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With the nation’s economy in a full fledged recession I have noticed that our customers are necessarily more price conscious then ever. With school budgets being squeezed, even at the collegiate level, and independent teams having a near impossible time raising money or finding a sponsor it is indeed a challenging time.

Particularly for a company like ours, who prides itself on manufacturing top quality products regardless of cost, it presents an interesting dilemma. When dealing with a cash-strapped customer what do we do? Should we “cheapen” our product to get a sale? Should we use less expensive (yet less quality) fabrics in the construction of our uniforms? That would be an easy way to get the price down. Should we take some shortcuts when sewing our products or maybe be a little stingier with our cuts? After all, we cut all of our products big anyway. Nobody would notice if a couple inches were missing; would they? Well, we would. (more…)

As manufacturers of high quality, custom-made athletic uniforms we are accustomed to doing a majority of our business in the so called “major” sports. By that I mean baseball, basketball and football. Certainly, soccer and sometimes lacrosse have become quite popular as well; particularly in certain areas.

Wrestling Is More Popular Than We Thought

I am still amazed however by the popularity of non “mainstream” sports. This year in particular we have sold an enormous amount of wrestling uniforms. Much of this business is a result of increased efforts on our part to improve the wrestling section of our website. Admittedly, we are getting a tremendous amount of e-mails and phone calls as a result of this. The number of young people participating in this sport is quite remarkable; particularly in the Midwest.

Wrestling teams typically buy singlets to compete in; they also require accessory items like warm-up suits, shorts, t-shirts and sometimes even team jackets. A normal college or high school team might buy (more…)

I have been asked more and more this year, particularly in the last several weeks, if the lousy economy and all of the depressing financial news has affected our business. As the President of a company that manufactures athletic uniforms you would think that like most other businesses the answer would be a resounding yes. That is not really the case however. Our business is stable and even up in many areas.

As I consider this phenomenon it has occurred to me just exactly how (more…)