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Total Image Group Supplies Uniforms for New Super Home Market Store POCO

Total Image Group Supplies Uniforms for New Super Home Market Store POCO

Total Image Group, a uniform and promotional products specialist, poked a vibrant face for the new international super home market store POCO which provides both quality and European styling home solutions at an affordable cost.

With their banana coloured vests and vivid red polo’s, the POCO team stood out vibrantly on the stores grand opening in Blacktown on Friday the 10th of May. Whilst reflecting POCO’S brand image, customers could easily identify POCO employees by their distinctive uniforms,...

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Metlon Corp. Adds 5535 Segmented Flame Resistant Trim

Metlon Corp. Adds 5535 Segmented Flame Resistant Trim

Metlon Corp. Adds 5535 Segmented Flame Resistant Trim-  Latest Product Introduction from 3M™ SCOTCHLITE™ REFLECTIVE MATERIAL; Increased Comfort plus ANSI 107-2010 Compliance

RI-based Metlon Corporation, Authorized Distributor of 3M™ SCOTCHLITE ™ REFLECTIVE MATERIAL, announced today that it will be adding 5535 Segmented Flame resistant trim to its product offerings in conjunction with 3M Scotchlite's product introduction in early April. This latest release from Scotchlite expands their 5500 Co...

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The big picture... Qantas brings new uniform to London

The big picture... Qantas brings new uniform to London

Australian flag carrier Qantas has taken its new look uniform on a world tour, with the last stop being the Cafe Royal hotel on Regent Street, London, where Business Traveller caught up with designer Martin Grant to discuss his inspiration and pride in the project.

Grant took his influence for the uniform from the Qantas logo, with the red triangle visible throughout the uniforms, in details on the back of the women’s skirts to the underside of the lapels on the overcoats.

“As an Australian ex-pat...

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Q2FY’13 Revenues up 5.2% at Uniform Maker G&K Services

Q2FY’13 Revenues up 5.2% at Uniform Maker G&K Services

G&K Services, Inc. reported operating results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2013, which ended on December 29, 2012. Second quarter revenue grew by 5.6 percent to $229.2 million, up from $217.1 million in last year’s second quarter, driven by solid growth in both rental operations and direct sales.

Second quarter net earnings per diluted share grew 33 percent to $0.68, from earnings of $0.51 per diluted share in the prior-year period. The company’s quarterly operating margin improv...

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TRSA Survey Reflects Members’ Steady Workplace Safety Gains

TRSA Survey Reflects Members’ Steady Workplace Safety Gains

TRSA members continue to reduce occupational injuries and illnesses and remain safer than non-member textile service operators. Newly compiled 2012 TRSA survey data shows 5-year declines of one third in members’ key incident rates, with their performance at least 20 percent to 30 percent below nonmembers in most such metrics.

From 2008 to 2012, TRSA survey respondents’ combined total reported incident rate (TRIR) fell 35.7 percent and their days away from work, reassignment and transfer (DART) ra...

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Prestige Medical Launches Improved Clinical Stethoscopes

Prestige Medical Launches Improved Clinical Stethoscopes

Prestige Medical wants you to "hear the difference" in their new Clinical stethoscopes.

On February 1, 2013, the company launched an improved flagship line of Clinical stethoscopes.

The launch followed two years of intensive R&D and independent lab testing that led to design improvements intended to enhance the acoustic performance of the three improved Clinical stethoscope models - the Clinical Lite™, Clinical I®, and Clinical Cardiology®. Along with the design improvements, Prestige Medical ...

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Navy Launches Uniform Survey for Women

Navy Launches Uniform Survey for Women

Female sailors have apparently expressed enough concerns over their uniforms that the Navy is conducting a fleet-wide random survey to get a better handle on the issues and solutions.

The Navy has not said what it has already picked up via informal interviews, surveys and female focus groups, but it gleaned enough to ask about 16,000 female sailors, both officer and enlisted, to take part in a voluntary online survey.

The Navy Uniform Matters Office published a 34-page report in late March that in...

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Westwood Designs Virgin Atlantic Uniforms

Westwood Designs Virgin Atlantic Uniforms

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD has redesigned Virgin Atlantic's famed red uniforms. Over 7,500 members of staff, including cabin crew, pilots, Clubhouse staff and Virgin Holidays employees, will wear the new ensembles - which will make their debut for the first time from July 2013, before the official launch in 2014.

The pairing may come as a surprise to many, considering Westwood's outspoken views on sustainability and unnecessary waste, voiced last weekend at a Vogue Festival talk on fashion's ability to ch...

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Star Trek Into Darkness Updates Federation Fashion by Returning to the ’60s

Star Trek Into Darkness Updates Federation Fashion by Returning to the ’60s

Since Star Trek first made its way to the big screen, its costume design has veered away from the classic color-coded uniforms in favor of experiments with red double-breasted uniforms and unfortunate flesh-colored jumpsuits. But for the 2009 J.J Abrams Star Trek reboot and its recently released sequel, Into Darkness, costume designer Michael Kaplan helped move the sartorial stylings of the Enterprise crew forwards by looking backwards–at the trusty old red, blue, and gold. It’s a comfortingly f...

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NAUMD Announces 2013 Image of the Year Winners

NAUMD Announces 2013 Image of the Year Winners

The NAUMD recently announced the winners of its annual Image of the Year Awards (IOY), a competition honoring excellence in both the design and wear of image and corporate apparel programs. The award is the industry’s highest achievement, and is sponsored by the Image Apparel Institute, a division of the NAUMD. The 16 winning programs, which will be presented during a reception in Orlando this evening, were selected by an independent panel of judges representing a cross section of the fashion in...

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Perfect 10 Program

Perfect 10 Program

The URA is thrilled with the response to their 2013 Perfect 10 Program! For the third year in a row, the URA is proud to offer members with this unique benefit that provides retailers with annual discounts at major manufacturers and suppliers.

With more than a 50% increase in participants, the most popular member benefit continues to keep its allure. 

A full list of the 2013 suppliers can be found by clicking here

To become a member of the URA, join now by clicking here

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