A free Regatta Pace II jacketis being embroidered with a logo of your choice, and presented to you free of charge with any order over 200GBP.

The jacket is available in 3 colourways: Navy, Classic Red and Black and is available in the following sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL and 3XL.

This is a limited offer – only while stocks last, so hurry to claim your jacket and beat those Spring showers!

• Wearing a uniform to work is no longer the preserve of the manual or blue collar worker. Changing Government regulations and increased competition in a crowded market makes the search for an advantage even more urgent. Long gone are the days when a business card and glossy brochure were enough to get you in to see a new client, now the promotion of your brand is carefully managed and part of a company wide strategy. Every encounter with a customer provides the opportunity for you to promote your brand, increasing awareness of your products and services and through this nurturing a loyalty so that they’ll come back to buy from you again and again.

• Your corporate identity is one of the most valuable assets that your business can possess. In a dynamic and in many cases frenzied market place and with increasingly difficult to identify product differentials, businesses must take every opportunity to engage with their customers and reinforce their message while making promises of great products and excellent service. What would you say if you went into a successful high street retailer and saw staff dressed in their own T shirts and jeans serving on the tills? You would probably think it was a joke or a mistake making a mental note of slipping standards and even to shop elsewhere in future. You need to view your business and staff in the same way, asking how do you want to be perceived and your brand’s message to be interpreted.

• Work clothing is an important part of branding and when staff are presented correctly this is a contributing part of the branding process. Product ranges are now vastly improved and the accessibility of smart, comfortable and fashionable clothing is such that aside from the obvious cost benefit there is no longer any excuse for having poorly turned out staff at any level of your organisation.

• The latest levels of sophistication extend to the styles and colours that you select for your uniforms too. In a farm shop for example you may choose to select colours that reflect the warm hues of the land and its’ produce whereas a sports business may dress their staff in bright energetic colours and it’s this symbiosis that customers relate to and buy into when they look at your business and staff. Early consideration and analysis must be a key part of any ambitious business branding strategy and with expert help you can shorten the time taken and reduce the errors that can easily be made during this process.

• As well as the obvious benefits to the business, employees gain too. Not only do they have a wide choice of smart, fashionable and comfortable clothing they have it paid for also. The gains don’t stop there either; employees can claim tax relief from HMRC for laundering and repairing their work clothing.

• One of the truisms about workwear and garment decoration is that you get what you pay for. Choose cheap at every turn and your staff will reflect this, not only in how they look, but how they feel too. There are really good value options both in garment selection and in the method of decoration. As a general rule embroidery looks classy, is versatile and stands the rigours of repeated washing and drying. Printing technology has come on in leaps and bounds and really great results can be achieved on a variety of fabrics not just on the ubiquitous cotton T shirt.

• Smartly dressed staff are a valuable resource for your business. Talk to an expert and you’ll get great value for money and a look that reflects your values and you may just get that edge over the competition that you’ve been looking for.

Exciting times for Top Embroidery customers!

A new incentive scheme to reward the loyalty of our customers will soon be cresting the horizon.

Watch this space!…

On your bike!

Top Embroidery, the brand developer working with ambition, have just completed an order from Brompton Bicycles, www.brompton.co.uk, the makers of superb-riding, safe, agile and fast, yet easily folding bikes, who requested our assistance in adding the Sunseeker logo, www.sunseekerpoole.com, to holdalls for their bikes. These particular holdalls will carry the Brompton folding bicycles that are designated to be used on certain Sunseeker luxury yachts manufactured in Poole, Dorset. In the four decades that Sunseeker have been building boats it has evolved from a brand into an icon.  Top Embroidery are delighted to be selected to assist in the promotion of such high profile brands.

Here at Top Embroidery we are proud to announce that for 2013 we have added the exciting range of SOLS clothing to our catalogue.

With over 20 years experience, SOLS the French manufacturer brings a fresh new dimension to everything from leisure and workwear to luggage and accessories.

At Top Embroidery we are mindful of our carbon footprint, so we are delighted to say that SOLS are committed to working with sustainable resources and values that demonstrate a deep respect for the planet.

We made the decision to use only Madeira threads on our embroidered clothing and this has been justified in the consistently high quality results that we have achieved. We are able to closely match Pantone colours on your embroidered workwear to one of the many hundreds of Rayon or Polyester threads and guarantee a consistently brilliant lustre finish.

Look here for the Madeira thread card http://www.madeira.co.uk/fileadmin/uk-industry/Classic_list_of_colours.pdf and here for the Pantone chart http://topembroidery.co.uk/static/images/pantone-reference.pdf

Due to their superior quality Madeira Rayon threads can be washed at 95 C / 203 F and work with heavy duty detergents but, avoid bleaching agents. Alternatively use a thread from the Polyester range as these are more resistant to bleaching and extreme temperatures.