New Workwear Brands Hit The Jackpot!

New Workwear Brands Hit The Jackpot!

You really have to hand it to Caterpillar, Dickies and Helly Hansen for their success in becoming household names within workwear.  Matching leisurewear brands such as Fruit of The Loom, Slazenger and Regatta in this highly competitive arena.

In recent years workwear has become very much a brand led business.  Times have changed from dreary old work uniforms that no one really wanted to wear.  The current new ranges are upmarket, fashionable and often a genuine status symbol.

If you choose to personalise your workwear order to convey your company’s logo, the garments are 100% tax declarable.  Customised workwear really does complete a great deal for modern employers.

Watch this space as there is much more to come from Helly Hansen, Dickies, Snickers and Caterpillar here at Banana Moon.

Please check out the following for superb quality and value:

Helly Hansen

Hammerdal Jacket

Dawson Jacket

Uppsala Jacket

 

Dickies

Lewis Jacket

Cambridge Jacket

Snickers

Duratwill Jacket

Hoodie Sweatshirt

Caterpillar

Polo Shirt

Endurance Polo Shirt

Fleece Jacket

If you would like to enquire about a workwear order please contact us on sales@bananamoon.co.uk

Top 10 Best Selling Hoodie Colours of 2008

Hoodies are one of our best selling products here at Banana Moon and as the end of the year is looming we have compiled this fun top 10 list. What is the best selling hoodie colour for 2008? Find out below…

1. Black - No surprise there, a great colour to personalise on too!
2. Hot pink
3. Purple - The colour on the high street right now!
4. Navy
5. White
6. Fire red
7. Heather Grey
8. Sapphire Blue
9. Baby Pink - One for the girls!
10. Charcoal
    

Bubbling under with huge potential

• Kelly
• Royal Blue
  

Coming soon:

• Fizzy lemon
• Peppermint
• Plum
• Salmon Pink

It just makes your mouth water doesn’t it?

Our favourite and best selling hoodies by a mile is the JH001. It’s also environmentally friendly (click here to view our ethical policies)

Coming soon on Banana Moon is an awesome new street hoodies from Awdis. It is a new full zip hoodie and there will be a fitted ladies version too.

All will be on the site from January 2009.

If you can think of a colour you would really like please contact us on sales@bananamoon.co.uk

New Enterprise Schemes from Banana Moon for the New Year!

We read in the Times this week that Ofsted have produced a new report backing Young enterprise schemes in a big way. We quote "Schools should encourage pupils to run mini enterprises to improve the quality of their business education”.

A report found vast gaps in pupil’s knowledge of the subject with many having no grasp of basic economic concepts.

We have always enjoyed helping children run their own Enterprise schemes and are often impressed by their enthusiasm, effort and application of the children in running these schemes.

The favourite scheme at the moment is to market personalised hoodies in school.

We supply sample hoodies, produce artwork to advertise the hoodies and give back up to enable the schemes to be a big success. Some of the results have been quite astounding!

In the New Year we will have the facility for schemes to set up shops online; where customers can go order and pay for their individual hoodies.

It will add a new dimension to the schemes.

Please contact Paul (email sales@bananamoon.co.uk or phone 01274 688 103) or our marketing department and we will be pleased to help in every way possible to make YOUR scheme a very memorable success.

Comfort versus Fashion

We often joke about how easy the clothing business was 10 to15 years ago. It seems like a different era now. We had a choice of 2 sweats, maybe 3 polos and if we were lucky 4 t-shirts. Of course they were all unisex, your choice was a simple one and there wasn’t much choice of colour. It all began to change and personalised clothing began to follow the high street in terms of choice and fit.

The fashion revolution had arrived.

Fitted garments were now very fashionable. In almost every genre of garment we now have unisex and fitted choice and we think it is great. There is something for everyone.

However fitted garments don’t suit or fit everyone and are often a shorter cut. What you might want to wear on a night out can become inappropriate in the nursery or in the office.

Unisex fit may seem un-cool but sometimes they are the sensible choice. So, if one of your staff is less confident about their body image or perhaps a little on the larger size, consider their comfort and the practicality of the fitted garment.

Also remember that you can mix all garments in the order, they don’t have to be all the same
When you are choosing please bear these options in mind.

Consider the following items:

Raglan Sweatshirt 762M unisex as opposed to 762F
Klassic Polo Shirt KK403 unisex as opposed to KK703
Valueweight T-Shirt SS28M unisex as opposed to SS79M
Stretchy V Neck T MA4 unisex as opposed to MA3
Polycotton Polo Shirt H400 unisex as opposed to H40

Beat the Credit Crunch!

Don’t read the papers, ignore the News at Ten and psychologically you might just get through the so called credit crunch almost intact.

It’s difficult to escape from or ignore.

It is in everyone’s psyche now NOT to spend as we used to do. Cut back on this, cut back on that, look for a cheaper alternative, cut back on holidays… the list goes on!

Forget Waitrose and M & S, hello to Aldi and Netto whose sales are booming in a tighter economy. Yet for most people nothing really has changed. The majority are still working and earning the same amount of money. If we all try to ignore the credit crunch and spend as before then the near future can’t be so bleak.

We at Banana Moon are about to buy a new factory unit, install new machinery and equipment and employ more staff. We could have held back and changed our minds but Carpe Diem, we are going ahead.

Let’s all try to remain confident and surely the economic hardship will be much less.

We are continuing to expand our ranges with top brands such as Regatta Outerwear, Wombat Surfwear and will shortly be adding further brand names.

On the other hand if things are beginning to bite and you want to save money we have some of the cheapest deals on the internet.

Click here to access our exclusive internet only offers. In addition we are promoting the following offers:

• UC105 embroidered polo from £3.95e
• GD05 embroidered t-shirt from £4e
• GD72 ladies t-shirt from £4e
• UC203 embroidered sweatshirt from £5.95e
• UC604 embroidered fleece from £6.95e

Please don’t hesitate to contact Banana Moon for any of your embroidered or personalised clothing requirements.

Prepare to pay more for clothing in 2009

This is the message that world economic conditions are giving to us all.

1. The rising price of oil and raw materials
2. The global energy shortage
3. Rising cotton costs
4. Global cotton shortage
5. Rising employment costs in the Far East

The recent excellent TV documentary Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts highlighted the problems of child labour, poor conditions and low pay in Indian sweatshops. We like to think that as responsible buyers, most concerned consumers will be happy to pay a little extra to fund improvements in the working conditions in the Far East.

Indeed for the first time I can remember we have been hit by half yearly increases on many products. Further increases are expected at the end of the year as well.

All our brands have an ethical policy in place. Click here to view Banana Moon’s ethical policy.

A flagship brand is Awdis who are members of W.R.A.P (http://www.wrap.org.uk/).

Superb hoodies such as the JH001 and the new children’s hoody (JH001B) supplied at a fair price and manufactured in good conditions. The times are a changing as the song says for our industry.

I am sure they are changing for the better.

What do you think? We would appreciate your comments on this subject.

Everybody's going hoody mad...

We sold so many hoodies last year that all we could think of for 2008 was to expand the hoody ranges as much as possible.

It had become clear that they were being asked for in all sorts of weird and wonderful colours.

Whatever the purpose, ski trips, theatre productions, school and college leavers, school enterprise sales, everyone wants a hoody!

So here we are...

We have introduced the JH001 pullover hoody - it's a great item with exciting colours such as

• airforce blue
• baby pink
• burnt orange
• caramel
• cranberry
• fire red
• hot chocolate
• hot pink
• lime green
• moss green
• red hot chilli
• purple
• sapphire blue
• sun yellow
• true violet

At last we even have an olive green for the military, and...of course we have jet black.

Even though there is a massive demand for weird colours in hoodies , black is always the clear fave.

The GD57 heavyweight hooded sweatshirt by Gildan is new - a great soft feel hoody with a big choice of colours, it is building on the success of the GD54 ultrablend hoody, now a perennial fave.

For those wanting a good quality hoody at the cheapest price, look no further than the W71 hoody by Cottonridge... it comes in a terrific range of colours:

• navy
• grey
• candy pink
• pink
• powder blue
• cornflower
• black
• brown
• lime green

It starts from just £7.95 + VAT embroidered... great value, great hoody!

You might be surprised to learn we now sell a lot more pullover syle hoodies than full zip styles.

But if it's great colours you're after, look at the GD58 heavyweight full zip hoody by Gildan, or the wonderful SS16M full zip hoody by Fruit of the Loom.

Is there anything else you would like in hoodies? New colours, different styles,etc?

We would love to hear from you, so let us know!