Client Overview
Being the world's largest food and beverage company. Our client has more than 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favorites and is present in 191 countries across the globe.
Project Overview
The client’s primary goal was to migrate 70+ brands from an outdated Drupal 7 platform to Drupal 9. We partnered with Acquia and our client to migrate the client’s web property from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9. With outdated components, legacy page building architecture, and a non-optimized site-building process, our team completely re-architectured the client’s website resulting in improved performance, accessibility, and offering a flexible site-building experience that accommodates all brand-specific requirements.
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Built and designed all 70+ brands under a single platform with a standard component-based structure
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Enhanced site-building / content editor experience
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Enabled flexibility to include brand-specific page components
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Enhanced the search portal, UI, and functionalities of different brands along with translating content into French
Client Requirements
With a Drupal 7 site with a lot of outdated components, the client faced the following challenges:
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A complex page-building process via HTML, CSS, JS custom packages
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Content editors lacked the freedom to create layouts independently
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The Drupal 7 site had a lot of outdated features and functionalities
The client wanted to bring all its brand details & categories, product details & categories, articles, videos, general pages, custom packages, recipes, and imagery to the Drupal 9 site as-is from multiple brands.
Apart from this, below is the list of requirements:
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Ability to have different UI for their various brands
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Integrate their digital ecosystem with third-party systems like Shopify, Bazaarvoice, Price Spider, and Smart Recipe Hub (SRH)
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Integrating GIGYA forms
Strategy & Consulting
Before starting the project our team of experts:
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Analyzed the client’s existing Drupal 7 portal to assess the feasibility of upgrading the website to Drupal 9.
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Proposed Acquia Site Studio for its page-building benefits, eliminating the technical debt, removing the legacy component, and adopting a better site-building approach suitable for component-driven architecture.
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Planned to avoid code-level customization to achieve brand-specific changes and convert it to components configuration.
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We also planned the migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, including re-architecting the content model and site-building approach, and improving the content editing experience and workflow integrations.
Our Solution

Effortless Content Authoring via Acquia Site Studio
We leveraged Acquia Site Studio to simplify the content editing experience. Empowering content editors with 100% control over page layouts through the available predefined set of components.
Performant Digital Experiences
We also created Google AMP pages to make the site more performant & load quickly on mobile devices. This in turn improved the user experience enabling users with low bandwidth to access the site easily.
Drupal 9 Migration
For migrating to Drupal 9, we identified all unnecessary modules, code, and functionalities and generalized the content types by implementing schema and mapping all content destinations in D9.
Custom Module
The client’s site heavily used sliders that displayed different media assets from Youtube videos to images. We developed a custom module for integrating Swiper Slider which is not provided by Acquia Site Studio.
Business Benefits
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Content editors now have 100% control over a page layout with Site Studio’s component-based approach.
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We enabled the client's different brand sites to have brand-specific designs
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Delivered performant websites with the help of AMP pages
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Ensured Level AA accessibility compliance
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We also facilitated brand-specific domain creation for some brands to display specific brands related information served by different domains.
The platform development and component-based feature rollouts were implemented using Drupal 9 and Acquia Site Studio.
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