xfive | 20 Years of Trust

xfive Has Been Supporting Yanmar's European Digital Presence Since 2019

See how we did
Industry:
Manufacturing

Yanmar has been building engines since 1912. In Europe, they operate two independent divisions, Yanmar Marine International and Yanmar Europe, each with its own markets, priorities, and digital roadmap.

xfive has been their technical partner since 2019, supporting both divisions in unifying their digital presence, their product information, and the way their internal teams work with content every day.

Project Scope

Over seven years, xfive worked with both Yanmar Marine International and Yanmar Europe on everything from platform architecture and product discovery to dealer network management and campaign tooling.

What?

UX/UI Redesign

How?

We rebuilt both division websites with clearer structure, better usability, and multilingual capability built in from the start.

What?

Custom Gutenberg Blocks

How?

A block-based architecture that gives internal teams full control over content and layouts without developer involvement.

What?

Dealer Portal and Locator

How?

Dealers update their own information directly in a secure portal, with a geomapped locator for finding the right local contact.

What?

Filterable Product Catalog

How?

A dynamic catalog replacing static PDFs, where buyers filter by spec or parameter and land on a responsive, always-current datasheet.

What?

Custom Relational Database Layer

How?

Shared content maintained once and synchronized automatically across all country sites.

The Numbers Behind the Transformation

Our comprehensive digital overhaul triggered an immediate surge across all critical performance metrics.

Core team autonomy (%)
100
Active Users Increase (%)
42
Specification File Downloads Increase (%)
65
Time on content updates decrease (%)
30

”The actual maintenance of the site is very easy, adding a great deal of autonomy to our team. They never take no for an answer.”

Dana van Kammen, Marketing Manager
Yanmar Europe

Features

Self-Service Dealer Portal and Geomapped Locator | Yanmar Europe

Dealers update their own information directly in a secure portal, with changes going live immediately. With that solution, content management time dropped by over 30%. Visitors find the right local contact using a geolocation-based locator, without needing to call headquarters.

Faceted Product Search and Web-Native Datasheets | Yanmar Marine International

Buyers filter by spec, application, or parameter and land on a responsive datasheet that works on any device and stays up to date, without PDFs or dead links.

Rapid Campaign Landing Pages | Yanmar Europe

The marketing team builds and launches campaign pages from a library of reusable components without a development handoff every time.

Technical Breakdown

Project Type
Multi-Site Management · UX/UI Redesign · Long-Term Technical Partnership
CMS and Tech
WordPress · Custom Gutenberg Blocks · Custom Relational Database Layer