You are certainly better off without Tesco but its always a ball-ache when you go to a company in good faith and they take your ideas but this is business after all :)
You are certainly better off without Tesco but its always a ball-ache when you go to a company in good faith and they take your ideas but this is business after all :)
are there any issues of school logo copywrite?
a 5% kickback is useless, schools can use uniform sales as a good profit centre......
1 Hour T-shirt printing shop in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Logobear t-shirt print and embroidery. 74 Clayton Street. Newcastle. NE1 5PG. UK
From my understanding Schools are not allowed to profit from Uniforms and Photographs. Most get round this as the suppliers offer a "donation".
In terms of copyright, I know of loads of school outfitters that do not have the rights to produce school uniforms for certain schools but still do so I would assume there is no copyright on the school badge.
Who is going to contest the copyright over a school badge....the schools dont have the money or time to do it so even if there was protection it would never be contested in anything more than a telephone call or letter asking the user to stop.
The company behind the Tesco venture, Third Axis, has bit of previous when it comes to selling embroidered school uniform.
They set-up yourschooluniform.com and sold the idea to the Grattan shopping catalogue. They made horrendous losses for several years. Grattan finally realised that the Third Axis business model was fundamentally flawed and walked away from it.
Tesco subcontract their embroidery and dispatch to Slick Stitch in Wolverhampton. No doubt they have negotiated rock bottom per thousand stitch rates but if you are a commission embroiderer you want reasonable runs not the stop/start of individual orders from Joe Public.
It will be interesting to see how Tesco will continue with a venture that cannot be profitable if you ship for free. Particularly one that does not contribute to additional footfall in their stores.
Who says it cant be profitable to ship for free?? We do on everything!
You'll also find that tesco can foot the bill for a lost leader for a very very long time, it wont be costing them much compared to the perceived benefit customers have from getting their uniforms from a "reputable" supplier they know and love and the gains that brings.
Monster thread bump.
Tesco have pulled out of the embroidered school clothing business and will close their website in February 2019. They increased their prices, adjusted the fabric quality and introduced delivery charges but all to no avail.
Their contractors Slick Stitch have decided to run the business on their own account, but you have to wonder if Tesco did a deal with them to avoid the PR disaster of a complete cessation of service.
So the supermarkets don't always get it right.
Justin (14-01-2019)
They look like a Slick outfit, we do a little bit of local School related work and Schools can't profit from schoolwear it's true but there are always to support them. It's not a big part of our business as really it's low margin high volume model but we did find that the Tescos product was left wanting compared to what we could supply decorated ourselves and parents would turn to us afterwards for better quality at a slightly lower price too. All big business these days sem to want to take a slice of whatever they can but what they can't compete with is the knowledge and support that a local supplier can provide their customers. We have local office supplies companies offering clothing but they don't have the knowledge we do, they want bigger orders that they can outsource so they don't help smaller local businesses either which is where we found our niche.