<r><QUOTE author="quadrant;151278"><s>[QUOTE=quadrant;151278]</s>Hi,<br/>
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I was told by Adkins a few weeks ago that the owner fell ill a while back and the family do not wish to carry the business forward.<br/>
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Xpres have apparently purchased the stock etc although I am not sure of the ...

Adkins are quitting the market.

<t>Monster thread bump.<br/>
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Tesco have pulled out of the embroidered school clothing business and will close their website in February 2019. They increased their prices, adjusted the fabric quality and introduced delivery charges but all to no avail.<br/>
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Their contractors Slick Stitch ...

They did everything for us we sent them the artwork and that was it.

We get our badges from a local company. They are proper embroidery not a print. We ordered 500 and I have to say they don't look like a separate badge once they are in place. We're thinking of doing PE tops as well.

<t>I'm on our school's PTA and we have now ditched the old system of embroidered blazers. An embroidered blazer badge costs us £1.50 and we have a secondhand Adkins Beta Swift press that we use to heat seal the badges in place. None of the traditional school wear suppliers can come close to the cost ...

That sounds ideal. It can always go to Adkins for a service.

I'm trying to get hold of an Adkins Beta Swift (or similar) label press. Adkins will only supply their distributors and the one company I can find wants silly money.

Second hand would be fine.

<t>The company behind the Tesco venture, Third Axis, has bit of previous when it comes to selling embroidered school uniform. <br/>
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They set-up yourschooluniform.com and sold the idea to the Grattan shopping catalogue. They made horrendous losses for several years. Grattan finally realised ...