25 years this month. We are celebrating Acorn’s 25th year in business this month. Acorn was born from a need for the family group of sport shops to print uniforms for the staff. It was decided to invest in screen printing equipment and so Acorn was born. It was soon apparent that there was a need for printed clothing and Acorn was established in it’s own right.

Over the last 25 years technology within the screen printing industry has changed considerably. 25 years ago was a far cry from today’s computer generated artwork and printing machines. Artwork text was produced  by letter set and camera work . The darkroom now long gone (and a good job to) is just a distant memory.

Acorn today is still a family business and with the family being involved in the printing industry for 6 generations there is a long family tradition associated with all forms of printing. Today Acorn have a production department that both Print and embroider garments for a wide range of customers. Acorn was traditionally involved  in promotion, leisure wear and subcontract printing, that has been expanded to promotioanl gifts with two new divisions being created Acorn workwear and Acorn Signs.

The sign divison caters for  Exhibition signs, banners, shop signage and vehicle livery with it’s own workshop onsite at Coventry.

All the team look forward to our next 25 years. Acorn will continue to invest in the new technology as it appears over the horizon.

We have updated the look of the bog to fall in line with the Corporate look of the web site. The news and views from Acorn will continue and over the next week we plan to add a snippet of news to the front page so anything of interest can be viewed and fully explored on the blog. Happy reading from the Acorn team.

Continental’s new range of earth positive clothing is now in stock.

So what is Earth Positive
Earth Positive is a Green revolution in promotional clothing. Climate Neutral T shirts,Organic & ethically made. Manufactured solely using sustainable engery generated from wind & solar power.

Carbon Neutral
Earth Positive apparel is made in Carbon neutral facilities in India, from low impact organic cotton and is distributed through carbon neutral warehouses that only use renwable green electricity.

Earth Positive is registered with,
The Soil Association, The Fair Wear Foundation, Eco Sustainable Texiles, The Carbon Trust.

100% low impact Organic Cotton
Oganic cotton fields have to be free of chemicals for three years before being registed as Organic Cotton.This cotton is 100& certified organic

Fairwear Foundation
The fairwear Foundation is an international organisation which exists to promote fair labour conditions in the garment industry. The FWF monitors the code of practice within the manufacturing facilities of it’s registered members. Continental were the first UK company to to obtain registration. The term Fair Trade used in the UK is a standard across all industries rather than specific to the garment trade

Acorn supply and personalise the complete range. Contact us today

Another good day at the office

Adam Jones stormed through the final race of the day to take a well deserved first independent over the line. Finishing 7th Adam is still waiting for the 2008 power unit from Seat. His current engine is about 15 hp down on the 2008 spec and on this faster circuit it shows.

Adam is now 9th in the BTCC 2008 championship. Some of the Acorn crowd were there to cheer him on.

The next round of the BTCC series is at Thruxton on the 17th and 18th of May

Yes it’s soon that time of year for new exec’s
Acorn are committed to Holding their prices & large volume discounts on all fresher t shirts orders for the coming year. We will again help with the new exec clothing for societies and accept small orders supported with free artwork & student discounts. Email or phone in on our free phone number for a quote from any of our sales team. Free phone 0800 0190 552.

Acorn’s New Showroom and Trade counter comes on line.

The trade counter at Acorn House is to carry the Famous DeWalt brand of footwear and clothing along with Dickies and many other major brands of workwear. For the first time Acorn’s online catalogue will be available direct from their site in Coventry. The range will strengthen their line of corporate and workwear clothing allready available from the web site. All workwear and Safety clothing can be personalised by Acorn’s in house production facility.

The trade counter will be open Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5 pm

BTCC Podium place for Adam

The second meeting of the season saw Adam get a 3rd in the final race of the day in the wet at Rockingham today. The highest placed independant entered car saw Team Aircool battle it out in awful conditions with visibility almost nil at times. Some great racing with the first 4 places swapping several times during the race. A great performance from Adam. Look out for the Acorn sponsored car at Donnington on May the 4th. The Acorn Team will be there to cheer him on. Well done Adam.

More Corporate and work wear available

The move to the new Admin unit has gone well.We all sit on the one site with the production unit being next door. The new showroom will allow the range of corporate and safety clothing to be on view to customers so they can test before they invest. The range of clothing is being expanded so watch this space. The range will include safety boots & shoes. Our new Tel number is 024 7669 4466 and the Fax line is 024 7646 4059.

Acorn Sponsor Adam Jones in the 2008 BTCC

Acorn are pleased to announce their continued support for Adam Jones in the 2008 British Touring Car Championship. Adam will be driving the Team Air Cool seat Leon which has just been delivered ahead of schedule from Seat’s Barcelona racing dept. The Leon and Adam will compete in all 10 rounds of this years championship.

For 2008 Adam has once again teamed up with Paul Ridgeway of GR-Asia who will be running the car. Paul said “I am very pleased to be involved with Adam and Team Air Cool and Bodywork (Solihull) for the forthcoming season as I feel we showed in 2007 how competitive we can be an an independent team and look forward to building upon this”.

Acorn Are supplying the teams clothing and the sign production dept are producing the graphics for the car. Keep an eye out for the Acorn Logo flying around the top race tracks in the UK.

Adams website can be found on http://www.adam-jones.co.uk

Acorn on target with their expansion plans
Today Acorn completed the purchase of an industrial unit next to their existing production unit in Canley Coventry. For some years Acorn has been operating from two sites. The headquarters being based at Balsall Common three miles away from the production unit in Coventry. The purchase of the 2500 sq ft next door to the production facility allows the administration design and sales function to be all on one site with the production. Clive Horlor, Acorn’s Managing Director explains the positives are two fold, the first being improved efficiency that comes with being on one site and two we have room for a larger showroom and general expansion for the future in terms of production and the support team. The facility will allow Acorn to display a range of clothing and safety wear for local companies to view the range of the higher market clothing available for today’s growing corporate requirements. The show room will be open to both corporate and individual clubs etc.

Acorn Printing Services Ltd
Acorn House
Falklands Close
Canley Industrial estate
Coventry
CV4 8AU

Tel 02476 694466 From 4th of April.