Manchester-based Quayside Group Ltd, a leading online clothing supplier, has been shortlisted in the Online Business of the Year category of the prestigious Fast Growth Business Awards which celebrate the UK’s most successful businesses.

To make the final three, Quayside Group demonstrated exceptional growth over the previous year, made even more notable by the difficult economic climate.

Michael Conway, Managing Director of Quayside Group said, “I’m delighted that we are a finalist in the Online Business of the Year category of the Fast Growth Business Awards. It’s thanks to an excellent team that supports the company that we’ve got this far. The national recognition this delivers to Quayside is definitely their reward for exceptional levels of dedication and ingenuity at a time when the business environment has been tough and the economy has made it difficult for any organisation to thrive.”

Asked to explain the company’s success, he said, “Quayside Group focuses on swift delivery and offering a ‘Wow Service’ to customers. Setting the customer’s needs at the heart of the business has driven Quayside Group’s consistently high growth over the last four years, and we expect another year of rapid growth in 2010.” He also commented on the high calibre of the other finalists, “Being in such good company is a fantastic incentive to continue our growth and development.”

Quayside Group is a Manchester-based business selling garments for work-wear, promotions and events through market-leading websites that supply plain clothing (Polo-Shirts.co.uk) or personalised clothing (Clothes2order.com).

The Fast Growth Business Awards 2009 Online Business of the Year award winner was Seatwave; losing finalists including LOVEFiLM international. The 2010 award winners will be announced on 14 April

Quayside Clothing Ltd is delighted to announce it has been selected as a finalist for the Small to Medium Business of the year in the prestigious National Business Awards – North of England and Northern Ireland Regional Programme. Managing Director Michael Conway has also been nominated as Entrepreneur of the year.

Quayside supplies Clothing for Workwear, Promotions & Events – Fast. Quayside is a market leader in both online personalised clothing (www.clothes2order.com) and online wholesale clothing (www.Polo-Shirts.co.uk).

Over the last 3 years the business has been transformed from a declining business in a dying sector to a market leading online player. A Hitwise award in 2008 confirmed the status of the business as the leading online clothing wholesaler in the UK.
The National Business Awards Recognise the North of England’s most talented individuals and organisations, with the Small to Medium Business of the year award going to the company that can best demonstrate significant growth and innovation in its market sector, under-pinned by strong financial performance.

Quayside was selected through a clear demonstration of growth, leadership, customer focus, innovation and ethics. Other companies short listed for the National Business Awards include household names such as Marks and Spencer, QVC and Yorkshire Water. Quayside must now compete to win the award to be announced at the awards ceremony on July 9th.

Managing Director Michael Conway commented “We are absolutely delighted to have been selected as a finalist for such a high profile award. This recognises all the hard work that has been put in by the team at Quayside to make it a profitable and rapidly growing business; and to be listed amongst the top businesses in the North of England and Northern Ireland is a tremendous achievement”

For more information on the National Business Awards please visit www.nationalbusinessawards.co.uk/regionals/

Quayside Group’s customised clothing site Clothes2order has been re-branded and repackaged. The previous site has made way to a stylish new design and the most user friendly interface possible. The new site has been remodelled around customer feedback and as such it is now easier than ever to order personalised clothing.

The main changes include a new look that makes the site easier and more intuitive to navigate. The aesthetic changes are mirrored by an improvement in the speed of the website, with product navigation revamped to make it easier for customers to find the best products for the customisation they require. Searches are now refined by size, colour and brand. The order process has also been greatly simplified, making it easy to upload and apply customisations.

We’re proud to be a customer led business, so we’d like to say a big thank you to all our customers whose feedback has contributed to the new design.

Quayside Group’s flagship site www.polo-shirts.co.uk has been awarded prestigious Hitwise Top Ten status for the April-June 2008 quarter.

www.polo-shirts.co.uk was the 6th highest ranked website for the UK wholesale and relationship sales industry, and was number one for wholesale clothing*. Hitwise calculates its rankings based upon market share of visits in the wholesale and relationship industry. This makes polo-shirts.co.uk the most visited wholesale clothing site on the web and one of the most successful online wholesale companies around.

Quayside Groups Managing Director Michael Conway commented “We are proud to have achieved top ten status in such a competitive category. The Hitwise award confirms polo-shirts.co.uk as the market leader in the online wholesale clothing industry.”

For more information on the awards please see http://www.hitwise.co.uk/contact-us/top-ten-awards.php

*from data supplied by Hitwise april to june 2008

Quayside, the fast growing Manchester based clothing distributor has added Mantis World to its rapidly increasing list of brands. Quayside currently supplies Saf, JHK, Fanshirt, Stedman and Fruit of the Loom through its trade only distribution website www.tradetag.co.co.uk. The Mantis World family of brands covers ethically produced fashionable clothing for men, women, children and babies, including a range of organic cotton styles. According to Managing Director Michael Conway “I am delighted to be able to add Mantis World to the ranges that we stock. It is a quality clothing range with contemporary styling from a forward thinking company.”

Quayside has built its Tradetag distribution platform using search technology in order to create the easiest way for trade buyers to find and order their clothing requirements 24 hours a day.

Mantis World’s Managing Director, Prama Bhardwaj commented, “I have witnessed the rapid growth of Quayside which has gone from supplying a single brand to becoming an innovative multi brand distributor in a very short period of time.” Mantis World manufactures its products in Tanzania following the ETI Base Code’s international labour standards and was winner of the 2008 Printwear and Promotion’s Excellence Awards for ‘Manufacturer of the Year’.

Quayside has been nominated for in two categories in the decorated garment and promotional products industry most important awards.

In the 2008 Printwear and Promotions awards Quayside are finalists in the following categories.

1. DISTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR, Read More
2. CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARD, Read More

The winners will be announced on Monday 3rd March at the NEC Birmingham.

Quayside Managing Director said “I am delighted. The team at Quayside have worked incredibly hard and its great that we are getting recognition from the industry as well as from customers”

The Quayside Group have been appointed distributor for the Fanshirt brand.

The Manchester based Quayside Group are sole UK distributor of the JHK clothing brand and recently bought the organic clothing brand Saf.

Michael Conway, Managing Director of Quayside says “ Fanshirt has a young fashion look at very competitive prices which has been very popular with our customers. The styling, fabrics and colours are very different to mainstream promotional products and it fits well into our product range. We will be stocking Fanshirt products for next day delivery”

The Fanshirt Brand, which is offspring to a 50 year old clothing enterprise, is now one of the most successful promo-fashion labels in Europe, with offices in London and Paris and distributors in France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Ireland, and Greece.

Sergio Chakardjian [Managing Director], “ We have seen major growth in orders from Quayside. They are an extremely innovative company with very ambitious plans which we want to be part of”.

The Quayside Group has purchased the assets of SAF UK ltd, one of the UK’s leading supplier of ethical and organic clothing.

SAF offers quality organic clothing which is traceable back to the farm where it is produced and contributes directly to the sustainable development of the farming communities.

SAF supplies to a number of leading screen printers, promotional companies and private labels. End users for SAF products included Greenpeace and Timberland.

Michael Conway, Managing Director of Quayside commented “Organic clothing is great for the environment and great for the customer. It is a rapidly expanding market and we intend to make SAF the leading organic clothing brand in the UK. We will improve customer service by increasing stock levels and ensuring faster delivery times”.

The Quayside Group is one of the UK’s fastest growing distributors of promotional clothing. During 2006 Quayside moved to a new distribution center in Manchester’s Trafford Park. In addition to SAF, the Quayside Group distributes JHK and Northquay products.

For more information on SAF please visit:

www.saftag.com

Quayside group has recently founded Clothes2Order, aiming to eradicate all of the hassle traditionally associated with customisable clothing. With the ability to control the ordering, clients don’t have to endure sales calls, meetings, phone calls or price quotations.

The ability to order and customise exclusively online is backed up by all of the latest technology, making the speed of production unique to the clothing distribution business. “Businesses often need printed T-shirts for exhibitions or promotions, and have been unable to get their products produced fast”, says Managing Director Michael Conway. Clothes2Order offer an express personalization service, delivering clothing that’s designed online in just 48 hours.

Clothes2order.com offers no minimum orders, if a client wants a single personalised item it will be delivered, this policy is unheard of with other suppliers, who demand large minimum orders.

The Printwear & Promotion exhition is the only trade show to the cater exclusively for the UK’s garment decoration industry. The worlds leading brands available through UK based distributors will be on display together with manufacturers and distributors of embroidery machines and accessories, screen printing and digital printing technology.

Our JHK Trader stand is located at C52 HALL 9.

The exhibition will be held at the NEC exhibition centre in Birmingham from March 4th-6th 2007