Workwear with a Personal Touch: Elevate Your Brand with Impact Trading

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First impressions are paramount in the business world and your employees’ appearance not only reflects your company’s professionalism but also shapes the perception of your brand. This is where Impact Trading can help your business. We offer personalised workwear solutions that go beyond just uniforms. We can help convey your brand’s identity with a personal touch.

Why Personalised Workwear Matters

Effective branding isn’t limited to logos and taglines, it is also about the consistent and professional appearance of your team. Here’s why we think personalised workwear is essential for your business:

  • Brand Identity: Workwear can be a canvas for your brand’s identity. It helps you communicate your company’s values, culture and professionalism to customers, clients and partners.
  • Employee Morale: When employees wear comfortable, well-fitting workwear that they feel proud of, it can boost their morale and confidence, which, in turn, enhances productivity and job satisfaction.
  • Recognition: A unique work uniform makes your team easily recognisable, encouraging trust and reliability with customers. It can also create a sense of unity among your employees.
  • Advertising: Personalised workwear acts as a walking advertisement for your brand. Your employees become brand ambassadors, spreading the word about your business wherever they go.

Impact Trading: Personalised Employee Uniform with a Difference

At Impact Trading, we understand the importance of personalised workwear. Here’s what sets us apart from our competitors:

  • Our Extensive Product Range: We offer a wide range of workwear options, including hats, aprons, polo shirts, health and beauty uniforms, fleeces, sweatshirts, shirts, blouses and t-shirts. Whatever your industry or requirements, we have you covered.
  • Fairtrade Certified Garments: We’re committed to ethical and sustainable practices. That’s why we supply Fairtrade-certified uniforms for organisations, companies, and charities. By choosing Fairtrade, you are helping to support fair wages and ethical sourcing.
  • Pantone Colour Matching: We understand the importance of colour consistency in branding. We offer Pantone colour-matching services to ensure that your workwear aligns perfectly with your brand’s colour scheme.
  • Samples Before You Buy: We believe in transparency and quality assurance. That’s why we provide samples of your personalised workwear before you make a purchase. You can see and feel the product to ensure it meets your expectations.
  • Customisation Options: Whether you prefer embroidery, screen printing or CAD printing, we have the expertise to personalise your workwear to your exact specifications. Our customisation options are flexible and tailored to your needs.

Why Choose Impact Trading for Your Personalised Employee Uniform?

When you partner with Impact Trading for your workwear needs, you are investing in more than just clothing. You are also investing in your brand’s identity, your employees’ comfort and confidence and your business’s professional image. Our commitment to quality, ethical sourcing and customisation ensures that you receive workwear that truly reflects your company’s values and goals. Explore our extensive range of products and customisation options and experience the difference that personalised workwear can make for your business. Please contact us today to see how we can help with your personalised employee uniform requirements.

Why Your Workwear Should Have an Embroidered Logo

Branded Clothing, Corporate Clothing

Creating a strong brand identity is crucial for success in any business. A logo serves as the visual representation of your brand and can leave a lasting impression on customers. While there are various ways to present your logo, one method that stands out for its timeless appeal and professionalism is embroidery. In this post, we’ll explore why your business should consider getting embroidered clothing and the benefits it can bring to your brand.

Professionalism and Credibility

An embroidered logo adds an element of professionalism and credibility to your business. The three-dimensional texture and intricate details of embroidery create a sense of craftsmanship and attention to detail. This can convey to clients, partners and customers that your business values quality and is dedicated to maintaining a polished image.

Durability and Longevity

Unlike printed logos that may fade over time, an embroidered logo is highly durable. The threads used in embroidery are resilient and resistant to wear and tear. This makes embroidered logos ideal for various applications, such as uniforms, merchandise and promotional items. Regardless as to how your logo is used, it will retain its vibrant appearance for years, ensuring consistent brand representation.

Versatility in Application

Embroidered logos can be applied to a wide range of materials and products. Whether it’s on apparel, bags, hats or even office décor, the versatility of embroidery allows your logo to appear consistently across different touchpoints. This uniformity contributes to reinforcing your brand identity in the minds of your target audience.

Perceived Value and Elegance

The textured and refined appearance of embroidered logos exudes an air of elegance. This perception of higher value can influence how customers perceive your products or services. When a logo is elegantly embroidered on your merchandise or corporate apparel, it can command higher perceived value, which may be reflected in premium price points.

Sense of Unity

For businesses with a team of employees, embroidered clothing creates a sense of unity and belonging. When your team wears the logo with pride, it fosters a strong team spirit and a sense of camaraderie. This can positively impact employee morale, engagement and overall performance.

Timeless Aesthetic

Trends in design and branding come and go, but the classic look of an embroidered logo remains timeless. Whether your business evolves its branding over the years or maintains a consistent identity, an embroidered logo can adapt and continue to represent your brand without appearing outdated.

Attention to Detail

Embroidery allows for intricate detailing that might be lost in other forms of logo application. The careful selection of thread colours, stitching techniques and design placement demonstrates your commitment to every facet of your brand’s image.

Investing in embroidered clothing can yield a range of benefits for your business. Whether you’re a startup or an established brand, this classic approach to logo presentation can be a strategic move toward strengthening your brand identity and leaving a lasting impression on your audience.

Stress Free Staff Uniform Management

Company Uniform Websites, Corporate Clothing

Save time, effort and keep control of your workwear and uniform requirements.

We can build a customised uniform web portal for your organisation. You can select of the clothing you require for your team which we will add to make your own “catalogue”.

This means that you, or designated members of your team can access quick, simple ordering of uniform when required.

You can manage orders across multiple departments and sites. We can develop reports to show:

  • what uniform has been ordered
  • when ordered
  • who ordered it
  • monthly or quarterly reporting

Customers who use our Uniform Manager Portal

Workwear Branding – Embroidery and Print

We can brand your workwear or uniform in house. Expertly carried out by our own team. Choose from polo shirts, t shirts, jackets, hats, caps, fleece, coverall, hi viz. See examples of the embroidery customisation process.

Stock Holding

The service means that you can choose from a “Just in Time” manufacture or we can hold stock for you in our warehouse.

Deliveries

We can deliver throughout the UK or Europe to your satellite offices, individual staff members or subsidiaries.

Find out more

Call us, it’s always great to talk. We get to understand what you need and came put together a proposal for you. Our website has more information Workwear Management Portal.

Leather Straps on Aprons

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We are often asked for artisan style aprons and one feature that is always of interest is the straps. Customers who are looking for something unique and special often love leather, as it’s a great way of adding quality.

The main stumbling block with leather is it cannot easily be cleaned.  You can’t put the leather straps in a washing machine with the aprons, so we wanted to find a way for the straps to be easily removed for laundering.

The flexibility to remove the straps means that they become interchangeable.  As well as solving the laundering issue, it means that you change the look of the apron depending on which straps are attached.

The easiest way to achieve this flexibility is to attach the straps though metal eyelets, using heavy duty metal snap fasteners. At the point where the eyelets and straps are attached, an extra piece of fabric is sewn to reinforce the corner for extra strength. These can also be made into a feature with contrast stitching or fabric. The most popular choice of eyelet and popper is Antique Brass or Nickel.  Buckles can also easily be matched.

When cared for correctly, leather can last much longer than fabric and so this method means that one leather strap can be used for several aprons, therefore making it very economical.

A good intermediate design is to combine leather and webbing. The leather is used for the most visible part of the strap, that attaches to the apron. The webbing is attached to leather to make tying the straps easy and flexible, without the need for buckles. This option can also be less expensive.

Leather and Webbing Straps

We carefully source the best leather, that is both soft to wear against the skin, easy to adjust but very durable. Different colours can be sourced, we certainly don’t have to stick to the traditional browns and blacks.

Our customers love their bespoke aprons with leather straps and frequently return for repeat orders.

Branded Blankets

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Café culture has arrived in the UK and along with it, all the luxury extras that customers expect when spending their disposable income. The decadent interiors and exteriors, luxury crockery, expensive coffee and baked goods. Patio heaters and cushions blankets, throw and furs to keep the chill off.

Blankets being embroidered with a logo

At Impact Trading we have noticed an increase in the demand for branded blanket and throws. We have a wide range of customers who we supply with these items, from vineyards to beauty salons and bars to corporate gifts.

The requirements from each customer can vary from a specific brand colour, style of blanket such as fleece, wool or cotton. They can then be embroidered or labelled with a brand logo.

If you would like to contact us for a quote for branded blankets. Please ring on 01908 511051 or visit our website.

All the Small Things…

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Something that we have learnt over the years at Impact Trading and Cotton Roots is that the tiniest of details can make the biggest impact.

One garment that can be brimming with tiny details is our bespoke, made to order aprons. From metal accents and bold colours to tiny stitches and delicate prints, these are the some of the options our design team can offer, to help you find the best way to make your ideas really pop.  

Some of our Antique Brass Eyelets

If an industrial or vintage feel is what you have in mind for your brand, adding rivets, eyelets, poppers or leather could help you achieve this look.

Webbing and fabric straps with metal adjusters. A central line of red top stitching can really change the way denim looks.

Small accents of colour can be added to your designs from bar tacks or contrast stitching. Another way of adding colour to a simple apron could be to have your logo or signature printed onto your webbing straps like Michel and Alain Roux. A striped webbing or printed strap can add a flash of colour to a simple denim apron and adding different fastening such as toggles, poppers or dungaree clips can really make an impact.

One of our most colourful, fully printed aprons.

If plain isn’t really your thing then maybe a pantone dyed apron, or digitally printed apron might be more to your taste like the example above.

Pantone Matching Promotional Clothing

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Many companies have a specific brand colour/shade which identifies them to their customers. Big, well known brands have colours that are so associated with the brand, that many of the population would recognise the brand without even seeing the logo or the brand name.

Some good examples of this are Coca Cola, who have a recognisable shade of red which is Pantone 2347C.

and Cadbury’s who have a purple shade which is 2685C.


From these examples, you can see how important it is to get the exact colour when producing product packaging, graphics, signage, promotional materials and uniform, so that customers can immediately identify it with the trusted brand that they know.

Impact Trading and Cotton Roots are able to help customers with clothing/uniform to exactly match their brand colours, either by matching the Pantone closely to a stock colour garment or making bespoke clothing out of fabric which is dyed to an exact Pantone colour.
We can also Pantone match webbing, print designs, buttons and thread which means that embellishments, fastenings and logos can also be matched exactly to the brand colours.

We have hundreds of shades of stock coloured clothing to choose from. These products are ready made and for smaller runs of less than 250 pieces, this is a great, cost effective way of distinguishing your brand. It also reduces your lead times, with most orders despatched in two weeks.

For more information about Pantone matched clothing visit our website or call us on 01908 511051