Volunteering is in the news again. Too few of us are volunteering in our communities. That may be true, but from the enquiries we’ve had recently you could be forgiven the exact opposite.
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Volunteering – it’s all over the media
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How to fold a t-shirt
There are number of different ways to fold and bag a t-shirt. YouTube has videos showing the quickest method of folding a teeshirt. The video claims you can do it in two seconds. The video takes over two minutes to explain and demonstrate it [...]
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F1 – it’s back and branded
So the Formula One season has started. A couple of weeks late as the Bahrain race was cancelled (possibly postponed). It’s great to see the drivers, mechanics and support staff dressed in team colours and branded to the nth degree.
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Garment Design Tool
Yesterday we installed this new feature on our website. The garment decorator software enables visitors to our website to mock-up their logo/design onto a variety of different styles and colour garments. We’ve wanted this facility for a while but took our time selecting the [...]
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Colour Matching Embroidery Threads
This is an issue many of our customers want to discuss with us before approving the digitised (embroidery) design. Pantone and CMYK colour references are formats some of our customers are familiar with.
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Hoodies and Dr Martens
It wasn’t long ago that hoodies were the seen as the corrupting factor in the youth of today. Nonsense obviously. No garment is able to achieve that. Dr Martens had a similar issue
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Japanese earthquake and tsunami affect promo business gifts market
The USB memory stick market has been severely impacted by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Many factories manufacturing key components to USB flash drives are located in Japan,
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The origin of the T-shirt
The US Navy. That’s the short answer. Worn as an under garment, sailors and marine dock workers would remove their uniform jacket to work in. That was in the late 1800s.
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Recycling Corporate Clothing
This is an issue that sometimes comes up though not that often. Usually it’s in a meeting with a larger client; one that has a corporate responsibility policy and is looking to reduce their carbon footprint. I’ve found the Uniform Reuse website a good [...]
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Macquarie Bank
Macquarie Group Foundation is the principal national supporter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and a Macquarie staff member
