Following our win at the 2013 Medway Business Awards we were approached by BBC South East Television to make a short documentary on our social and ethical work in Bangladesh
Apprenticeship Schemes at Elsatex
Apprenticeship Scheme at Elsatex
As a company that advocates apprenticeship schemes in their business, Elsatex is delighted to announce that apprentice Abbie Thornton has completed her first year!
Being an award winning company we are committed to working with young talent and take great pleasure in helping our apprentices develop their skills and knowledge within a business environment. We have also seen that their work really does have an impact in the everyday life of the company.
Abbie joined Clearance Textiles nine months ago as a trainee Marketing Manager. She had previously spent two years at MidKent College completing her Extended Business Diploma and finished with an impressive two A’s and one A*. Abbie says she is having a great time with us and thinks the most rewarding part of her apprenticeship is the responsibilities we have given her.
Being part of a team
All of our apprentices are part of the team and we encourage them to use their own initiative and to share their knowledge, experiences and passions with us. Abbie is a keen designer and was delighted to be given the task to create a logo and packaging design for a new Clearance Textile product range.
The job has now been completed and the new product, which includes Abbie’s logo and packaging design, is now available to buy in shops. This is a prime example of how empowering young talent and letting them complete tasks independently can be rewarding to both the employee as well as the employer.
She describes her colleagues as generous and willing to do anything to help. This just goes to show that a good working environment will help to nurture apprentices. Clearance Textiles certainly deliver and also enjoy keeping on-going relationships with previous apprentices.
In her spare time Abbie enjoys meeting up with her friends and going for long walks with her beloved dog, Tilly. We look forward to seeing Abbie continue to shine and develop her skills within the company.
If you are looking for an apprenticeship and would like to work for Clearance Textiles, which is part of the Elsatex Group, please do let us know.
Elsatex spring boards apprentice to fame!
Working with apprentices
It’s been just over a year since our apprentice Terri-Jane Harris left the Elsatex Group (including Clearance Textiles and Victoria London Textiles) to travel the world. Now back from a carefully planned four months round-the-world trip, we caught up with Terri-Jane to find out more about her successful and growing business ‘Terri Towelling’ which supplies hairdressing towels to salons across the UK.
After finishing her studies at MidKent College in Gillingham in 2013, she joined the Elsatex Group as a marketing apprentice. Fresh from college, Terri-Jane brought with her a variety of ideas and new skills, all welcomed by the growing Elsatex team. These included implementing new marketing strategies such as flyers, email campaigns, website development, brand identity. On joining the team Terri-Jane said “While some of my peers stayed on in education, or went to university, I felt training in the work environment would benefit my personality more than further academic learning”.
During her first year at Elsatex Terri-Jane continued to hone her marketing skills and in 2014 entered the prestigious Kent Excellence in Business Awards (KEiBA’S). She entered the Apprentice of the Year category, and was delighted to be selected as one of three finalists to go through to the gala awards evening. Unfortunately she didn’t win the Apprenticeship of the Year award, but her infectious enthusiasm and commitment gained her great recognition within the county.
Hairdressing Towels
With the travelling bug behind her for the time being, Terri-Jane has now taken back the lead at Terri Towelling, a company she set up while working at Elsatex. The company is now growing from strength to strength and is currently selling over 3000 hairdressing towels a month! The majority of sales are from her Ebay on-line store and the future sets to be bright for Terri-Jane. With her confidence growing she is looking to add new ranges to her collection, and also working on ways to expand this niche but successful business.
As a leading supplier of hairdressing towels, the Elsatex Group are still very much part of Terri-Jane’s road to success. We supply Terri Towelling with all its towelling requirements and will continue to develop new products for the hairdressing market. We currently stock a number of colours that are appearing in salons across the UK, including; Hot Pink, Navy, Grey, Beige as well as the bleach proof range of towels.
We love working with Terri-Jane and hope this young entrepreneur continues to gain recognition within her field and look forward to partnering her in projects for many years to come.
We stock the Hot Pink Towel!
Luxury pink towels added to the Victoria London
Designed by Victoria London is a luxury textile brand owned by our parent company Elsatex Ltd. It offers high end affordable textile products to the retail market. They have recently launched the desirable Hot Pink Towel to their range, we think it is brightens up a dull August day so wanted to share it with our customers.
Pink towels
We understand that pink is not the colour for everyone, but followers of fashion are going to have to get used to it, as this autumn the fashion retailers will be filling their rails with many different shades of pink! To coincide with the latest colour trend we have just launched the first Victoria London Hot Pink Luxury towel.
Pink is the new colour for Autumn 15
In colour psychology pink represent compassion, nurturing and love. It allows a women to feel feminine and romantic and also gives a sign of hope. It is currently the colour of choice for many high achieving women and discovery websites such as pinterest are full of ideas and projects on how to work with the many shades of pink.
As a leading manufacturer of luxury towels, our design team are reactive to new trends and can offer a large spectrum of possibilities with colour. This also includes the ability to dye towels to clients specific needs.
Luxury towels at Victoria London
We are working on a number of colour schemes to add to the Victoria London towel range and so far have been delighted with the results. Last week a container arrived from our factory in Bangladesh with the new edition to the range – this sensuous luxury hot pink towel.
With the autumn months not far away, this towel is certainly going to brighten up any bathroom, spa hotel, beauty saloon, shop window as well as your mood. This eye catching bright pink towel is also a great way to attract more customers to your store.
So whether you are a retailer or wholesaler who want to add a touch of class to your business at an affordable price, then do get in touch on 01634 719984