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Who Are SP Workwear?

Our parent company, Something Personal have been providing personalised clothing, workwear and team kit for many years alongside our very busy personalised gift website for unique and personalised gifts to give for celebratory occasions such as Birthdays, Weddings & Anniversaries and Christmas. Although our website also has a large clothing section it became apparent that it was not as […]

Embroidered Workwear by SP Workwear for Price Glass

Personalised Workwear: Price Glass

SP Workwear supplies many businesses around the UK with branded clothing for their staff. Businesses where staff are customer facing need to give the right impression and supplying staff with uniform with the company logo on helps ensure the employees look smart, professional and ready to provide excellent service. David Price, Managing Director of Price Glass in Slough ensures all of […]

Embroidered Workwear In A Hurry

Embroidered Workwear in a hurry

Fast turnaround – embroidered workwear in a hurry It’s a regular occurrence in our industry to be approached by a client looking for extremely fast turnaround for their branded clothing.  Quite often I’ll get a call saying “Our current supplier has let us down and I need some embroidered workwear in a hurry – can […]

Personalised Fitness Clothing

Client Focus – The Fitness Experts

Client Focus: The Fitness Experts Whether it’s stopping smoking, cutting down on alcohol or getting fit, it’s always hard to maintain motivation once the ‘honeymoon period’ has run its course. We spoke to one of our clients, Tom Edwards from The Fitness Experts, who operates a gym with a difference based in Basingstoke. The Fitness […]

Stand out from your competition

Stand out from your competition in 2016

Stand out from your competition in 2016 Let’s face it, you only get one chance at a first impression…   Whilst you’re pondering your business moves for 2016 over your Christmas Turkey think about how your company presents itself in front of your customers. How do you set yourself apart from your competitors? Our focus at […]

Embroidered Rugby Shirt for Exhibition

Embroidered Rugby Shirts for US Company in Europe

We were contacted by the Marketing department of US based company TV One who were looking for embroidered rugby shirts for an upcoming exhibition they had in Europe.  They have offices all over the World so were looking for a European supplier to brand the clothing and ship it where it needed to be. With […]

Bespoke Tech Tops For Double Guinness World Record™ Indoor Cycling Event

Back in February 2016 we were contacted by Steven Smith of Rave & Ride, an indoor cycling company that combines indoor cycling exercise classes with the art of techno music creating an extremely fun and unique way of keeping fit!  Imagine cycling in the dark with techno music and disco lights with live DJ’s alongside your […]

5 Things to think about when choosing workwear/uniform for your business

5 Things to think about when choosing workwear/uniform for your business

When you are deciding on the best solution for your new workwear there are many things to consider. Read our 5 things to think about when selecting the best new uniform for your business: 1. Style A lot of people come to us with some great ideas about how they want their workwear to look. Some want […]

Planning an Event or Project Launch? We can help…

Planning an Event or Project Launch? From conception to completion SP Workwear can help… We were contacted by a Global pharmaceutical company HQ’d in Maidenhead to help organise the launch of a Worldwide project called ‘Edge’ – we had 3 weeks from conception to finalise the logo and produce a range of branded items to […]

Personal Trainer & Fitness Instructor Clothing Portal

Blood, Sweat & Tears Building a business isn’t an easy task at the best of times, especially when you’re a sole trader and are working in your business all day and work on your business every other waking moment.  There are many interesting books and articles about working in your business vs working on your […]

Clothing decorating methods – what’s the difference?

Ever wondered what the different decoration methods are for clothing and which one would be most suitable for you? It can be a little bit confusing when it comes to picking the right branding method for your workwear and uniform.  Should you go for embroidery?  Or would it look better in vinyl or screen printed? […]

Screen printing 75x t-shirts is cheaper than vinyl right?

We were recently asked by one of our customers to quote for some printed t-shirts with their logo on so they could resell them as an additional revenue stream for their fitness business.  They wanted to get around 75x cotton t-shirts printed with logo front & back. Naturally, you would think that screen printed t-shirts […]

Embroidered polo shirts

Top tips when picking colours for new uniform & workwear

January is usually a busy time for us as many business owners and marketing managers decide to start new campaigns, refresh their work clothing, reinvent their logos and branding, take on additional staff and generally have a bit of a freshen up in the New Year. It’s most common that our clients tend to know […]

Promotional Merchandise & Giveaways Branded Clothing

It’s all about the relationships

Here at SP Workwear it’s not just about branded clothing. There are many other products we supply which can help you advertise and promote your business… It’s a pretty obvious fact that embroidered workwear and staff uniform is more likely to appeal to your customers than an unbranded garment and help sell your products or […]

Improve your efficiency with branded Workwear and uniforms

There are many advantages of wearing the same items of clothing each day (and I don’t mean literally the same tshirt every day!!). It has been said that wearing the same items every day leads to a clearer mind and more efficient thinking… Take the mogul Steve Jobs of Apple – he was renowned for […]

What is a vector logo or vector image?

One of the most common questions we get asked: “What is a vector image?” and “Why do I need to supply my logo in vector format?” It’s quite difficult to explain what a vector logo or vector artwork is but it’s really important in the branded clothing & promotional products industry… Vector artwork is required […]

Use your customers to advertise your business for free

We’ve got some great tips on leveraging your own customers to promote your business/brand/logo at almost no cost to yourself… One of the biggest costs for a lot of businesses is advertising.  Deciding where best to spend your hard earned money to try and turn it into even more money!  Whether it’s online advertising through […]

How do you resolve mistakes in your business?

What happens if something goes wrong? We love helping our customers look the business with all types of branded clothing and workwear and we like to think that we’re pretty good at what we do, however we are only human and sometimes (thankfully not often) we make a mistake. It’s how you deal with it […]

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Any special requests?

Any special requests for your branded clothing? We always try to entertain any specific requirements for our clients wherever possible… It’s fair to say that in the embroidered & printed clothing game every order could be classed as a special request as each customer will require a different logo, artwork, sponsor, text on their embroidered polo shirts compared […]

4 Colour Print vs Full Colour Print

You may have heard both full colour & 4 colour print but whats’ the difference? It’s an important subject when looking at branded clothing & promotional goods

How to ‘un-shrink’ your cotton clothes

Have you ever found that your brand new cotton t-shirt has shrunk after the first wash or two? Fear not, all is not lost! Learn how to ‘un-shrink’ it…

Why are we called SP Workwear?

Many people think we’re called SP Workwear because the boss is Steve Palmer but there’s more of a story than that – did you know we started off selling gifts?

Important things to consider when ordering workwear

Important things to consider when ordering branded workwear.

Are you looking to purchase branded workwear to help promote your business?  Are you feeling overwhelmed with the number of companies offering branded workwear and the many choices available to you?  You are not alone!  We receive many calls from business owners unsure where to start in the ordering process, but we hope this article […]

What are the different printing methods?

What are the different types of printing methods for customised t-shirts?

If you’ve ever been to an exhibition, charity or sports event you will no doubt have seen people in a variety of different customised t-shirts or with bags displaying various slogans, logos, messages etc.  You may well wonder what type of print is possible on a customised t-shirt or other garment and how people can […]