BPMA, invites students to get creative

Following last years successful launch in 2010, the BPMA ( British Promotional Merchandise Association) has announced its second national student design competition, focused on the on the promotional merchandise industry. Last year they had over 120 enteries, with some truly creative ideas, This year the winners will see their designs worked up into prototypes. The competition is sponsored by 3M, and supported by Will international and design agency Pepagon. I will be keeping an eye on whats going on within the competition, and look forward to seeing some of the potential "next best promotional ideas" being put forward, good luck all!. Visit www.bpma-student-design-award.co.uk for more info

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new unit pictures

our new unit for 2011, new show room, workshop, and goods storage.

supplier notices big changes at T King Associates

A comment from one of our long term suppliers; nice to hear after Trevor and I have spent most of the Christmas break moving the company into a second unit next door!.

Hi John I just popped into your place this afternoon, and I was blown away by what you have done there, very impressed.
Must have been a lot of hard work but I can see it will transform your operation.
I think customers collecting / trying on uniforms will feel much better looked after too.
Excellent work !.
Best regards Cliff

Doubled our floor space and capacity

HI All and a Happy new year !!, its been very exciting for us here at T King Associates, we have now taken on a new unit and doubled our floor space, it has been getting tighter and tighter in the old unit, and we decided that we should take the step to improve and make things work and flow easier. We have a new showroom space, and also larger production and storage space, so we can keep more stock, have a higher volume of stock movement that will ultimately benefit our customers.

The show room will be updated over the coming months so you can come and try things on, and generally have a good poke about.

Will keep you updated !.

Eco Friendly Blazer from David Luke

New Eco-Uniform is an industry first for David Luke

One of T King Associates School wear suppliers David Luke are doing their bit to save the planet with their new Eco-Uniform school jackets for boys and girls. Hailed as a school wear first, the new jackets are made from 100% recycled, non-biodegradable plastic from drinking bottles, which would otherwise go to landfill. Compared to an equal quantity of traditionally manufactured oil-based fabric, the 100% recycled de/repolymerized material used by David Luke requires 84% less energy to produce it. This in these current times can only be a good thing and TKA will be looking into the product shortly and reporting back to customers and users alike

promotional T-shirts good the bad and the ugly

I know it's the middle of an early winter but as sad as I am, I am already thinking how the recent cotton price increases, and general increase in cost of well lets be honest most things, is going to have an effect on the humble promotional T-shirt. We have for at least 20 years printed our T-shirts, from a basic give away for a day promotion, to T-shirts for events and blue chip clients looking to get people wearing their brand over the longer period.

It's worth remembering the following, if you print onto the cheapest poor quality shirt, it will not last more that 5 minutes before it is destined to be a car washing rag. In every situation I can possibly think of it as always worth raising the quality and lowering the run length to compensate, because even if you run 100 shirts of good quality people will wear them and keep them for longer, and its also worth investing in a good designer to pull the job together. The whole point of your shirt is to get your brand / message across long after the day you gave it to your customer or visitor.