Smoke-King Online Tobacconist

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Smoke-King is a Leeds-based family-run tobacconist, spanning two generations over thirty years. The Green family have been supplying a quintessential range of cigars, pipes and tobacco since 1989, and online since 2010.

Magento 2 Design and Development

A full rebuild of a botched Magento 2 store with custom development

We've been working with the Green's since 2018, when we agreed to inherit their poorly maintained Magento 2 instance. As the business continued to grow, their eCommerce platform started to buckle.

In 2019, we rebuilt their Magento 2 instance featuring a brand new design to support the exponential growth in mobile sales, including:

  • completely new design using the Bootstrap framework
  • custom workflows for mobile buying to streamline the experience
  • rebuilt Magento 2 core from the ground
  • overhaul of the outdated third-party extensions

Continuous Search Optimisation (SEO)

Driving sales by over a third, two years running

Unlike most other industries, tobacco promotion and discounting are not allowed, meaning Smoke-King relies heavily on their organic traffic for growth. 

In 2019, we grew the business's annual turnover over one third as a direct result in the increase in sales.

Using a continuous programme of search optimisation (SEO), we're able to maintain the top-spot for Smoke-King as the tobacconist of choice in the UK.

  • #1 for 'buy cigarettes'
  • #1 for 'buy menthol cigarettes'
  • #1 for 'tobacco online UK'

Plus we're in the top three for the following:

  • smoking pipes
  • pipe tobacco brands UK
  • new world cigars

Source: SERPS, 23 December 2020.

Engaging Email Marketing

Turning a dormant customer base into a engaged smoking family

We started email marketing for online tobacconist Smoke-King in 2018, taking on the design, content, segmentation and regular marketing emails sent to a growing customer base.

  • Integrating our Email Marketing platform to synchronise from Magento
  • Segmenting lists based on customer's age, gender, location and smoking habits
  • The design and sending of a fortnightly email, showcasing new products, smoking news and events on Smoke-King's social media

Source: Google Analytics Data, December 2020


28% average open rate


8% click-through rate


£28 return for every £1 spent

Payment Gateways for Tobacco Retailers

Business and system compliance for Visa and Mastercard

Due to its high-risk nature, the ever-changing landscape of regulation and compliance has forced tobacco sales online to use alternative payment providers.

We provide Smoke-King with technical measures, business and system processes to maintain compliance with their payment providers.

  • Implementing technical measures to stop underage sales
  • Implementing technical measures to stop exports of tobacco
  • Compliance knowledge and understanding of Visa and Mastercard rules
  • Access to a market of payment gateways, banks and merchants who accept tobacconists


50% mobile increase

Mobile orders are up 55% following a new Mobile-First Design. 65% of all transactions now taking place on mobile.


65% repeat custom

We’ve kept the smoking club engaged and returning with our regular Email Marketing, an impressive 65% repeat order rate.


1m impressions

On-going Search Engine Optimisation has grown search visibility 65%, now exceeding 1,000,000 page impressions per month.

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