We are closing for Christmas!
Another year is coming to a close, and Wild Thang is shutting down for the Christmas break. We want to thank everyone, including partners, clients and staff for all the hard work this year.
The clock is ticking and we will be closing today for our festive break, so this will be our final blog post until 2022!
Wild Thang Raised £400 On There Christmas Jumper Day For The John Haynes Foundation
So where do we start when it comes to looking back on 2021?
Well we think now more than ever it has to start with a big, huge, massive thank you! Not only to our incredible clients, every order placed has meant so much this year, but also a special nod to our fantastic suppliers, we know having a stable supply chain is central to Wild Thang being able to deliver our world class service.
Wild Thang's Christmas Jumper Day Raising Funds For The John Haynes Foundation
A big, big thank you to the whole Wild Thang team for their commitment and dedication in helping us achieve so much in 2021, even with the challenges we have continued to make fantastic progress as a team and company, our Liverpool Chamber of Commerce International Award really did top off our year.
Some Of Wild Thang's Team With The Liverpool Chamber International Award
We are now back to pre Covid trading and we should all be especially proud for not only retaining every staff member throughout Covid restrictions, but now we are in fact growing our team and believe 2022 will be our biggest and best ever.
Wild Thang's Team Getting Into The Christmas Spirit On The Last Day
Christmas is the time when we can all make a difference which is why this year our festive themed Christmas jumper day we raised money for the John Haynes Foundation which is very closeto Wild Thangs heart, with our team having known John before his passing both personally and professionally.
Wild Thang's Christmas Jumper Day Raising Funds For The John Haynes Foundation
The foundation itself is focused on delivering professional coaching and mentoring, helping individuals build resilience so they can realise their own potential and ‘Fly With The Eagles’. Our cake sale, raffle and best Chrimbo jumper competition raised a total of £400 so we’d like to thank our generous staff for contributing and helping make these donations possible, you’re the best.
Wild Thang's Christmas Jumper Day Raising Funds For The John Haynes Foundation
Wild Thang's Christmas Jumper Day Winners
Our final little bit of Christmas cheer was to encourage our team to donate food items to help those less fortunate so this year we delivered to the fantastic Fans Supporting Food Banks Initiative just before we finished for our festive shutdown. Hopefully you can see we take our CSR seriously as a company and its our Wild Thang way ethos that means we will always try and make a difference in society and our community.
Wild Thang's Donation To Fans Supporting Foodbanks
We will be closing today for our festive break so this will be our final blog post until the new year, but we’ll be back with a bang on the 4th Jan, recharged and ready to deliver more world class branded clothing, merchandise and print!
Wild Thangs Festive Opening & Closing Times
Wishing once again all our Clients, Suppliers, Colleagues, Family and Friends a very safe Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Team Wild Thang.
If you want to know a little more about the John Haynes Foundation, Fans Supporting Foodbanks or have a requirement for any one of our services please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
John Haynes Foundation Fans Supporting Foodbanks Get In Touch
Please note that Wild Thang will be closed from Wednesday 22nd December @ 3:30pm and will re-open on Tuesday 4th January 2022 @ 9:00am. After unprecedented demand for any new or unplanned enquiries we are now at maximum capacity for 2021! We will continue to take enquiries & process orders and schedule for delivery in January 2022. Our greatest thanks for all your business this year, we want you to know we really appreciate it from the bottom of our Wild hearts.
Please remember as always we are here to help you have a successful & prosperous 2022 by providing free world class expert branded clothing, merchandise and print advice. Wishing you all a very Merry Covid Free Christmas & a Happy New Year from all the Wild Thang team.
If you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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
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.
This year they went virtual due to the impact of Covid-19 and it was streamed live on a dedicated You Tube channel on the 10TH of November which was fantastic. This enabled deserving shortlisted nominees to receive some much needed publicity highlighting the very best in the hospitality, event and tourism industry which we know has been very hard hit.
Andrew Dwerryhouse Wild Thang Managing Director commented: “After many years of supporting this fantastic and prestigious event it was great to hear that it was still going ahead with an innovative virtual awards ceremony adapting in the face of the Corona Virus Pandemic. On the evening we were proud to announce Liverpool Gin Distillery as the winners of the Pub Of The Year Category, big congratulations to their whole team, it is such a fantastic & innovative venue.
This year Wild Thang produced the awards for the event & while it has been an incredibly challenging year for so many businesses it’s probably never been more important to support each other wherever, however and whenever you can so we can all survive & thrive.“
To find out more about the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2020 head over to their website
Photographs Wild Thang MD Andrew Dwerryhouse (Holding one of the awards Wild Thang produced)
WILD THANG COVID SECURE MAKING IT BUSINESS AS USUAL!
Dear Clients and Suppliers
After the lockdown announcement from central government on Saturday confirming the month long lockdown will start 12am 5th November we wanted to let you know as a manufacturer we are still operating as normal. Please rest assured that this latest announcement will not affect our ability to fulfil orders & meet all our commitments.
Wild Thang premises and workplace is following & working within all Government guidelines and is ‘COVID secure’, we have had a recent endorsement from Health at Work who complimented our approach to continue to trade safely as a business.
So under the latest announcements we are permitted to continue to operate business as usual in these unusual and challenging times. As you may be aware we will be unable to accept clients and suppliers visiting Wild Thang HQ, but do not fear we have 10,000’s of products online and the team available ready to give you expert advice.
As a reminder our business hours are 8:30am-5:30pm Monday to Thursday & Friday 8:30am-4:30pm
On a positive note we continue to move ever closer to completing our world class HQ development, please see the latest updated images of the development. We will be sending out information about our virtual ‘Covid secure’ launch very soon so please keep your eyes peeled for exclusive video content & much more.
We very much appreciate your patience and understanding during this challenging time for us all.
Stay safe, stay well & together we will beat this virus Thang
Best wishes Team Wild Thang
If you have a question, query or requirement simply get in touch
Please see link to below that highlights the various extra precaution’s we have already put in place
Wild Thang proud to support the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2020
This year they have gone digital due to the impact of Covid-19 and it will be live streamed on a dedicated you tube channel on the 10TH of November which is fantastic. This will enable deserving shortlist nomination candidates to receive some much needed publicity highlighting the very best in the hospitality, event and tourism industry which we know has been very hard hit.
Andrew Dwerryhouse Wild Thang Managing Director commented: “After many years of supporting this fantastic and prestigious event it was great to hear that it was still going ahead even in the face of the Corona Virus Pandemic. We are proud to once again get involved & sponsor this award category as there has probably never been a more important moment to support one of the industry’s hardest hit due to Covid restrictions this year.
Big congrats to all the deserving short list nominations for Pub Of The Year, we wish you all much good luck & we personally can’t wait to get back to enjoying ourselves at some of these first class venues and visitor attractions as soon as it’s safe to do so. While it has been an incredibly challenging year for so many businesses it’s still important to support each other wherever, however and whenever you can so we can all survive & thrive.“
To find out more about the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2020 head over to their website
Photographs shown are from Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2019
We will never stop saying thank you to our amazing team and in these challenging covid times it’s still so important to let our team know that we care, and the door is always open!
A message from the senior management to our amazing team. “We know the past 6-7 Months have been challenging on so many levels and this will have had an impact on everyone’s physical and mental well-being at some point over that time. We want to personally thank you all for showing such resilience over the past months to help us overcome some of those challenges and the extra time, energy and efforts some individuals have freely given.
To all those who have gone out of their way to make sure even in these challenging times we are still delivering the ultimate service and products to our clients which gives us the best possible chance of surviving and thriving as an organisation. We know there are still many challenges relating to Covid 19 and its impact but we thought it was important to take a moment as a company and as a team to reflect on the positives that are happening even in the face of the virus and its impact on the company. We have been continuing to complete some work to the very highest of world class standards, adapt and innovate and are now closer than ever to completing the building development to finally create the best possible workplace environment for all our employees after 4 difficult years of planning.
We hope you enjoyed the little breakfast treat and please find enclosed a personalised Wild Thang water bottle for each member of the team as a reminder to stay hydrated, stay healthy and hopefully also avoid any cross contamination. Never has there been a more important time to look out for each other, follow all the safety guidelines to make sure we are a covid secure business.
Please remember the door is always open should you ever need to talk about any concerns related to your physical or mental wellbeing, support is always available as we are in this together. It’s good to talk and we want to talk about any concerns, there is also help and links available on the NHS website. Let’s remember to keep a positive outlook, work as a team and together we will beat this virus thang so we can survive, thrive and create a better future for every employee.”
From All the Management Team @ Wild Thang
Maybe our little initiative can be an inspiration to other companies or organisations to keep the teams morale or client positive and buoyant by making it personal. Secondary to the message we wanted to deliver as a company the added bonus and the reason for the green cap is to embrace reusability and sustainability - water bottles is one way of helping deliver a positive environmental impact.
Why not read a little more about our CSR commitments CSR
If you have a requirement for any type of quality branded or personalised merchandise we have so many options that can also include bespoke packaging, fulfilment and distribution so please don’t hesitate to get in touch as we are here to help with expert advice.
100% STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS BUT 100% MAKING SURE WE ARE A COVID SECURE WORKPLACE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY !
Along with all the other measures we have already put in place we are taking extra precautions for the safety of our staff, suppliers and clients at Wild Thang.
All visitors must wear a mask or face covering to enter,
sanitise their hands, sign in, keep 2m apart and have their temperature taken, we also have desk screens in reception.
We will continue to be vigilant during the Winter months to protect each other so we can get back to some normality, until then, stay safe.
We hope everyone who is going back to their places of work stay safe and keep their social distancing, we’ll be promoting it every step of the way!
Don't forget we have an extensive hygiene & protection range that can help your workplace become covid secure.
Wild Thang have been 100% open for business throughout the corona virus outbreak working remotely & working hard throughout that time for our clients. Like many businesses in the UK it’s a worrying time, our sales have understandably slowed, but we are now starting to create a little momentum with the easing of the lockdown rules.
Taking it step by step, we are open across all areas of the business including manufacturing & starting to reintroduce some of our amazing team.
It’s critically important that our employees, clients and suppliers know we are a Covid Secure Workplace so we are taking many extra precautions which include:
• Several hygiene stations fitted in the offices and production warehouse.
• A one way system through the building.
• Signage throughout the premises.
• Face covering snoods and personal hand sanitisers for all staff.
• Hand wash, Hand gels and wipes in rest areas.
• Extra contract cleaning in all areas.
• Split lunch & rest breaks to minimise numbers in rest areas.
All done to ensure that our amazing team’s health and safety is at the forefront of our minds. Wild Thang cannot wait to be back up to full strength and doing what we do best for our clients & partners.
We hope business increases over the coming weeks & months so we can bring more of our team back and get this show fully back on the road!
We hope everyone who is going back to their places of work stay safe and keep their social distancing, we’ll be promoting it every step of the way!
Don't forget we have an extensive hygiene & protection range that can help your workplace become covid secure.
