We have just bought a Promotional Gifts company.

This means we can not only give you the best possible custom clothing from all around the world but you will now get the benefit of Promotional and Corporate Gifts from one of the most established suppliers in the UK.

Click on the link to see the press release and to get a free report to help you when choosing Promotional Clothing and Corporate Incentives, its here: http://www.promotional-merchandise.org.uk/news/theres_nothing_like_a_good_recession

Most of the enquiries we have given these suppliers so far have been for textile items such as underwear, but we can source literally anything brandable, so long as the enquiry meets the minimum order quantitiy of course!

They school has an infant, junior and senior section and spend thousands of pounds with us every year, but receive heavily discounted prices in order to help them out and ensure that they have plenty of money left to buy the students everything else they need.

We also produce items for their Model United Nations event that they host every year as well as oter promotional incentives throughout the year.

You can view the uniforms by clicking on the link below:

http://www.kics.sd/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=118

We are continuing to print their retail lines available on their website, as well as promotional giveaways such as mugs, lanyards, coasters, key rings and pin badges.

New lines coming this year include canvas shopper bags and fluorescent raving tshirts!!!

It was a lengthy process, but with many opportunities to tender for business from the council, whose borough club row are in, giving them a foot in the door.

Dragon’s Den star James Caan attended and offered an hour long speach on how to cope through the recession as well as some other very helpful business tips.

It was a great opportunity to netwrok with other suppliers who can help us or we can help them.

Workspace Group’s Tradelink section has been very successful for us as we had an enquiry the day after our listing went live and an order from this the day after that. The interview on LBC also sparked off an enquiry withing 2 seconds of the interview finishing too!

To hear Mo Yusuff’s interview, please click on the following link:

http://www.workspacegroup.co.uk/userfiles/file/lbc_radio/5%20March%2009%20Club%20Creations.mp3

Items such as mugs, mouse mats, key rings, pens, business card, flyers, leaflets and posters are a great way of getting your company known at very little cost to you and therefore, keeping you afloat during this terrible economic state.

When Club Row Creations launched over 22 years ago (wow, where did that time go?!), the machines and inks that we used were pretty basic – the norm was 4 or 6 colour carousel manual and semi-automatic printing machines using standard water-based inks for textiles.

Nowadays it’s a totally different story – the most common ink today is Plastisol, which is easy to print with (the ink doesn’t dry in the screen like water-based versions do), very opaque and adheres to most textiles. Other popular inks are discharge inks (used to print light colours onto dark shirts by removing the dye from the garment) and glitter and metallic inks (which contain small metallic particles for that fabulous looking ‘bling’ effect!). These days our machines can print a minimum of 10 – 15 colours too; ideal for the evermore outrageous and challenging custom t-shirt ideas that our customers throw at us!

Yet amongst all the technological innovations and modernisation, the basic technique of screen printing hasn’t changed that much – the biggest changes have taken place in artwork supply and preparation.

When we started out 22 years ago, before the internet (yes, there was a time when we didn’t turn to the internet for everything?!!), all artwork was supplied as ‘paste up’ – the design would be black, stuck on a white board with an overlay to indicate the different print colours. What’s more, artwork would be sent to us by bike or post (remember the good ol’ courier bike?) and we would then transfer the design onto film positives with our PMT camera. Full colour or four colour process designs would usually be sent to us as hard copy (not even CD’s were used back then!) which would then be scanned into a computer and separated onto film. In other words, a lot of hard work!!

Fortunately the 21st Century dawned and artwork is now either sent by email, via an FTP site or by using clever ‘file sharing’ websites which allow you to upload and download big files in a jiffy.

The important thing is that even after 22 years, we at Club Row Creations are just as passionate about printing today as we were back then. Enough said!