Sole Juice

[Sole Juice]

Hi All

Just thought I would introduce myself to the forum and try and give a little clarification to a couple of posts on here.
I was one of the co-founders of Marvelpress several years ago, Marvelpress was formed to offer blanks, develop new products and to provide large scale fulfilment services. Without getting into too much detail a couple of years back I sold my stock in the company to my USA partners, a rather large company whom I am sure you are all familiar with.

I left Marvelpress to work on a couple of projects one of which was to develop a process for decorating footwear which you can see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8MVv2zNRs
This process was quite brilliant however trying to sell custom made shoes into the market is not as easy as it seems (sizes being a real pain!) so I offloaded that technology a few months back.

I was then notified late September that the owners of Marvelpress did not see the business as being core to them and they were going to exit the market. For the record Marvelpress did not go bust the owners believe me have extremely deep pockets, they have paid all their suppliers, sold of the inventory and equipment and moved on.

Now because of this I no longer have any non-competes to consider and as such decided to re-enter the supplies business hence Sole Juice

For those that do not know me, he’s some history

I was the developer of ArTainium sublimation inks, I was the owner of Tropical Graphics in Florida and was involved in a very bitter law suit with Sawgrass for about 3 years regarding patents in the early 2000's. That case never made it to the end and Sawgrass bought Tropical Graphics and I returned to the UK and set up Sawgrass Europe. I was the MD of Sawgrass Europe for about 5 years before moving on to other projects and ultimately Marvelpress.

Projects of note that I have either developed or co developed:

Sublideck 3D
ArTainium Sublimation Inks
Picta Leather
Subli Crylic
Sketcha Floor
Digi Coat

Most of these brands and products are now back under our control and we are investing heavily in bringing products up to date.

Over the next few months we will release quite a few items that we feel will appeal to the personalisation market including a brand new Sublideck Machine that produces cases in 1 minute, is virtually silent, weighs 13 kilos, produces straight accurate lines EVERY Time and is amazingly priced at half the price of the previous Sublideck 1 (Launching January)

Anyhows hope that helps those that are interested in bringing some clarity to Who are Sole Juice


Thanks

Paul Hirst
www.solejuice.com

[UK Printed Mugs]

Paul, that is all extremely interesting and very exciting. I'm sure we, amongst others, will have many a question for you, especially regarding Sawgrass and those damn patents, but in the mean time wish you well with getting Sole Juice established.