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MyWorkwear expands sales and marketing function to drive growth
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yWorkwear has welcomed four staff members to new roles in the sales and marketing team. The team has been expanded substantially following the opening of the company’s new production facility in April and the announcement of plans to reach an annual turnover target of £5m in the next three years. Lauren Chandler has been promoted internally to a new account management position. With 10 years of experience in customer service and retail, Ms Chandler joined MyWorkwear after her time in Australia. After a brief stint in customer services, her talent for sales shone through and she was seconded to the team before being promoted to the new account management role earlier this month. A recent university graduate, Alex Simpson joins the team as the new sales administrator. MyWorkwear represents Mr Simpson’s first step into the business world, after receiving a First in History and Politics from Keele University. He brings with him an enthusiasm to learn and a desire to help MyWorkwear achieve its growth ambitions. On the marketing side of the team, Morgan Grice has taken on the new role of social media executive. After
The new sales and marketing team pictured with James Worthington, MD
graduating from Birmingham City University with
First-class Honours in Visual Communication, Ms Grice has gained her social media experience on her own personal and business accounts. She will be working alongside internal and external resources to develop the MyWorkwear social media platforms for the future. Finally, Gayle Parker has been appointed as MyWorkwear’s permanent head of marketing. Ms Parker, a seasoned marketing professional, has been supporting the business on a part-time basis for a couple of years. However, following the extensive growth MyWorkwear has seen during that time, she now takes on the permanent position. Starting as a graduate at Saga, over the last 25 years, Ms Parker has worked in
numerous management roles across businesses as varied as Orange, Natwest, nPower and Bank of America. She brings with her a wealth of experience and knowledge from numerous industries to apply to the workwear market. She said: “I am delighted to have joined such a customer-focused and forward-thinking company at this fast-moving time. I am confident that I have the experience and knowledge to make a positive contribution to MyWorkwear’s continued growth and success.”
The new team join MyWorkwear at an exciting time for the company. The business has expanded substantially within the last 24 months, doubling turnover and tripling overall staff numbers. MyWorkwear has also invested £150,000 in a variety of new machinery and technology.
James Worthington, managing director, MyWorkwear, added: “We are really pleased with the strength of the team we now have in place to implement our sales and marketing strategy. We have stretching growth targets in place and we believe that the knowledge and experience of the management team mixed with the drive and ambition of more junior members will help us to achieve these.”
TPS 2022 announces final conference programme T
he first Textile Printing & Sustainability conference will take place on September 8 and 9 at the Dorint Kongresshotel Düsseldorf-Neuss, and with two months to go the agenda has been unveiled.
In total 24 presentations will focus on technology choices, automation practices and environmentally conscious business models.
Peter Buttiens from the European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association, organiser of TPS, said: “Textile industry is more than ever under pressure from sustainability requirements. The EU’s Green Deal targets textiles as one of the world’s most polluting sectors. On global scale, we look at UN Sustainable Development Goals and initiatives such as UN Alliance
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for Sustainable Fashion. Their timeline set for 2030 and 2050 may seem far in future but the time to act and exchange know-how is now. With the new TPS conference we want to contribute to the solution from the printing perspective.” TPS takes a broad look at all critical factors and global trends which influence textile market condition today and in the nearest future.
Each conference day opens with a keynote address. Karin Ekberg, former chair of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, presents five principles of sustainability leadership. Bianca Seidel, a pioneer of sustainable fashion design, makes a plea for transformation and for hope in the world of tomorrow. Other keynotes include Debbie McKeegan who looks at opportunities and risks of
on-demand business models, and Alexandra De Raeve who explores the digitisation of textile design and production.
Brother and Epson explain their approaches to environmentally friendly manufacturing, resource management and recent reshoring trends. Representatives of ink and chemistry companies offer a comprehensive overview of the latest material solutions, pigment ink innovations, including a novel white pigment concentrate, and their implications for specific printing techniques. Two companies lay a particular focus on dyeing and the reduction of its environmental impact, also through removing of textile prints and efficient fabric recycling at the end-of-life stage.
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