What a week! I am almost ready to fly home and I have had both the time of my life and one of the hardest weeks ever in China.
To say that the factory is buzzing is an understatement, its like a hornets nest on speed.
I have never had the pleasure of working with such a hard working bunch of people.
With our Bespoke sales having doubled in the past two months, we are all frankly going in to overdrive to keep up with demand. I have spent a good part of the week working out how to expand our production without interupting supply. Here you can see a photo of our ground floor.. .ready and waiting for machines!
So far our delivery has not suffered... well, I’ve not been able to launch any new Ready To Wear this month, but this is no big problem. The 8mm T joint models will be ready by the end of the month.
On the 8mm T joint, NEVER has something so simple been such a pain in the ass! It is the hardest component we have ever had to make and you can’t see it to look at it. I am certain of one thing... it will sell faster than we can make it!
Monday I will launch my video blog. Go to our You Tube TV station or Facebook fan site to see it. It will get posted as soon as I get a chance, most likely 10am UK time.
We have 24 positions advertised in the local area at the moment. We need to start beefing up our team. In today’s team photo, we have now grown to 94 people!
In this picture we are showing off the new team uniform. Whilst I like a nice smart black, I suppose I had to concede to the 35 degrees heat and black not necessarily being the best colour for our team! TD blue has just been offered (but I’m pleased to say some people still like the black!)
Here you can see a possible new finish. This is called Scratch finish. It was a complete accident actually, Someone was trimming down some acetate with a wire brush and I thought it looked rather nice. So I had them do this to my Sunglasses. I’ll show a few people and maybe you will see “SCRATCH” added on the Supertool finish!
Here you can see some of my new Sunglasses. I’ve still not got enough good mens metals (I know I’m leaving it tight) but the retro suns and ladies suns are looking fantastic. I’ll post some decent pics when I get back to London.
Finally, just a few pics from my recent walk around the workshop. Finishing touches to Calipers...
New retro fitting templates in the final stages...
Right, thats it for now. Let me know what you think of the Video blog... back to London on Tuesday.