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The annual Printwear and Promotion Awards are designed to recognise outstanding garment industry achievements in the following areas:
- Technical Innovation Award
- Customer Service Award
- Environmental/Energy Saving Award
- Promotional Product of the Year
- Garment Decorator of the Year
- Manufacturer of the Year
- Distributor of the Year
The Quayside Group was established in 1995 and since then the business has become a leading supplier of wholesale clothing. All the business’s operations run on e-commerce-enabled express clothing platforms. The Quayside Group is proud to announce that it is a finalist in two categories in the Printwear & Promotion Awards.
CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD
(sponsored by: Screen Process & Digital Imaging magazine)
The judges noted that www.polo-shirts.co.uk uses its online Satisfaction Monitoring System (SMS) to understand its customer’s views on the service and the products it supplies. Customers are sent a post delivery online questionnaire to complete and upon its return, SMS gives www.polo-shirts.co.uk a unique understanding of its customers’ feelings. It provides the company with vital information and helps ensure Quayside is constantly offering an unbeatable product range and service.
DISTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR
The Judges noted that Quayside Clothing has used the power of the internet to offer total convenience, easy ordering and outstanding customer service through its web platforms, which distribute products from JHK, Fruit of the Loom, Stedman, Fanshirt, SAF Organic Clothing, and print materials from Grafityp. Its web ordering systems www.tradetag.co.uk and www.polo-shirts.co.uk both use sophisticated search technology to ensure customers are able to find and order the products they need - fast.
The Awards will be announced on Monday 3rd March at the NEC Birmingham.
January 31st, 2008
Universities from across Europe have been invited to take part in Lindström’s annual international design competition. This annual event, which is aimed at fabric design students and their tutors, has a high profile in the corporate and work-wear worlds.
The Lindström Award is a tutored invitational competition which means that each invited university has to appoint a tutor for the student team that will undertake the task and a maximum of two teams per university can participate. A partner in this process is Klopman International – a leading supplier of work-wear fabrics across
Europe, who will provide the fabrics to be used and make up the students’ prototype garments and the whole process culminates in the Lindström Award Gala and a fashion show.
The life cycle of work-wear is significantly longer than that of street fashion and has different requirements including safety and durability – but even so, the style colour and cut of work-wear needs to be revised on a regular basis so that it benefits from updated understandings of form, function and fabric. Wearing a stylish uniform has a positive effect on job satisfaction and work safety as well has helping establish a brand identity.
Pilots uniform by global jet
December 17th, 2007
As the minnows swim into the same pool as the whales, (sorry Scotland, better luck next time!) and coaches and managers are sacked, left right and centre, it’s a good time to look at the background to the game’s most famous product (apart from Johnny Wilkinson’s kicking skills, of course) the shirt.
A rugby shirt is also known as a jersey, and the term describes shirts worn by both rugby union and rugby league players. In sports terms it may have long or short sleeves, although the garment trade views long sleeves as standard. Traditionally, rugby shirts had a buttoned opening, called a placket, which is similar to that used in polo shirts but with a stiffer collar. However, modern rugby shirts often have a very small collar so as to provide less material for a potential tackler to get hold of – of course that would be illegal, and never happens, but isn’t it interesting that garment design has been altered to prevent it happening anyway?
Standard shirt designs consist of five or six horizontal stripes or “hoops” in alternating colours. Football shirts traditionally have vertical stripes instead, apart from Q.P.R. who have always had a competition shirt with hoops – nobody seems to know why! As rugby is played mainly in winter, a cotton rugby kit can weigh around 6 lb when wet. This extra weight has to be carried by the player, in addition to running in wet, heavy ground, and this is why most competition shirts have an element of polyester in the fabric mix, because it doesn’t soak up water like cotton does.
Rugby World Cup winners 2003 photograph by Bombdog, used under a creative commons attribution licence
October 8th, 2007
The winner of our March win an ipod competition was Sam Collard of the Mug Barn in Little Harrowden. Thank you for your business and we hope you enjoy the ipod !
April 27th, 2007
During the Printwear an Promotion we ran a scratch card competition to win an Apple Nano Ipod. The lucky winners were were Amy And Sue Dodsworth from Dallas Embroidery in Inverness, Scotland.
March 15th, 2007
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