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Bringing family heritage and product quality into focus

Kearney's Home Baking logo for brand identity design client.

The Kearney's Home Baking website brings products, ingredients and family heritage together, helping customers understand the range and the people behind it.

Led by Maura and Siobhan Kearney, the bakery brings more than three decades of family experience to a familiar range of baked products. Its website needed to communicate that warmth while giving ingredients, product information and quality standards enough practical prominence. Storytelling, visual direction, technical SEO and ongoing support were brought together so visitors could understand the business beyond a list of products and move naturally between the family story and the food itself.

Services

Web Design
Storytelling Strategy
Technical SEO
Support & Maintenance

Bringing family heritage and product quality into focus

Kearney's Home Baking logo for brand identity design client.

The Kearney's Home Baking website brings products, ingredients and family heritage together, helping customers understand the range and the people behind it.

Led by Maura and Siobhan Kearney, the bakery brings more than three decades of family experience to a familiar range of baked products. Its website needed to communicate that warmth while giving ingredients, product information and quality standards enough practical prominence. Storytelling, visual direction, technical SEO and ongoing support were brought together so visitors could understand the business beyond a list of products and move naturally between the family story and the food itself.

Services

Web Design
Storytelling Strategy
Technical SEO
Support & Maintenance

Date

May 2024

Client

Kearney's Home Baking

Industry

Food & Beverage

Timeline

2 months

Bakers tossing flour above a worktable in a commercial bakery.
Desktop mockup showing the Kearney’s Home Baking homepage.

The Challenge

A trusted product range and a genuine family story needed an online structure that gave both room to matter.

Kearney's already had recognition and a clear tradition of home baking, but a simple product list could not communicate the people, ingredients and care behind the range. The site needed to feel welcoming without becoming nostalgic for its own sake, and informative without losing warmth. It also had to help new audiences discover relevant products through search and understand what distinguishes the bakery before making a choice.

Two desktop mockups showing Kearney’s Home Baking treats, values and bakery story.

The Solution

Heritage, ingredients and product information were brought together in a warm but disciplined website system.

Web design, story development, technical SEO and ongoing support were shaped around the bakery's family identity and product range. The content hierarchy gives the people behind the business a visible role, while individual products and baking values remain easy to explore. Classic visual cues and straightforward navigation keep the experience recognisable, useful and manageable rather than turning the story into decorative brand language.

Desktop mockup showing the Kearney’s Home Baking About Us page.

The Process

Sensory details were balanced with the structure needed for search, scanning and routine content updates.

Copy, imagery and layout were used to express ingredients, texture, family and care without asking visitors to read a long corporate history. Product relationships and relevant baking terms informed the content structure and technical SEO. This let people move from the wider bakery story into specific products while giving search engines clearer context and keeping future updates practical for the team.

Two bakers kneading dough together at a floured worktable.
Two desktop mockups showing Kearney’s Home Baking product and story pages.
Tablets display professional Brainstorm Web Design for client content.
Close-up of hands shaping dough on a floured surface.

By the numbers

% UK and USA

Traffic included 27% from the UK and 18% from the USA.

% UK and USA

Traffic included 27% from the UK and 18% from the USA.

~x CTR

Search listing performance was described as nearly double the industry average.

~x CTR

Search listing performance was described as nearly double the industry average.

+ Years

Family baking heritage led by Maura and Siobhan Kearney.

+ Years

Family baking heritage led by Maura and Siobhan Kearney.

Working with Dave Curtin of Brainstorm made the process of designing our website very smooth and enjoyable. Digital technology was not our strongest point and we had always put it on the long finger, but once we started the process with Dave the project ran smoothly and without delay. With baking and food, we are trying to portray the smell, texture, taste and memories our products create, and Dave captured that concept very well. Our website has brought customers into our bakery and given them an insight into our operations.

John Ambrose

Manager

Kearney's Home Baking

Working with Dave Curtin of Brainstorm made the process of designing our website very smooth and enjoyable. Digital technology was not our strongest point and we had always put it on the long finger, but once we started the process with Dave the project ran smoothly and without delay. With baking and food, we are trying to portray the smell, texture, taste and memories our products create, and Dave captured that concept very well. Our website has brought customers into our bakery and given them an insight into our operations.

John Ambrose

Manager

Kearney's Home Baking