New Surroundings

Investment in new machines and increasing our stock levels meant that our home/office in Armthorpe was getting more and more cramped. The time had come to find a new base.

We found the perfect place in Blaxton. A home big enough for our family. A large workspace and a view of aeroplanes dropping into Doncaster Sheffield airport, trains travelling along the line between Doncaster and Lincoln. What's not to like? Finningley post office is just down the road to make dropping off parcels child's play. Doncaster, Worksop, Retford, Gainsborough, Epworth, Brigg, Scunthorpe, Goole, Thorne, Pontefract, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield are all within a 35km Radius.
Having more space gave us the opportunity to to add embroidery to the list of services we offered.

Working and living on the same site isn't for everyone but we find it works for us. We are able to give our customers our best while still being close to our family.

Not Everything Goes To Plan All The Time

Continuing our investment plan in to the business saw us purchasing a DTG machine to service our T-shirt orders. Things were going great.  That was until we were forced in to the first Covid 19 lock down. We found out at great expense that this particular printer needed to be run often. Something we couldn't do, and as a result, it failed leaving us with a hefty bill just at a time when things were tough for many businesses. We stepped away from DTG for a time and hope to revisit it down the line. We are still able to offer direct to garment printing but this is now outsourced to one of our print partners.

Increasing our business-to-business work was a key strategy moving forward, unfortunately, our eBay shop with its need to create and get orders out the same day meant we were having to break off halfway through larger jobs to complete these smaller, one-off orders. We came to the decision that eBay was no longer a positive fit for us, we slimmed down our product range in 2021 and then finally closed the eBay shop in May 2022.