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ObeeteePremium Rugs & Textiles · India / UK
Original BuildTwo StorefrontsOngoing RetainerSEO & Performance

Building — and Still Running — Two Storefronts for a Century-Old Rug House

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We built Obeetee's Shopify presence from the ground up and never left. Two separate stores for two markets, and a standing team handling landing pages, SEO, design, and performance week to week.

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Separate storefronts — India and UK
Built
Original developer of both stores
Ongoing
Retained since launch, still active
100+
Years of brand heritage carried online
Overview

Obeetee is one of the most respected names in hand-knotted rugs — a house with over a century of craftsmanship behind it, selling to India through obeetee.in and to the UK through obeetee.uk. Carryup built that Shopify presence from scratch, and we've stayed on it ever since. This isn't a project that shipped and closed: the two stores are deliberately run as separate storefronts, and we work as the standing technical and creative team behind both — landing pages, SEO, design, and performance, continuously.

The problem

What was broken and why it mattered.

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A heritage brand with no real digital storefront

A century of craftsmanship and a catalogue built on provenance, weave, and dimension — none of which a generic theme knows how to sell. The build had to start from what the product actually needs a customer to understand.

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Two markets that genuinely need two stores

India and the UK differ on currency, shipping, duties, merchandising, and buying behaviour. Rather than force one storefront to serve both, the architecture keeps them independent so each can be merchandised and optimised on its own terms.

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High-resolution imagery on every product

Rugs sell on texture and detail, which means large images on every page. Performance work is continuous rather than one-and-done — every new collection, campaign page, and seasonal drop brings the weight back.

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A publishing cadence a fixed build can't serve

Collections, campaigns, and seasonal pushes land continuously across both stores. That needs a team on retainer who already knows the codebase — not a fresh scoping cycle every time something new needs to ship.

The work

The full scope of what we built.

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Original store build, both markets

We were the original developer of Obeetee's Shopify storefronts — theme architecture, catalogue structure, product templates, and checkout, built around how hand-knotted rugs actually sell rather than a stock theme's assumptions.

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Two independent storefronts

obeetee.in and obeetee.uk run as separate Shopify stores, each with its own catalogue, currency, shipping logic, and merchandising — so India and the UK can be optimised independently instead of compromising on a shared setup.

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Landing pages, built on request

Campaign and collection landing pages are a continuous workstream. We build them to brief across both stores, matched to whatever the marketing calendar needs that month.

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SEO worked continuously, not audited once

Technical SEO, site structure, and on-page work run as an ongoing thread across both domains — handled alongside the build work rather than bolted on as a separate engagement.

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Design work, in-house to the engagement

Design and development sit in the same team on this account, so a new page concept moves from design to production without a handoff between vendors who don't share context.

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Performance held over time

Core Web Vitals and page speed are maintained continuously across both storefronts — imagery, third-party scripts, and new page templates all get checked against the performance budget as they ship.

The sequence

How we got there.

The sequence of work, week by week.

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Phase 01
The original build
Built Obeetee's Shopify storefront from scratch — theme architecture, catalogue structure, product templates, and checkout, designed around a heritage rug catalogue.
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Phase 02
A second store for the UK
Stood up obeetee.uk as an independent storefront with its own catalogue, currency, and shipping logic, so the UK market could be run on its own terms.
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Phase 03
Onto a standing retainer
The engagement moved from project to retainer — the same team that built the stores stayed on to maintain and extend them.
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Ongoing
Continuous delivery
Landing pages, SEO, design, and performance work ship continuously across both storefronts, against the brand's live marketing calendar.
The outcome

The numbers that moved.

Built from zero
Original developer on both storefronts

Obeetee's Shopify presence was built by Carryup — not inherited from another agency or picked up mid-project.

Two stores
India and UK, run independently

obeetee.in and obeetee.uk operate as separate storefronts, each merchandised and optimised for its own market.

Still on it
Retained since the original launch

The engagement never ended. We maintain both stores and ship new work against them continuously.

One team
Design, SEO, performance, and dev together

Landing pages, SEO, design, and performance work all sit with the same team — no coordination tax between separate vendors.

Questions

About this case study.

Is this result typical, or is it an outlier?

We only publish case studies where we can show real, verifiable metrics tied to Shopify data — but every brand's starting point is different. Obeetee's results reflect what was possible given their specific gaps; your results will depend on where your store, tracking, and funnel currently stand.

How long did an engagement like this take?

Timelines vary by scope, but most engagements follow the same pattern: a diagnostic phase in week one, then delivery in two-week sprints. See the sequence above for how this specific engagement was paced.

Can you get similar results for my brand?

We won't promise a specific number without seeing your data first. What we can promise: a diagnostic that tells you honestly whether the same class of fix applies to your store.

What if my brand is in a different industry?

The underlying levers — tracking accuracy, checkout friction, funnel structure — are largely industry-agnostic. See our industry pages for category-specific context.

Services used
Shopify Design & DevelopmentCare & Support RetainerLanding PagesTechnical SEOPerformance Optimisation
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