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Posted 26th May 2008
ZONE TWO GOES FOR A SLICE OF THE ACTION AT BREAD AND BUTTER

Zone Two is gearing up for the European fashion event of the summer.
The clothing company based in Camden, London, is putting final preparations to its exhibits for the huge Bread and Butter trade show in Barcelona on July 2 – 4.
Zone Two, which has the Zanerobe, Local Celebrity and Scotch and Soda brands, will be exhibiting to an estimated 100,000 visitors to Bread and Butter. It will be displaying its ranges for spring and summer 2009. Read full article

Posted 23th May 2008
NO SWEAT FOR LEE SPORTS

As longstanding Apparel customers, Lee Sports are used to doing business without getting too hot under the collar. After all, Apparel brings you organisation not perspiration. And now Lee Sports is hoping to help keep its own customers cool. The Cork outfit has gained the independent distribution rights to Skins in the Republic of Ireland.

Skins is the range of athletic performance garments guaranteed to keep you at your ideal temperature while removing moisture and protecting from bacteria and UV rays. Read full article

Posted 20th April 2007


Scrum! Ruck! Try!

Yes you ARE still on the apparelstocksoftware.com website. The Apparel Team wish to congratulate their customer Tri Merchandise Ltd on being appointed the Official Secondary Tier Licensee in the UK for 2007, enabling them to deliver bespoke Rugby World Cup collections to the retailer. This follows on from their success of being the Official UK apparel supplier for the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Read full article.

Posted 26th January 2007
Technopoly Article in CompanyClothing magazine January 2007
Finding extra capacity Technology and service go hand in hand in corporatewear, as managing agent Trojan found out when it implemented a new Apparel IT solution linked to its existing Sage accounting system developed by Technopoly.

For suppliers, replacing cumbersome paper systems with smart, efficient computerised versions allows them to maximise their existing resources, thereby increasing the efficiency of back office processes, and enabling staff to focus their time on servicing customer requirements and providing added-value services. From the point of view of the customer, who is getting better and faster service, this can only be a good thing.

When Steven Kluk took over corporatewear supplier Trojan three years ago this was one of his first considerations. ‘The company was operating using Sage for accounting and sales order processing, and all the information it had built up was handled manually, using spreadsheets. When an order came in it was typed up, purchase orders and receipts were produced, etc etc, and this took up a lot of time. Most of the staff had been with the company a long time – between 11 and 25 years – and they had extensive knowledge of the customers and how to service their requirements, so it didn’t make any sense that they spent so much of their time in data capture.’
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Online ordering? - it’s a cinch with Apparel Posted: 01 July 2006
As one avid Apparel user said - “With my customers doing more of the sales ordering, we can now run rings round our competitors, offer a much quicker turnaround and use less staff than ever before.”

Following on from the successful launch of the first Corporate uniform web ordering module in 2005, we are delighted to announce the upgrading and introduction of a new suite of web ordering modules linked directly to Apparel and Sage Accounts.

Web Corporate Wear – This module now offers even more control over employee uniform ordering from a full kit of garments to single items. Recently upgraded to provide more detailed order tracking and reporting for garment orders, returns and employee use. Online order approval and invoice sanctioning can now also be offered.

Web Trade – Developed to enable field sales agents and customers to enter bulk trade sales orders online as a matrix of colours, sizes and quantities. This new module offers tailored logins to allow options to check stock availability and confirm customer order status 24/7.

Web Retail – This module allows Apparel to be linked to low cost out of the box or bespoke web retail ordering sites. Full automation of stock detail uploads and sales order downloads, directly into Apparel, are provided.

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Apparel SQL - new release Posted: 30 June 2005
In response to market demand from some of our larger client companies. Apparel can now be supplied as a full SQL version. This provides for up to 50 users working in a fast order processing environment. This latest release also includes revised MANPACK and corporate wear finishing modules that add improved capability and new links to Web and Laundry based systems.