Custom Clothing & Merchandise
I’m just leaving for California, travelling down from San Francisco to Los Angeles from 5th to 14th November, meeting with our US clients and suppliers, specifically WordPress, whose online merchandise store we launched worldwide this summer (read more here). Jo is ably running the Indigo office in London with the rest of the Indigo team. … Read more
A new green and ethical consumer blog is now live, edited by our friend Adam Vaughan: www.smartplanet.com They’ve got first-hand reports on eco fashion shows and the O2 Sustainability Show, interviews with Lush and Jonathan Porritt, plus a video on Londoner’s carbon footprints. If you like what you see, Adam will be very grateful for … Read more
Howies, the welsh, organic clothing, mail-order company, now has a store on London’s trendy Carnaby Street (number 42). They join American Apparel, along with the multitude of other fashion brands that populate this west London area. We’ll certainly be down to check it out soon! If you are interested in getting organic promotional clothing, or … Read more
According to the press release: “The Quayside Group has purchased the assets of SAF UK ltd, one of the UK’s leading supplier of ethical and organic clothing. … Michael Conway, Managing Director of Quayside commented “Organic clothing is great for the environment and great for the customer. It is a rapidly expanding market and we … Read more
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 … Read more
Latest news in from one of our coolest brands, Continental: Continental have purchased 750 tonnes of ‘100% organic cotton – in conversion’, which is due to be harvested in October. Thereafter, from November onwards, all Continental 100% cotton garments will be manufactured using either 100% organic, or 100% organic – in conversion. Continental will be … Read more
What does ‘in conversion‘ cotton mean? ‘In conversion’ on a cotton label is different from organic cotton. The Global Organic Textile Standard enables the labelling of cotton fibre from the organic conversion period, for example ‘100% organic cotton – in conversion‘. Cotton in conversion is grown on land which has only recently been converted to … Read more
Continental Clothing has announced their intention to become 100% organic. In our opinion, this is a massive piece of news and again highlights the change that is going on in the organic apparel marketplace and suggests that organic cotton clothing is one step to being more mainstream within the promotional clothing, corporatewear and staff uniform … Read more
There are a number of serious brands now offering good quality organic and Fairtrade products in this niche part of the promotional clothing market. Katie, who joins Indigo for one week of work experience from Wales, is adding about twenty organic cotton products to the Indigo site as I type and she’ll be writing on … Read more
Online grocery shopping is getting the green touch according to the latest newsletter from Ocado (Ocado.com is an online supermarket in partnership with Waitrose which delivers quality groceries to your home). I quote: “There are so many reasons why shopping at Ocado is the greener option. Each of our vans run on a blend of … Read more