Fair Trade is a well known UK independent consumer label which appears on UK products, however it does cover any products registered. Confusion often occurs with the Fair Wear Foundation. Customers often believe that the Fair Trade label is the only true mark of companies that care about their employees.
The Fair Wear Foundation started in the Netherlands and is aimed at the clothing industry only. It was set up to promote humane labour conditions in the garment industry. The organisation works with the Code of Labour Practices for the garment industry so really does apply to our industry. The Fair wear Foundation is a mark that can be trusted as the UK’s Fair Trade mark. Many Companies such as Continental and Earth Positive follow this code and are registered manufacturers.
Acorn stock and supply both ranges of clothing which can be personalised to your requirements.

June has been a record month for Acorn with most of the orders being on very short delivery schedules. For those of you involved in  sourcing Fresher T shirts for Sept please organise your quotes early and help us ensure that your fresher T’s arrive in plenty of time. Don’t forget We offer special discounts for Student bodies and Fresher shirts. Get your quote today.

Read an interesting article the other day,apparently the importing of fake goods to the EU rose three fold in the last three years. Outside the EU China accounted for 79% of the fake imports with the United Arab Emirates being second with 5% followed by India, Hong Kong, Algeria, Egypt. the final 10% being spread around.

Acorn only buy either from the manufacturers direct or from their appointed agents its the only way to be sure you get the real thing and we ensure the quality of the garments we supply.

For those of you who can’t find what they are looking for we have our catalogue as an online version as well as the hard copy which can be sent by post. The online version can be found by clicking on the link below or simply by clicking on to our links page and following the link through to the catalogue. happy browsing. just make a note of the Code and email us for a quote.

http://www.our-catalogue.co.uk/pages/catalogue/page2.asp?c=4267&s=521&sid=506667371

Acorn’s 2008 catalogue containing the large majority of our range  of garments is still available by post. The 2008 Catalogue has many hundreds of leisure,business, work and safety wear garments supported by many gifts that can be personalised. The website only has a small number of the products available. If you would like a copy,  please email sales to request your copy sales@acorn-printing.co.uk

When a design is converted from artwork to computer data that will drive the embroidery machine today it is known as digitising. That is when the skills of the digitiser (a human) working with modern software creates the design into a programme that the machine will be driven by to embroider the garment. In the old days pre computer is was done by hand and known as producing the jacquard. Old habits die hard and although we use the latest computer sytems we will have to update our terms. Goes to show how old some of us are getting. Yes we will update the web site to reflect the new terms that have crept into the English language.

Lorraine and I managed to grab a quick break last week. We spent the longest day of the year in wonderful sunshine in southern Spain, whilst the poor old UK had storms and gale force winds. The summer just has not happened and already the days are getting shorter. The hoodies and fleeces season will be upon before we know it, quite depressing really. On a brighter thought most of you still have the holidays to come yet so don’t leave to late to get the t shirts ordered.

regards Clive

Every year Acorn supply many thousands of Fresher T shirts. If your new to the exec and are looking for fresher t shirts contact Acorn and we will be pleased to quote. Discounts are given to all student societies. Contact Clive or Peter in sales to ensure you get your fresher clothing or exec clothing on time, great quality and keen prices  sales@acorn-printing.co.uk

This year Acorn have been very busy with all departments working flat out to ensure we get the orders out on time. With the new members of staff on board in the screen printing dept we have started a second shift in the print room to ensure we hit the deadlines.

Kustom Kit have been rather clever this year and have started to match their colour range across several of their products. This will allow Companies choosing uniform colours across several garments. An example is the polo range will colour match several business shirt colours, so when you want polo shirts and shirts for company uniforms one can get a corporate colour throughout the clothing range. A great way to get a bespoke colour for your range of clothing without having to pay a fortune for taylor made clothing. Contact Acorn for details of products and the personalisation available.