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Roland DG launches marketplace for sales and collaboration R
oland DG Connect Marketplace is a new community service that
brings together customers who use Roland’s products and companies involved in the print business to freely buy and sell products and solutions and exchange a variety of information.
When Marketplace opens, supplies such as media, blades, and extended warranties will be available for sale with Roland DG Connect users able to shop there at any time.
Tony Miller, president, global sales and marketing division, said: “In the future, our hope is to allow our partners and industry experts to join as well, enabling participants to buy and sell products and solutions, share information on industry trends, exchange ideas and know-how with other users, and even outsource jobs during busy periods. We aim to create an international community where users can fi nd everything they need for their businesses. “Since its launch in April 2021, Roland DG Connect has provided a series of services to realise a more stable and streamlined print operations, grow businesses, and enhance profi tability. Tens
T Shirt & Sons to operate H&M’s UK Creator Studio printing hub H
&M Group’s Creator Studio has opened its fi rst UK printing hub which will be operated by Wiltshire-based T Shirt & Sons. Launched in 2021, Creator Studio’s proprietary tech offers artists, labels and licensees an end-to-end solution for merchandise printing and fulfi lment, including customisation options such as screen printing and embroidery. The new printing hub will shorten delivery times on UK orders to between two and four days. Previously orders from the UK were fulfi lled from a site in the Czech Republic. Additionally, the new hub means that there will be no import duties on Creator Studio merchandise – meaning lower costs for customers – as well as allowing merchants to fulfi l B2B payments in pound sterling.
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T Shirt & Sons, which employs more than 250 people in the UK and Europe, said: “We already have a partnership with Creator Studio at our facility in Venlo, Netherlands, and are delighted to be able to expand our work together to the UK. “Combining Creator Studio’s innovative technology with our decades-long experience in the UK market, we’re
T Shirt & Sons will operate the new UK printing hub for Creator Studio
confi dent that this collaboration will provide creatives all over the world an alternative solution to their merchandise needs in the lucrative UK market.”
Dinesh Nayar, managing director
at Creator Studio, added: “Since launching Creator Studio in 2021, opening a regional hub in the UK has been a clear goal of ours. “Sustainability is at the core of our business model, and we’re delighted that our UK customers can now shop confi dent in the knowledge that their purchases are environmentally stable. We can’t wait to see what UK artists across the country create using our technology.” Creator Studio operates within H&M Group’s global supply chain and uses H&M’s dedicated True Blanks range of blank clothing, meaning the service is more effi cient, and responsible than existing merch solutions.
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of thousands of our customers are now using it with more joining every day.
“We are very pleased to be able to provide a place for collaboration among various people, which has been our vision since the conception of Roland DG Connect. We believe that the sharing of ideas and know-how among users and partners with different skills and capabilities will be a major
Roland DG Connect Marketplace will bring customers together
driving force in creating something new and unprecedented. Through Roland DG Connect, we will continue to expand the creative possibilities for our customers and provide new value and competitiveness to their businesses.”
The service has been launched in the US and Europe and will gradually expand to other areas.
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