LONDON, October 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Portaltech are thrilled to announce that the L.K.Bennett website won an award for 'Re-design/re-launch of the year' at the IMRG eCommerce awards for excellence. Against stiff competition, L.K.Bennett was awarded eventual joint winners with MS, from a judging panel who said they could not split the winners. Kate Smyth, Director of eCommerce for L.K.Bennett and Rachel Wilkinson, Head of Brand Retail at Portaltech collected the award at the glittering ceremony.

Portaltech won the pitch to re-platform, integrate and implement L.K.Bennett's website in October '09. Due to ambitious timelines, this project was implemented on QuickLive, Portaltech's rapid multi channel platform, built on hybris. Portaltech worked closely with multiple 3rd party providers including 10CMS for interactive merchandising Pod1 for design, to integrate and execute the website in a challenging time frame of only 12 weeks. The new website re launched at the end of January 2010 and has since gone on to exceed all expectations: Net sales increased by 103% YOY in the first 5 weeks, conversion increased by 100% and the customer usability and experience has substantially improved.

Kate Smyth Director of eCommerce at L.K.Bennett said:

The timelines for this project were exceptionally tight, so it took absolute commitment from all the teams involved to produce the final high quality site. The response has been incredible from the increases we've seen in trading to the feedback from our customers. As an eCommerce team, we have been really thrilled with how straightforward the platform is to use and we are really benefiting from the management we now have over our online presence.

To organise a demonstration of Portaltech's QuickLive commerce platform, contact: Rachel Wilkinson, Head of Brand Retail: Rachel.wilkinson@portaltech.co.uk, T: +44(0)207-981-0023

For further information and for PR or trade enquiries, please contact: Rachel Wilkinson, Head of Brand Retail, Portaltech: Rachel.wilkinson@portaltech.co.uk T: +44(0)207-9810023; M: +44(0)788-9719955

SOURCE: Portaltech

CONTACT: For further information and for PR or trade enquiries, pleasecontact: Rachel Wilkinson, Head of Brand Retail, Portaltech:Rachel.wilkinson@portaltech.co.uk, T: +44(0)207-9810023; M:+44(0)788-9719955