Case

From founder-led brand to scalable growth. +122% revenue and +222% EBITDA in 9 months.

122%

Revenue growth

155%

Amount of orders

222%

EBITDA

Se casen

ÖHOUSE

Co-founder and CEO Niels Mikkelsen and Anna Much - who, with her strong organic footprint and dedicated community, served as a natural springboard for the brand's early growth and DNA - have built a brand that speaks directly to a generation navigating fashion on its own terms. ÖHOUSE sells unisex clothing with a relaxed and considered expression, primarily to young people in Copenhagen and the larger Danish cities. The brand sits in one of the most competitive and market-sophisticated segments in Danish fashion, and has still managed to stand out.

Before

Unaware

Solution/ problem aware

Aware

After

Unaware

Solution/ problem aware

Aware

Customer testimonial

Makerz stands out because they combine creativity, brand understanding and performance with a rare ability to grasp our company's concrete needs - and that makes all the difference.

Niels Mikkelsen - CEO & Co-founder

The challenge

When we started working with ÖHOUSE, we met a brand with a strong foundation: an engaged audience, authentic content and an established identity. But the growth potential wasn't fully realized. The brand faced challenges we often see in the e-commerce industry for clothing brands.

A brand tied to one person

Anna Much's presence as co-owner and the brand's most visible face had given ÖHOUSE a unique starting point. She acted as a strong brand catalyst - a figure the audience could identify with and project their aspirations onto. But the close link to one person created a limitation: brand communication was person-driven, not persona-driven.

That meant the brand was largely speaking to people who already knew Anna - but wasn't actively introducing new consumers to ÖHOUSE as a brand. To scale profitably, we needed to depersonalize the brand communication and build a desired persona that spoke to a broader audience, based on their ICP.

Unclear positioning and inconsistent expression

The brand's visual and communicative expression varied from channel to channel. There wasn't a coherent brand identity that clearly signaled what ÖHOUSE stood for - and who it was for. Expression, messages and visual style went in different directions, and it was hard for the consumer to quickly decode the brand's universe.

Content without strategic direction

ÖHOUSE operates at level 5 on the market sophistication scale. In a fashion market where no product is new and competitors are countless, communication is everything. The majority of the existing content communicated at the Solution Aware and Aware stages - and therefore only hit consumers who already knew the brand and were ready to buy.

There was no structured content funnel introducing new consumers to the brand's DNA at the Unaware and Problem Aware stages. That meant ÖHOUSE never really got a hold of the cold audiences who could drive long-term growth by converting cold traffic.

Lack of brand control

Creator content was largely steered by how creators themselves perceived the brand - not by how ÖHOUSE wanted to be perceived. The result was an inconsistent expression that neither strengthened brand value nor performed optimally.

The people behind the results

Marius Thorbjørner

FOUNDER & CEO

Strategy

Paid Social

William Westh

CO-FOUNDER - CCO

Brand & performance strategi

Meta Ads

Mikkel Bülow

Growth Manager | Head of Google Ads

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Rasmus Hunt Guldberg

Growth Manager & Head of E-mail marketing

E-mail marketing & Retention

Meta Ads

Frederik Saugmann

Creative Director & Shopify Dev

Adobe

Shopify

Anne Sophie Frederiksen

Influencer Specialist & Content

Content

AI

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William Westh

CO-FOUNDER - CCO

Brand & performance strategi

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Marius Thorbjørner

FOUNDER & CEO

Strategy

Paid Social