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SOLO Group acquires Mid Ocean Group F
ollowing a successful commercial co-operation agreement in 2020, SOLO Group has completed the acquisition of midocean. The commercial co-operation agreement allowed both companies to explore their compatibility when offering a selection of the SOLO Group portfolio to resellers in Europe.
The co-operation was successful, with a positive halo effect towards the entire distribution network of SOLO Group. Moreover, both companies were a perfect fit in terms of geography, operational set-up and company values. Alain Milgrom, president and founder
of SOLO Group, said: “During the past 10 years, midocean has impressively taken a leading position as
multi-category and full service supplier of hard goods in Europe. The still fragmented promotional market today is more and more demanding service and efficiencies across the value chain. Our objective has always been to deliver the best service to our customers, always acting in ‘Fair Spirit’. This includes offering a full-service solution
The acquisition represents a fantastic opportunity for midocean and SOLO Group
to stimulate the appeal for promotional textiles at end-users. When combining the strengths of both companies, this is exactly what I envision to happen, in the best interests of all our customers. We do believe that the combination of our companies will enable and boost SOLO Group’s brand awareness and desirability, creating benefit to our entire network of customers.”
Audélia Krief, CEO of SOLO Group, continued: “midocean is a fantastic opportunity for our group to diversify adding a completely new product category and service, which is printed hard goods. By investing severely in process and system automation and digitalisation, midocean has indeed proven to be the benchmark in terms of portfolio accessibility, print quality
P&P LIVE! exhibitor Bursali Towels becomes a buyer
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hile exhibiting at Printwear & Promotion LIVE! earlier in the year, Bursali Towels MD, Steve Vallender, spotted the new state-of-the-art Tajima TMEZ on the AJS Embroidery Services stand, liked what he saw and so bought two of them.
With the busy summer season in full swing and ever-increasing orders, both for Bursali’s printed and embroidered towels, Mr Vallender calculated that these two new machines would greatly increase their production.
The flagship Tajima TMEZ Type 2 is the only multi-head in the world with the new i-TM intelligent thread management – which is an automatic tension adjustment system – that will improve and keep the stitch quality more consistent than the manual tension machines Bursali had before. Along with the time saved on tensioning, the picker-less trimming, reduced
| 8 | August 2022 The two new Tajima TMEZ machines
maintenance, and the 1100spm run speed, they have decreased the production time quite significantly and have resulted in Bursali having more capacity and enabling quicker lead times for customers. Mr Vallender said: “Since these machines were installed in early June, they have proved to be a game-changer for us and have increased our embroidery capacity by approximately 50%. We always invest in modern, state-of-the-art machinery and we are already excited by the difference these machines have made.”
consistency and delivery lead times. When combining both companies, customers will have direct access to extensive inventories of promotional textiles that will be decorated and drop shipped to end users as efficiently and quickly as resellers have become used to for hard-goods. Furthermore, with textile, we are addressing very diverse markets such as workwear, souvenir, merchandising, print on demand, retail/ e-tail, etc. We will therefore continue to nurture our current distribution network with the best products.”
Stephen Gibson, CEO of midocean, added: “It is for the previously mentioned reason that midocean has always envisioned a collaboration with an established textile specialist of promotional textiles. This will instantly strengthen the company’s presentation as a multicategory-specialist supplier, resulting in the most comprehensive item portfolio in the industry, instantly available including print/decoration. SOLO Group is one of the leading textile specialists of customisable textiles in Europe and I am delighted to have found in SOLO Group the partner to pursue this vision.”
FALC Threads returns to the UK
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ith over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing in the screen
printing industry, Liam Stubbings has taken on a new project to reintroduce the FALC Threads brand to the UK. Franco Cavedon, CEO of FALC Threads, said: “With his great skills and customer approach together with hard daily efforts, Liam has been able, not only to re-establish FALC Industrial Embroidery Threads as one of the top brands in the UK industrial
sector, but to start building a strong and experienced structure with a capillary net, even in the retail sector in the UK.” Mr Stubbings started the project over a year ago and is the company’s new UK and North America sales director.
www.printwearandpromotion.co.uk
Liam Stubbings
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