisticated prospect marketing and customer service platform, which includes marketing automation, personalization and geo-location functionality; the delivery of rich, engaging content and marketing information to website audiences; support for multiple device resolutions via a responsive user interface; and seamless integration of the website with the company's back office systems (including Salesforce.com and SAP).
 
Leveraging Kentico v.7 EMS features, its extensive API (used for addressing Shred-it's integration and customization requirements) and best-in-class support for delivering multi-site, localized web solutions - were all utilized to deliver a web solution that meets and exceeds the needs of a sophisticated, large enterprise organization.

Shred It
Implemented by:
ecentricarts, Canada
Kentico Gold Partner
Aurora Lighting is a dynamic, international manufacturing, distribution, sales & marketing organization, employing over 600 people globally, as well as marketing products for customers in more than 38 countries. With a complex business model and a wide global reach, Aurora’s web presence needed to play a crucial role in global brand management as well as supporting unique country and region-specific marketing strategies.

Leveraging Kentico EMS v7, Aurora’s US and UK Marketing and Technology teams to develop a comprehensive solution that included the regionalization of content/functionality creating an online experience tailored to each region’s marketplace, responsive design techniques to provide a consistent user experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, and a fully integrated product database with predictive and faceted search capabilities.

Aurora Lighting
Implemented by:
BlueKey Web Solutions, USA
Kentico Gold Partner

Snooze has been giving Australians a better night’s sleep for more than 30 years – and with more than 70 franchises Australia wide it has most bedrooms covered.

The goal of this site was to create a multi-screen, singular experience that brings the simplicity of their new retail offering online in a way that will help them lead their market in quality, technology, and clean design.
 
This was a Kentico CMS Site that was re-launched with and upgrade to Kentico EMS v7 and to be completely Responsive. With 50% of Snooze visitors being mobile it was important to have content to flow gracefully, while creating a consistent experience in the process. There was also The Snooze Bed Builder, Style Selector, Comfort Wheel and much more. All of this being built on a strong and secure Kentico foundation enables the Snooze team to update their product line, promotion campaigns and content themselves in confidence, ensuring the framework of the site is as future-proof as possible.

Snooze
Implemented by:
Get Started, Australia
Kentico Gold Partner

ActiveFit.org is a program that that promotes healthy lifestyles for youth ages 6 to 12. This site introduces the benefits of exercise, healthy eating and proper rest. It helps motivate youth to create personal goals for fitness and develop a lifelong commitment to personal fitness.
 
Built on Kentico CMS v7, this site was created in just 2 weeks by one developer. This site was just launched last month and in 15 days quickly reached over 1,000 users. Children being active on this site and reaching their goals are eligible for fitness prizes and Youth League Scholarships.
 
This site is just another great example of how Kentico makes it easy for organizations to quickly make a difference in the community.
 
Active•Fit
Implemented by:
Licking Memorial Health Systems

 

Tom Morris is a premium lifestyle clothing brand courtesy of St. Andrews Links, The Home of Golf. The website brings together shopping, lifestyle editorial and even a little history - a 21st century facelift, both in style terms and technology. The new site echo’s the creativity and innovation of the product range – giving space to history and heritage; providing engaging editorial and celebrating the products themselves.

Built on Kentico v7 with E-commerce at its core, the site is designed to work across mobile, tablet and desktop. This site meets its primary goal of promoting product sales and brand engagement.

Tom Morris
Implemented by:
Precedent, UK
Kentico Gold Partner

Precedent is a leading Agency that has been defining organizations-wide digital strategies, crafting amazing web and mobile experiences, building impactful brands, creating persuasive campaigns, and transforming organizations through digital for more than twenty years.

When it came to building their own site they have decided to leverage Kentico v7 to meet their own internal needs. The site is fully responsive and looks great.

Precedent
Implemented by:
Precedent, UK
Kentico Gold Partner

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Lenka Navratilova

I am currently on maternity leave with my little daughter, but I still have time to keep you informed about the best projects created by our clients and partners on Kentico. I previously worked as a Partner Manager taking care of our partners' needs.

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