Archive for September, 2007

A Rainy Friday Mourning

Published by Jo 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Client Services Team and News. 0 Comments

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If any of you are lucky enough (?!) to be my ‘friend’ on facebook, you will notice my status update reads Jo is in mourning. It’s a VERY sad day for us here, Ed summed it up quite well earlier, when during our ‘princess themed’ champagne and cupcake breakfast, when he stated ‘this is not a celebration’. Our beloved Laino (Eleni!) is leaving us today for sunshine, whiskey buckets, monkeys, lady-boys and green curry! Yep.. she’s off to Thailand for a month! The Indigo-go office just wont be the same without her!

Who will we discuss boyfriend problems with over champagne at 9am, listen intently to flirty at ten thirty, laugh at the blonde quotes, create our ‘bleep’ of the month charts and of course, enjoy our diet coke breaks with?!

Lain will also be remembered for insisting ‘this really is my favourite song’ to every song played on the radio!!

While we will all be green with envy, we all wish Lainie safe travels and hope she thoroughly enjoys the new adventure ahead!

And who knows, maybe one day we will be lucky enough to poach her back into the Indigo-go clan! Tickets from Thailand??!?!?!Steph has even promised he will ask Lain out, via flirty at ten thirty of course, so who knows!!!

So Sayonara, Auf Wiedersehen, Arrivederci, Au Revoir, Ciao, Adios and Goodbye! We will miss you loads!

edun LIVE

Published by Alex 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Brands and Ethical. 1 Comment

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In the mail last week an expensive looking brochure (by promotional t-shirt manufacturer standards anyway) arrived in the office. It was from a brand called edun LIVE. I must confess to never having heard of it so it could be a new venture or, the fact that the contact address is in Ireland, could mean that it could just be new for the UK market.

According to their site:

“edun LIVE is a B2B solution for anyone who wants ethically produced t-shirt blanks. Launched by Ali Hewson and Bono, our mission is to drive sustainable employment in sub-Saharan Africa through high-volume sales of blank t-shirts”

Whilst we are all for ethical apparel, I am not convinced by the product. Whilst the brochure looks good, the shirt feels a little cheap. Saying that, they never sent a price-list, something that drives me nuts! How can we assess whether the product is right to offer our customers if I don’t have pricing and stock information? Bonkers.

New Team Member

Published by Opal 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Client Services Team and London. 1 Comment

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Hi, I’m Opal and I have just joined the Client Services Team at Indigo Clothing….Yey!

Like many other Aussies I have made the move to London to work & travel. I came over by myself, and yes, it was scary, and yes, I miss my family and friends, but I have met new friends, and I live in a great house share, which is like my new family, made up of French, Portuguese and Japanese.

I’ve had a lot of people asking me “Why would you leave Australia to come live here in London?”

Okay, so the whether is not always the best, the Tube is sometimes unreliable and it is a little expensive BUT I think London is an amazing city, so much history and so many different nationalities and now I have been here for 5 months I know why we all make the move, and you know what I know: I’ll be really sad when I have to leave.

Although it’s only my second day here at Indigo I feel very welcomed and know I’m going to have a whole lot of fun. I also look forward to working with all our great customers and suppliers.

Talk to you all soon.
Opal :)

Life On Gi’raph Paper

Published by Alex 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Websites. 0 Comments

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Threadless this week announce Six New Tees, One Select Tee, Two Tees in Kids’ Sizes, Two Reprints, and a new Loves competition! We especially like this ‘pun-tastic’ t-shirt, Life On Gi’raph Paper, designed by Eric Pacenta.

Uncrate for cool t-shirts

Published by Alex 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Websites. 0 Comments

Uncrate

If you get a chance, you must check out Uncrate, a very cool style and gadget blog for men. Ideal to browse at lunch time or when you need that perfect gift inspiration. The reason we like the site is they have a great t-shirt and polos section.

As well as Uncrate, the publishers also produce Outblush for cool womens items, and check out The Bargainist for hot deals, sales, freebies and coupons.

Wedge Card

Published by Alex 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News. 0 Comments

Indigo accepts Wedge Card

When it comes to paying for your clothing order at Indigo we have always accepted all the usual suspects; Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, even American Express. However, we have added a new card to the list. You can’t pay with it but if you quote its number and it matches your contact details, you’ll get free delivery.

It’s called Wedge.

The Wedge Card is a new way to get discounts and special offers from hundreds of local shops and independent businesses and was the brainchild of John Bird, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Big Issue, and Diana Bird, his daughter. We think it is a good idea and whilst we don’t normally go in for these kind of schemes, this one seems worth supporting and £5 of the £10 purchase price for each Wedge Card sold online will be donated to charity.

To get a Wedge card, which you can use at thousands of other business, other than Indigo, take a look on their site.

The Love Movement

Published by Alex 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Websites. 0 Comments

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Ropeadope, US boutique t-shirt store, produce different collections each year. Check out their latest, The Love Movement. They also are running a sale on the site which is also worth a look.

Red Nose Row

Published by Alex 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Clients. 0 Comments

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Back in March, St. Edward’s School, in Oxford, carried out a charity indoor rowing event for Comic Relief. We printed the t-shirts for the event and they have just sent an ‘action shot’ through of the lads in their charity t-shirts!

Rugby World Cup 2007

Published by Alex 8 months ago in Client Services Team and News. 1 Comment

Tonight, England play South Africa in what will likely be a crushing defeat for a lacklustre, injury ridden England team against the formidable energy of the ‘Boks’.

When Katie, our work experience girl, came in last month she updated the rugby shirt section of the Indigo site and wrote some words for the blog in honour of the Rugby World Cup which we had yet to publish, until now:

“It’s that time again! The Rugby world cup has arrived for 2007, and Indigo Clothing has a new range of rugby wear. Four years ago England’s exhilarating win over Australia was made by Johnny Wilkinson’s memorable drop-kick goal in the last few seconds of the game. Hopefully this year England will show the same fantastic performance they did four years ago.

Indigo’s range of rugby products range from rugby tops, trousers and bags, from well known makes such as KooGa, Front Row and Canterbury.

England’s first game this year will be on Saturday the 8th of September against the USA. The perfect item to support England through this game would be the KooGa Contrast Performance Shirt available in red and white, the Quartered Rugby Shirt by Front Row is available in England’s famous Red and White colours.

One of the favourites to win this year are the famous All Blacks (New Zealand). This year Indigo has a range of clothing by Canterbury, who come from New Zealand. This clothing would be ideal for supporting them this year. All of our Canterbury tops in out range are available in black…perfect!

It’s day three of my work experience at Indigo, I haven’t lost the business any money which means things are going well! Yesterday afternoon i looked at the accounting side of the company, which sounds boring, but was actually quite interesting. Ed, whose in charge of the accounting, like writing the invoices and stuff, showed my how his job works. This morning I spent a few hours calling back the people who have had samples from Indigo to see of they wanted to place an order, luckily I got through to about half of the people (because the other half wouldn’t answer their phones!). After lunch I put the new range of rugby clothes on the site, check them out!”

Motoball

Published by Alex 8 months ago in Client Services Team. 0 Comments

Motoball

James, member of the Indigo Clients Services Team, has a rather different way of spending his weekends from the rest of us who pursue more conventional pursuits. He likes chasing an oversized football around a field, whilst on a motorbike! He ‘plays’ for the team with blue and white stripes and I must admit it looks like great fun!

Apparently, the game has its origins in the Second World War when bored soldiers came up with an innovative way of entertaining themselves. I can’t find much about it on the Internet so perhaps a Wikipedia article is in order?