Summary

Associated British Foods (ABF) is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £20bn, 138,000 employees and operations in 56 countries across the world. With a global workforce, ABF needs a well-structured and accessible system for users to communicate and access information. Over time, the organisation’s existing intranet (which was built on an ageing CMS platform) had become fragmented, outdated, and difficult to manage.

Intelogy delivered a new modern SharePoint intranet that transformed ABF’s internal communication and information management. The solution ensures scalability and alignment with future enhancements without custom redevelopment.

Challenges

The intranet is core to the communication and knowledge-sharing across ABF’s global teams. The legacy Sitefinity platform struggled to keep up with ABF’s scale and no longer met the needs of the workforce, leading to several challenges:

Solution Overview

Intelogy supported ABF’s migration from their legacy Sitefinity environment to a modern SharePoint Online intranet. With this new environment, the ABF team were able to make use of an improved enterprise search, enhanced structure with metadata and content types, and a cohesive site-wide design, giving all teams a single, consistent platform aligned with Microsoft 365.

Client Benefits & Results

The new ABF intranet marks a significant improvement in how the organisation handles internal communication and information management.

Key technologies

Celebrating the launch

To mark the successful delivery and launch of the new intranet, ABF hosted an in-person rollout event across their London offices. The launch was exceptionally well received, with strong attendance from stakeholders and enthusiastic feedback from teams across the organisation.

The event provided an invaluable opportunity to celebrate the collaborative effort behind the project, and discuss future opportunities for continued innovation.