Direct Textiles Ltd, already one of the UK’s largest trade only garment decorators, is delighted to announce the recent acquisition of the company formally known as Instock Garment Logos Ltd.

For over 20 years Instock has been recognised as one of the country’s most established embroidery companies’s and has a wealth of experience that will be a valuable asset to us going forward.

The recent acquisition will significantly add to Direct Textiles existing embroidery capacity, which has now risen to over 100 heads. This will allow for the production in excess of 12,000 embroidered garments a week on a standard shift.

Direct Textiles are already recognised as one of the UK’s largest screen printing companies, with seven fully automatic state of the art MHM printing machines capable of printing over 30,000 garments a day.

The increase in capacity will provide customers’ the ability to offer very short lead times on all order quantities for either print or embroidery.

Mark Somerfield ( MD ) commented that he felt the acquisition was an important step forward for the company, who have also invested recently in digital direct to garment printers, and the latest Tisoma energy saving gas dryers.

“We have always felt that our embroidery capacity was lacking a little so we are all very excited that we can now provide the highest levels of service across the board.

When I started the company 11 years ago I had a vision to create the ultimate trade only one stop shop for decorated textiles within the promotional and corporate markets, we are constantly looking to improve and help our customers gain business by offering a flexible approach, and very quick response to their needs.

We have all aspects of garment decoration, including transfer production and processing in house, and with a dedicated customer service team and art department who will provide the fastest response times to quotes and enquiries.”

Another part of the Direct Textiles Group is Direct Trade Bags, a separate facility who focus on supplying and decorating eco bags, anything from cotton shoppers, jute, canvas, polyprop and paper laminate bags are all produced at a dedicated facility just outside Nottingham.

With stock in excess of 1 million bags Direct Trade Bags are positioned to supply a number of markets with a quick cost effective solution to the ever growing eco bag demands.

We have produced over 11 million bags since we started the company in August 2008 and demand continues to increase for this type of product. As all of the bags are in stock on site we can guarantee a 5 working day turnaround from artwork sign off.

You can contact a member of the Direct Textiles customer service team on.

sales@directtextilesltd.co.uk or 01522-705577