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Cutting Edge winter 2011
by Lee, Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:00 Comments(0), Read all

The latest Cutting Edge magazine is now available in the downloads section or by clicking the image or link below.


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2012 Price survey
by Lee, Tuesday, 06 December 2011 09:55 Comments(0), Read all

The 2012 Price survey is now available in the downloads section.

The prices don’t vary much from the previous survey which we did in February to coincide with VAT changes at the time.

However I was really pleased to see an increase in the amount of members taking part, this makes our survey a really valuable tool as its totally comprehensive & gives a great indication of where we should be setting our own price points.

An interesting graph to look at was the added question “do you tack the waists on leather soles” an almost 50/50 split between the two options! Given the topics we’ve had on the subject in the past this can only fuel the debate!

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Name the bear
by Lee, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:19 Comments(0), Read all

ALL NAMES HAVE NOW BEEN SOLD _ COMPETITION CLOSED
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As the forum charity is especially close to our hearts this year we thought it'd be great to raise some funds for it by way of a prize draw or raffle.

We've settled on a Name The Bear prize draw. Below is a list of names to choose from and to make sure that everyone, including the mods can have a go we've asked Robin Healy to pick a name at random and to keep it totally secret until the 1st of January, 2012.

Each go is £5.00 and you can pay by using the donate button on the page.

Once you've made your choice of name and paid send me a PM and I'll highlight it on the list with your name showing.

If we can get all these sold quickly then we'll do the draw earlier.
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Here're a couple of pics of the prize:





Extras:
Tin of Heroes
Foot lotion and scrub
Aromatherapy box
Facial scrub
Kiwi foot silk spray
After Eights
Magic candle
Terry's mint Twilights
Box of Toffifee
Box of Cadbury milk chocolate biscuits
Box of mint and orange creams
Box of Terry's All Gold Dark Chocolates
Bottle of Blossom hill california wine
Bottle of Reservado wine
Bottle of Australian red wine
Bottle of South African Rose
Bottle of Sternthaler wine.

This list may grow depending on whether I receive any more donations.



NAMES
1. BENNY - toofatbyfar
2. BENJI - keytrophy
3. ROGER - x minit uk
4. BRIDGET - peter coulson
5. BRIAN - Phil Morland
6. DONNY - Phil fones via Rick.
7. ROSIE - peter coulson
8. EDWARD - Lee
9. HARRY - Hibsjo(SCO)
10. GRIZZLES - Mick Friend
11. RINGO -StevenB
12. JOHNNY - peter coulson
13. BUGGY - peter coulson
14. REGGIE - skippy
15. FRANKY - skippy
16. ROCKY - Lee
17. SAMMI - autolock
18. SAMMY - autolock
19. HONEY - shrimperfan
20. PEBBLES - thekeyvan
21. BROOK - peter coulson
22. COCO - stevecoco
23. CUTIE - keytrophy
24. BIEBER - Mick Friend
25. FUR-FACE - Peter Coulson
26. SUKI - thekeyvan
27. SUZIE - Gray
28. EDDIE - Iain
29. HUMPHREY - shrimperfan
30. SLEEPY - grahamparker
31. BARNEY - x minit uk
32. ARNOLD - StevenB
33. MAGGIE - hibsjo(SCO)
34. OSCAR - toofatbyfar
35. JENNY - peter coulson
36. REUBEN - Peter Coulson
37. HANNAH - peter coulson
38. SIENNA - peter coulson
39. SIANA - kobblers
40. PATRICK - grahamparker
41. IVOR - stutherunningshoe
42. IVAN - Gav
43. SARAH - peter coulson
44. LOU - Gav
45. COURTNEY - peter coulson
46. ABI - peter coulson
47. HAMISH - kobblers
48. PATTI - peter coulson
49. HENNA - peter coulson
50. JOJO - Gray


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Diversify your business at Trophex 2012
by TEN, Wednesday, 09 November 2011 09:03 Comments(0), Read all

Trophex 2012 will take place from 15th to 16th January 2012 at the NEC Pavilion in Birmingham, UK

Trophex is an annual exhibition which takes place every January at the NEC in Birmingham. Trophex is a dedicated exhibition for the trophy, awards and personalisation industry whether you are an exhibitor or a visitor. Every possible sector from the industry is represented: from the leading trophy wholesalers to the major engraving companies, clothing distributors to rubber stamping, outstanding glass and crystal awards to the very latest in the image transfer business – there really is something for everyone.

Next year the show takes place on Sunday 15th January from 10am-5pm and Monday 16th January from 10am-4pm. Trophex is free to attend and there’s free parking for everyone.

Visitors to the show can look for new suppliers, better deals, find out about new innovations and products on the market and take advantage of the many special offers found exclusively at the show. The good mix of both large and small companies represents all aspects of the industry under one roof. The show attracts many companies who exhibit every year as well as many new ones. Increase your margins with the many profitable ‘extras’ which will be on display for you to consider stocking. Network with other retailers, make valuable contacts, discuss questions face-to-face with suppliers and take home helpful information to use in your business.

Or why not think about exhibiting at the show? The quality of people who attend the show is always high. Trophex is attended by companies around the world from throughout the industry and is a great place for your company to launch new products, unveil new technologies, show new catalogues, meet with customers both old and new and give live demonstrations.

Previous exhibitors to Trophex include The Charles Birch Group and Davenport and Burgess. When reflecting on Trophex 2011, Andrea Jackson-Brown, Product Manager at Charles Birch said: “Our third Trophex exhibition proved to be a big success with double the orders written than the previous two shows. With the Charles Birch stand being 25% bigger than last year, we were able to display our trade house nameplate and sign service far better and this attracted huge interest both for the trade sign service and for the materials. Not surprisingly given the economic environment, customers seemed keener than ever to seek out bargains and to negotiate deals on trophies and gifts and so the Andrea's ‘Crazy Deals’ offer sheets generated a lot of new business. Needless to say we have booked our stand for 2012”.

Trophex 2011 saw the first ‘Trophex Awards’ at the show sponsored by Crystal Galleries. We were extremely pleased with the fantastic response for these from both the voters and entries alike. With a total of seven categories, exhibitors battled it out to be one of the lucky winners of the awards. Samples of each entry were displayed on the TEN stand at the show, attracting and encouraging visitors to vote for their favourite products. The voting commenced on the first day of the show, with the winners announced and presented by TEN publisher Colin Gallimore on the Monday. The awards will return to Trophex 2012 and will once again be very kindly sponsored by Crystal Galleries.

New companies to Trophex 2012 include Carneol Glass from Hungary. Carneol Glass was founded in 1996 by an artist who wanted to manufacture affordable pieces of art used in everyday life. Their impressive range includes plates, lamps, clocks and vases, as well as handmade and unique products in different shapes and sizes. Also new to the exhibition is Rowton from the UK, they have been serving the business gift industry for 28 years. Initially sourcing and engraving a wide range of glassware to suit most design and budgetary requirements, over the years the range has developed and new products have been added including an excellent range of gold and silver plated items. Today the company serves a number of markets including golf and sports organisations and mail order companies although their predominant market is promotional merchandising/business gifts. Ibrahim Sports from Pakistan is also new to Trophex. The company is professional manufacturers of metal and leather products specifically designed to individual customer requirements. They specialise in custom-made Championship Belts including wrestling, boxing, MMA and special event belts.

So don’t miss out on this great opportunity - register and book your space today!
Pre-register online at: www.trophex.com

Hill Media Ltd organise the exhibition and publish the leading magazine for the industry – TEN/EURO TEN – Trophy and Engraving News.

For further information about either visiting or exhibiting at Trophex 2012, please contact the organisers:

Visitors Contact:
Alison Cyster-White
Tel: +44 (0) 1442 826826
E-mail: alisoncwhite@aol.com

Exhibitors Contact:
Colin Gallimore
Tel: +44 (0) 1442 826826
E-mail: colingallimore@aol.com


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Betty
by Lee, Friday, 04 November 2011 09:19 Comments(0), Read all

You OK Betty? you've gone to ground?
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Jimmy Mizen foundation newsletter Sept 2011
by Lee, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:03 Comments(0), Read all

The latest copy of the forums supported charity "the Jimmy Mizen foundation" newsletter has just been published

download the full copy here
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The Jimmy Mizen foundation.
by Lee, Friday, 07 October 2011 15:22 Comments(0), Read all

We’ve given the Make-A-Wish foundation a fair crack of the whip, we’ve raised £1300 + pounds & feel now is the time to support something a little closer to Home. After several requests we’ve moved to supporting the Jimmy Mizen foundation.

Same reason as before, If you get some help give some help………
The new donation page is
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/shoerepairer
To read the reason why we are supporting such a worthy charity, please read Barry Mizens “Jimmy Mizen my Saturday Boy”
Thank you.
Lee
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ANDY'S ZAPPIFICATION COURSE...
by Lee, Saturday, 01 October 2011 13:00 Comments(0), Read all

ANDY'S ZAPPIFICATION COURSE!

we have a poll running this month "Can you vectorize a logo" & its become apparent that one thing a lot lack is the skills to put your customers logos on items!

Our king of engraving ANDY has kindly agreed to run a course & the way it will work is those taking part will download tasks & images set by Andy & then we will at our leisure use our developing expertise to vectorize the tasks using the forum as a base to discuss & improve our abilities!

"I think if we stick with gravo g5 and 98 software the bones of them are pretty similar to work with start off with a basic image and run with it for a while until most of the people involved have cracked it then we can draw a line under that part and move up to something a little harder maybe ending up with re-drawing a logo by hand instead of vectorisation as long as we dont rush it along i'm sure people can pick up some skills

cheers Andy"

The course is published in the trade section, you can join the trade user group (if your not already a member)HERE..................

We are suggesting a donation to the forum charity if you take part & you can download the first image to play with from HERE.....................,

what are you waiting for lets get started!
CLICK HERE....................zap your logo so you shall


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Supplier of the year award 2011
by Lee, Monday, 26 September 2011 11:29 Comments(0), Read all

I was pleased to present the "Shoe repair forum, Supplier of the year award" at the evening meal on Saturday Evening.

This years Winner was

T. Colledge & son



They had a huge majority of the votes & many nominations specifically mentioned both customer service & their website, with comments such as
Quote:
Brilliant website, excellent service and an all round nice friendly firm. Pleasure to do business with them

Quote:
Great support, really useful website, being able to purchase single units.

Quote:
always helpful sort out problems quickly

Quote:
Old school supplier, top service. Great Web site. Friendly family sized business.


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10 million browsed pages competition
by Lee, Monday, 26 September 2011 10:30 Comments(0), Read all

Pictured is Stevenb who presented Chiefwiggum ( Danny Mizen ) with his bounty for being the closest to guess when the site would pass the 10 million browsed pages.


He won

A Punch shoe care hamper
500 Charles Birch branded keys
5 Cops of Standard Engineering Geneva thread
4 spoils of SiServe polyester thread
A £50 Gravograph voucher
36 Cans of Shoe String / woly 3x3 Protector
A £100.00 Glenway products sample pack
A T-Colledge bundle of stock goody bag
A Davenports Bianchi 102 Key machine
U-Marq Key tag & Pet Tag starter & display kits
Keyline branded clothing

& no shoe repairer forum competition would be complete with out Maltesers & a £25.00 bumper box was donated by Benchmark.

(All said in a Suzy Perry, gadget show styly)

Thank you to all our sponsors who got 100% behind our prize fund, once again together we gave one of the biggest prizes in shoe repair history! ...
 
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Cutting Edge magazine - winter 2011
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The latest Cutting Edge magazine is now available in the downloads section or by clicking the image or link below.


Download the Winter 2011 edition here.

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Christmas prize draw for the Jimmy Mizen Foundation.
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As the forum charity is especially close to our hearts this year we thought it'd be great to raise some funds for it by way of a prize draw or raffle.

We've settled on a Name The Bear prize draw. Below is a list of names to choose from and to make sure that everyone, including the mods can have a go we've asked Robin Healy to pick a name at random and to keep it totally secret unti ...

by kobblers, Wednesday, 30 November 2011 14:58 [ Read all ]
 
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