The last 12-18 months have been exciting times at Chadwick Textiles! We are lucky to have a group of talented individuals who share our passion for sportwear and design. They have helped us bring our vision to life and continue to inspire us to push boundaries and take risks. That’s why we invest in our team here at Chadwick’s to help them with personal development and goals with over half of Chadwick employees are active on a course.
Post Covid we have been able to “turbo charge” our investment in innovative new products & investment in people and the business. Our entire ethos is built around creating an infrastructure, which brings desirable co-ordinated teamwear ranges to market, maintain a high level of quality, offer great stocks, longevity of range and of course creating a great place to work! Our China office has recently increased in size to 8 employees. The China office primary function being to maintain a very high level of quality by inspecting every order at the factory before goods are shipped to UK.
Our turnover has doubled over the last 3-4 years putting even more emphasis on upgrading all aspects of our business to cope with the next phase of growth. We have rolled our new warehouse management software linked to handheld bar code scanners, which have improved the picking team’s efficiency and accuracy to improve speed of picking, meaning our customers receive orders quicker! Also, more sales means the need for more warehousing space. On our current site we have recently built a 3rd warehouse and by reconfiguring our other 2 warehouse with alternative racking enabled us to create 200 new pallet spaces and installing a floor to ceiling pallet racking systems increasing storage in our “picking warehouse” by over 500%. Continuing to improve working conditions and efficiency in the warehouse, we purchased four new high level cherry picking machines, two forklifts, and four powered pump trucks that increased unloading speeds and improved manual handling safety.
Such improvements to our systems/procedures have facilitated us being able to manage a literal doubling in the value of stock we are now holding compared to only a few years ago.
Continuous updates to our online portal give our customers much more functionality than just enabling them to place an order 24 hrs a day. Our online customer portal now enables you to make payments on account, view statements, check and track outstanding orders, product descriptions/size charts as well as being able to check live stock and next delivery. Now over 60% of all orders placed are on our online portal!
After 3 years in design, this September we are very pleased to announce the launch of our new KINETIC Range. A contemporary 8 piece range with up to 11 stock colour combinations using a combination of cationic melange effect shoulder panels with colour insert and signature “Kinetic” rubber print:
- Midlayer
- Crew neck sweatshirt
- Hoodie
- T-shirt
- Full zip top / jacket
- Tapered jog pant
- Premium rain jacket (Launch Jan 24)
- Polo (launch Jan 24)
In addition to our exciting Kinetic range we are also adding the following new styles to our stock Core range:
- Rain jacket – Plain black and navy
- Premium stretch midlayer – plain black and navy
- Premium polo – plain white, black and navy
- Backpack – plain black and navy
- Carbon premium short – plain black and navy
- iGen 2-in-1 short – plain black and navy
Looking to the future, we will continue to expand our product lines, explore new markets, and strive to lead the way in providing brand quality teamwear to resellers and suppliers of team sportswear