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Wild Thang sometimes did not know whether to laugh or cry as we were chosen for a showcase case study video to highlight our unique Brexit journey by the Liverpool Chamber of commerce. The video gives a unique insight into both the real challenges but also how Wild Thang would like the government to help businesses, ending on a positive note about our growth plans for the future which may have had some influence on their nomination as a finalist for the Chamber International Award!

Wild Thang Production Facility.

Andrew Dwerryhouse Wild Thang MD was interviewed for the showcase and the whole team are incredibly proud to represent the manufacturing sector. Describing how we have navigated through what can only be described as the perfect storm through the Brexit challenges to not only survive but adapt and thrive, we hope that this can inspire other companies to do the same. Without doubt one of most challenging moments in the company’s 25 year history, yet we have never been more excited about the future with plans to double our turnover and increase our staffing levels by 20-30% over the next 3 years.

Wild Thang Graphics Department.

Andrew Dwerryhouse Wild Thang MD commented “It has been a roller coaster ride of a journey over the last 4 years but we were proud that our Brexit journey was featured by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, we appreciate being chosen & we genuinely hope it has a positive impact on helping other businesses navigate it, but also for the government policy makers and ongoing EU negotiations.”

Wild Thang MD Andrew Dwerryhouse.

“It’s a special moment to watch this & also showcase to our team as it really did give everyone a real sense of pride of how we have adapted and overcome the many Brexit challenges. To not only have survived and thrived we have also stayed incredibly focused as a team on the future with big growth plans of doubling our turn over and increasing our staff levels by 20-30% over the next 3 years which include the opening of a European office in Dublin to facilitate better access into the EU.”

Wild Thang Embroidery Department.

“Hopefully this mini video also showcases our £2m new world class HQ development that is nearing very final snagging completion before the final launch, this has been delayed many times due to the impact of the World Wide Covid Pandemic which obviously has brought a huge amount of disruption and uncertainty in so many other ways. We really have to laugh when we look back or we would cry to have had three huge challenges for the price of one. We now believe we have passed through the eye of the storm."

Wild Thang Screen Printing Department.

"Our amazing team has developed so much to become logistic experts, so we are now fully focused on getting excited about meeting future growth plans and delivering products and services across the UK, Europe and beyond that are truly world class at every level.”

Wild Thang New World Class Development.

There are a number of relevant links below that relate to the Brexit case studies across a number of sectors and also the details of the international award nomination Story. The voting for the International Award we have been nominated for closes today so we would appreciate your vote if you think our journey to overcome the challenges throughout Brexit was a positive one.

BREXIT CASE STUDIES AWARD NOMINATION DEVELOPMENT UPDATE  VOTE NOW  GET IN TOUCH

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A big thank you to our friends Tarways Asphalte who have completed a great job resurfacing our car park and goods in areas, these have now been marked up with our disabled and electric charging bays.

Benson Signs have also been back on site to fit high level signage to our Derby Road elevation, showing the world what we’re all about! It’s been a very tough journey with development and COVID disruption, but we’re edging closer to final development completion.

Who said manufacturing premises had to be boring or run of the mill, we are really proud to have had the aspiration to create something world class with the help of Liverpool based K2 Architects & Frank Rogers Building Contractor Limited.

Its hopefully not long now as we literally can’t wait to be able to invite you guys & gals to our grand unveiling when it’s safe to do so!

If you would like to find out more about how Wild Thang can help you create a world class physical image, simply get in touch.

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Where do we start when it comes to looking back on 2020, well I think now more than ever it has to start with a big, huge, massive thank you !

To our incredible clients & suppliers who have all helped us weather the storm that has been 2020, every order placed has meant so much this year and having a stable supply chain is central to us being able to deliver the world class service we strive to deliver.

A big thank you to the whole Wild Thang team for their commitment & dedication in helping us get through what has been the companies most difficult time in its near 25 year history. We all committed as a team from day one of lockdown to make sure we not only survived but thrived as a team and company.

While like many companies sales may have been reduced in 2020, it has not reduced our optimism and determination to make 2021 our most successful ever. It’s due to our teams commitment that our world class development is now completed which places us in our strongest position ever to deliver one world class solution & are always here to help with expert advice to solve any branded clothing, merchandise and print puzzle.

Four years in the making & we can’t wait to give you an official tour of our new world class development when it’s safe to do so in 2021. But until then we will be doing a virtual launch and tour over the coming months that will hopefully showcase how far we have come as a company in the last 24 years.

Christmas is the time when we can all make a difference so as our last job of the year our Team Christmas themed day raised money that went towards buying arts and crafts for the children at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, as we knew this was something that they were running short of, we also made a delivery into Liverpool Cathedrals food bank to help those less fortunate at this time of year.

We’d like to thank our generous staff for contributing and helping make these donations possible, you’re the best. The clock is ticking and we will be closing in the next hour for our festive break, but we’ll be back with a bang on the 4th Jan, recharged and ready to go!

Wild Thang now looks to 2021 with great ambition to make it our most successful ever.

Wishing all Wild Thang’s Clients, Suppliers, Colleagues, Family and Friends A very safe Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Team Wild Thang

If you have a requirement In the New Year for any one of our services please don’t hesitate to get in touch

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Wild Thang make an investment of £120K to further enhance their current DTG printing machinery and ensure they continue to strive to deliver world class products and quality to their amazing clients across the UK, and the rest of the world.

Andrew Dwerryhouse, Wild Thang MD commented: 'Even in these incredibly challenging COVID times it is important to look ahead and continue to make important investments like this that will help us deliver our long term aspirational growth plans.

Even in times of economic uncertainly its incredibly important to have that dynamic and continuous improvement mindset because we understand if you are standing still and not adapting then the writing may already be on the wall for any company.

We decided as a team in order to survive and thrive as a company that we needed to continue to invest for the future. As a company we have a one solution mindset so this really compliments Direct To Garment equipment we already have in place but increases our capacity to a much more industrial level with the very latest high quality branding technology which of course will complement our large screen-print, embroidery and heat transfer departments.

Our amazing team undertook three days of training during the installation so have further enhanced their expert DTG knowledge and we are especially excited about the GTX machines environmental credentials with printer inks are manufactured according to Brother's exclusive formulation to provide the best possible results. These DTG inks are amongst the first to not only carry the Oeko-Tex® Certification, but also to be GOTS APPROVED and CPSIA compliant* to help ensure they are safe for printing and environmentally responsible.

For those who don’t know DTG printing it stands for Direct To Garment which is the process of using a modified industrial inkjet printer to apply digital designs directly to garment, it can print any number of colours to an incredibly high resolution meaning there are no longer any boundaries to create incredibly complex designs on short runs. This is the chosen method for on demand where we produce garments as one off or small orders as they are received which is incredibly flexible. We see markets changing and have demand for people to create partnerships where they don’t want to outlay big amounts in either stock or setups so this really opens another set of doors to give our clients yet another possible solution to their branding requirements.

We decided that we wanted to make the first job off the new DTG equipment a special one so we decided to support our friends over at MaxMade who will be taking part in a social distance Santa Dash in memory of Emily Jane Gore, Emily sadly passed away earlier in the year. Their team raised an incredible £5,329 with all proceeds being donated to Willowbrook Hospice. We hope you like our little video montage & photo's to celebrate this significant DTG investment and also to help promote the great fundraising initiative MaxMade are supporting.

After an incredibly difficult year with the impact of Covid we are now focused on Wild Thang looking to 2021 with great ambition and combined with the upcoming completion of our new development we believe the sky really is the limit for dynamic sales growth."

To find out more about the new DTG branding service simple get in touch 

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Video montage & photo’s Various DTG installation images, John Penkman Wild Thang production dept manager proudly holding the t-shirt and the Maxmade team with the cheque & wearing the t-shirts which features a picture of Emily Jane Gore, who will always be remembered.

It’s been one of the most exciting and challenging years in Wild Thang’s 23 years in business and we are more excited than ever to get our exciting redevelopment completed so we can really do our Thang and shoot for the stars!

You may know us for just printing t-shirts, or just supplying branded pens, but hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised about what we have been up to over the past 12 months and get a much better understanding of the truly extensive range of world class products and services we provide.

It’s been a Wild 2019

January was an incredibly exciting moment, after 4 years of hard work and preparation we were finally granted planning permission to redevelop the premises.

February and our development was competitively tendered and we were chuffed that local Liverpool company Frank Rogers were successful to create a trio of local companies involved in our exciting new development.

March gave us the opportunity to produce the official merchandise for the Liver Building 360 tour, Liverpool’s newest and most innovative attraction!

April was immense, whilst we attended the World Famous Grand National at Aintree Racecourse we spotted the playing cards we had produced for the Jockey Club in the hospitality lounges.

May was the month that we finally broke ground on the development, a momentous moment for sure, it was fantastic, and with much relief to finally get the build underway.

June allowed us to put the final touches to Liverpool Football Clubs 1st team player’s jerseys and training kit with the embroidery to commemorate the Champions League Final in Madrid, we are proud to be an official branding partner for one of the greatest football clubs in the world.

July and the development is making exciting progress with the steel frame and cladding being completed, so really starting to become a reality that all the effort and planning made with the very talented K2 Architects, to create a development that had integrity to add something dynamic to the city scape was finally paying off.

August, wow we are very proud to be voted as one of the top merchandise and corporate gift distributors in the UK, and the only representative based in the Liverpool City Region for 2018.

September seen the launch of the medal muddle initiative with our friends at BTR. CSR is at the heart of Wild Thang as a company, so we were proud to make an effort to not only help raise much needed money for local charities, but in turn upcycling products to minimise waste. 

October and Salford Red Devils reach the Rugby League Grand Final at Old Trafford, against all the odds, we were incredibly proud and privileged to be part of their journey this year as their Official Branding, Merchandise and Retail Partner following the commencement of a 3 year deal with our friends at Kappa UK.

November - I’m a celebrity, get me out of here! In every jungle there has to be a Wild Thang and that just happened to be us! Producing the Official Merchandise for one of the biggest programs on TV.

December and its time to have yourself a merry eco Christmas. This year we wanted to highlight a number of innovative products that are all about sustainability, reusability and recyclability, which included a straw for life, collapsible reusable coffee cup and a draw string tote bag, made in part of recycled cotton blend and plastic bottles! If you has been a good boy or girl this year you may even receive one of our Wild Thang branded, eco orientated, corporate merchandise gifts!

Topping off an incredible 2019, and something huge for us to celebrate is our new building officially becoming water tight, so we can starting planning the interior design, new office layouts and the official launch in March, so watch this space...

We have come a long way since that £1500 Princes Trust loan 23 years ago, so we are more excited about the future than ever before and what we can achieve as a team in 2020. When the team works the dream works, so we would like to wholeheartedly thank and wish all of our amazing team, clients and friends a very merry and Wild Christmas, this New Year don’t worry about a Thang, so we can make it a very prosperous 2020 together.

We are always here to help with branded clothing, merchandise and print advice!

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Another epic Snowdon achievement by the Owen McVeigh Foundation which took place on May the 25th so this just had to be merchandise in action this week.

Wild Thang are proud to have played our small part branding and donating the tech T-shirts for the annual @mcveigh_owen Foundation Snowdon Challenge which this year involved 160 plus people fundraising over £20,000 + which is just fantastic. Massive congratulations to all those amazing individuals that completed the Snowdon challenge pushing themselves to their limits for an amazing cause and also to all the fantastic companies that supported this very special event.

It's a great example of merchandise & branding in action. Branded Screen Printed Technical T-shirts show how going that extra mile with branding can really make a truly eye catching impact photo. Think Press Release, think sharing in Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, news feed/blog or including it in a presentation & brochure.

Please remember we are here to help with expert creative branded clothing, merchandise and print advice.

We are sure the Owen Mcveigh Foundation would love to hear from you www.owenmcveighfoundation.co.uk

You can order our full garment brochure free of charge or why not take a look around our extensive range of t-shirts options available.

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Mondays don’t have to be pants, this is why I am so so pleased to share this amazing world record. You already know Wild Thang absolutely loves all things big, huge, massive related to products we sell, but this one is extra special for more than one reason. We probably produce more branded promotional branded underwear than anyone else in the UK and secondly by pure co-incidence this world record took place only down the round from our HQ.

The underpants measured a whopping 1,665 cm wide and 254 cm high and fitted very snugly around an amazing 286 people inside, this amazing world record was achieved by students from Rimrose Hope Primary School in Bootle, Liverpool. The record was organised by five students taking part in a competition in conjunction with the Gazelle group and 'Pants to Poverty,' which raises awareness for fair trade within the cotton industry. This was also very much close to our heart as a company being very much involved in the textile industry and holding Sedex membership we know how important it is to monitor your supply chain to make sure we also say ‘Pants to Poverty’.

Please remember we are here to help with expert branded clothing, merchandise & print advice. At Wild Thang we have an extensive knowledge of manufacturing branded underwear for all the right reasons so why not take a look at going bespoke.

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We all like to receive a well packaged product whether it’s a birthday present, the latest gadget or a new pair of trainers. We want to get you boxed off from a corporate merchandise perspective. Wild Thang really think it can take a product to a different level and make a lasting world class impression by digging deep into the human psychology, that this is something special just like a Birthday or Christmas present.

That’s why at Wild Thang we really take bespoke packaging incredibly seriously, believing that packaging makes the product inside extra special by adding to the anticipation and brand impact whilst also protecting the product itself. We have the ability to design and produce a variety of packaging options across our range of products whether that be for corporate VIP merchandise, a limited edition signed team shirt, special hampers, product launches or a new employee induction or staff incentive kit. This will make the right impression from word go & could include a t-shirt or mug amongst the 1000’s of other options.

We will work with you by understanding your brief/budget and always aiming to deliver the most outstanding packaging using our extensive knowledge, at the right price! Here to help you design and produce unique bespoke packaging of the highest quality and we consider every job regardless of size, whether large or small we can make it great. Pre-production samples are available in certain cases, dependent on the material, project and lead time of course.

Remember we are here to help and guide you with expert branded clothing, merchandise and print & bespoke branded packaging advice of course. To create an enquiry simple click on the link to get a little packaging inspiration

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Wild Thang love to showcase world class campaigns full of quality & creative branding clothing, merchandise and print with plenty of innovative ideas that will help give you a little inspiration.

St John Rigby College wanted to create a unique partnership with a company that could deliver one complete solution for all its creative branded clothing, merchandise and print while meeting the very highest standards and be the best it can be helping the college project, the best possible brand image to the students, community and staff. Wild Thang created the platform to deliver across our entire range of services delivering products that were carefully planned, designed and delivered to the highest possible standard, while understanding the college’s brief of getting the very best quality within budgets and tight delivery timescales. This meant we delivered a creative solution driven approach that gave value for money. 

This involved producing a variety of products across our services which included branded varsity clothing, printed literature, promotional merchandise incentives, pullup banners, selfie boards & large format printed promotional banners plus much more. Attracting new students is one of the number one priorities for all Schools, Colleges, Academies and universities so we have supported this priority mission for St John Rigby by providing very high quality products which will engage and attract the next generation of students, which has been consistently achieved over the many years we have supplied the college and they have consistently met their targets for student intake.

It’s the Wild Thang way! Why not take a look at the one solution variety of services we provide to help you achieve that all important ROI & marketing priorities

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At Wild Thang you know we love all things big, huge and massive related to products we sell and it is time to make your permanent mark(er) on the year ahead. Well check out the world’s largest marker pen measuring a record breaking 1.684 m (5 ft 6.3 in) long and 25.6 cm (10.08 in) wide that’s 12 times larger than the regular sized marker pen! The marker weighs 17.48 kg (38 lb 8.64 oz) with ink amount of 3.14 kg (6 lb 14.72 oz). achieved by Zebra Co., Ltd. (Japan) in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on 5 September 2017.

Please remember we are here to help with expert branded clothing, merchandise and print advice! Why not have a look at our ranger of marker pens and highlighters.

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