Corporate · decorated in-house
Corporate Workwear NZ-Wide, Branded in Auckland
Corporate workwear NZ-wide is the one piece of your brand nobody signs off. The website goes through three rounds of proofs and the polo gets ordered off an email, so the logo ends up a different size on the shirts than the jackets and two shades off the brand guide on both. We decorate corporate clothing in Glenfield — polos, corporate shirts, softshells and knitwear — set the placement and thread colours once, and keep them on record so the next order is the same job rather than a fresh guess.
Decorated in Glenfield, couriered to the office — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.
Before you ask
- What we do
- Garments, decorated with your logo — stitched or pressed in our own Glenfield workshop. Not promotional merchandise: no mugs, pens or drink bottles.
- Who we deal with
- Offices, professional services, agencies, franchises and multi-site teams, from four people to four hundred. One contact, one quote, one delivery.
- Methods
- Logos stitched in-house on our own machine; names, roles and full-colour artwork pressed in-house on our own heat press.
- Reorders
- Your logo, placement measurement and thread codes stay on record, so a starter in March matches the team kitted out last year.
What we supply
The office uniforms that a corporate team actually wears
Most corporate uniforms are three or four garments and a jacket, not a catalogue. We decorate them — we do not manufacture them — so you can supply stock you already buy, or we will source the blanks and quote them in the same line. Custom corporate clothing and corporate wear NZ-wide, all decorated in the one Glenfield workshop.
Which method a garment takes is decided by the artwork and the fabric rather than by preference, and a corporate logo is usually the harder of the two. The embroidery and printing pages explain each method in full.
Why corporate is different
Corporate apparel is a harder brief than it looks
A uniform for office staff is not the same brief as one for a worksite, and it is not durability that decides it. Corporate work uniforms fail on consistency instead — four differences below change what we recommend before they change what you pay.
Your logo has small type in it
Most corporate logos carry a company name, and a good many carry a strapline under it. Thread has a floor: below roughly 4mm a letterform stops being a letterform and becomes a thickening. We will tell you where that line falls on your artwork before anything is stitched, and what the alternatives are — drop the strapline, stitch the mark and press the words, or go up a size and use the pocket area rather than the chest.
Brand colours are thread colours
Your brand guide has a hex value and probably a Pantone. Thread comes in a fixed palette and does not have either. We match to the nearest, show you it on the actual fabric before the run, and then record the thread code — so every later order is that same decision rather than the nearest one on the day. A pressed transfer gets closer to an exact colour than thread does, which is sometimes the reason to press a logo rather than stitch it.
Nobody washes it the same way
A school polo and a clinic tunic go through a predictable hot cycle. Branded office wear goes home in a bag and comes back washed to no standard at all — hot, cold, tumbled, hung. That is an argument for stitching over pressing on anything worn weekly, and for picking a garment colour that does not show its age unevenly across a team.
Two offices ordering separately
Multi-site is where corporate uniforms actually come apart: Wellington orders in April, Auckland in September, and nobody compares them until both are in the same room. Same setup, same recorded placement measurement, same thread codes, regardless of which office sends the email or who is running the ordering that year.
Two ways to start
Ready to sort the office uniform?
Most quotes go back the same business day. There is no obligation and no minimum order.
Or call 021 082 12843 — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.
What happens next
- 1. You send rough numbers and what the team does.
- 2. We come back with garment options and a price per garment, decoration included, usually the same business day.
- 3. Once you go ahead, we confirm logo size and placement in writing before anything is decorated.
How it works
How a corporate order runs
Three steps, and nothing is decorated until somebody on your side has approved a proof in writing.
Step 1
Send the logo and the headcount
Vector artwork if you have it, a brand guide if there is one, which garments you want it on and rough numbers by size. Rough is genuinely fine — we will come back with what we would change and why.
Step 2
We quote it
Garment options and one price per garment with the decoration already in it, given per size run. Not a garment cost and a branding cost for you to add together. Most quotes go back the same business day.
Step 3
Proof, decorate, courier
You approve a digital proof, and we confirm logo size, placement and thread codes in writing. Then the order is stitched or pressed here in Glenfield and couriered to the office.
Embroidery carries a one-off setup if we have not already set your logo up at that size — that is the step where your artwork becomes machine instructions, and the exact stitch count and price are only known once it is done. One setup covers your garments at the same logo size, so polos and softshells share it; a business shirt's lighter fabric usually needs its own, and so does a much larger version for a back panel or a bag, because it is not just the same stitching enlarged. Your logo stays yours, the stitch file we build from it is ours, and we keep it on record so the next order never pays setup again.
Managed supply
Reorders that match what the team is already wearing
Companies rarely reorder a uniform. They order two polos and a softshell for somebody starting on the 14th. Our job is making that arrive looking like it came out of the same box as everyone else’s, two years later.
Your logo, kept on record
Set up once, then stored with the size, the placement measurement and the thread codes we agreed. Every later order runs from it, so consistency is not something a new office manager has to know about to get right.
New starters are a normal order
Two garments for one person is an ordinary job, not a favour, and the setup was paid long ago. Send the name, the size and the garment and it runs off the setup we already hold.
A spec sheet you can hand over
Garment codes, colours, logo position and thread numbers, written down. Useful when somebody else takes over the ordering, or when a second office starts placing its own — we courier corporate uniforms NZ-wide off the one spec. Useful too if you ever want a second opinion on a quote.
What we are not is a promotional-merchandise supplier. Corporate gifts — mugs, pens, drink bottles, branded stationery, gift boxes for clients — are a different trade with different suppliers, and we do not do any of it. We decorate garments and the bags that go with them, and if you want the mugs too you will need somebody else for that half. We also do not hold stock on your behalf, and there is no ordering portal or login: reorders run by email or a phone call, off the setup we already hold, which is fast for the size of company we deal with and would not be for a national chain. And we do not sell to your staff directly — everything is quoted to the business, decorated in Glenfield and couriered. If what you want is a supplier who runs the whole programme including the wearer-facing side, we are not that, and it is worth knowing now rather than three emails in. If you are weighing up suppliers, our guide on how to choose a uniform supplier sets out what to ask any of them, us included.
Questions
Questions companies ask before they order
If yours is not here, ask when you request a quote and you will get a straight answer.
Do you do corporate gifts as well — mugs, pens, drink bottles?
No. We decorate garments and the bags that go with them, and that is the whole of it. Promotional merchandise is a different trade with different suppliers and different minimums, and doing it badly alongside uniforms would serve nobody. If you need both, most merchandise suppliers are happy to quote their half and we will quote ours. What we will do is make sure the logo on the gear matches whatever they produce, because we will have the thread codes and the artwork sizes written down.
Can you decorate garments we already own?
Yes, and plenty of companies start there — a rebrand on stock you already hold, or an office that has been buying its own polos for years. Send them in and we decorate what you have. The one thing worth checking first is the fabric: a heavy technical face or a waterproof coating changes what will press, and a very loose knit changes what will stitch cleanly, so tell us the garment and we will say before it arrives rather than after. If you would rather not manage two suppliers, we source the blanks and quote them with the decoration in one line.
Should our logo be embroidered or printed?
Embroidered for anything worn weekly — polos, corporate shirts, softshells, knitwear. Thread survives a domestic wash that a surface print will not, and a stitched logo normally outlasts the garment it sits on. Print earns its place where the artwork has more colour in it than thread can sensibly carry, where there is fine type you do not want to lose, and on names and job titles that change with the person. Caps are the one exception in the other direction: those are embroidery only, because pressing a curved seamed crown needs a cap press and we do not have one yet. We stitch here on our own machine and press every transfer here on our own heat press; the transfers themselves are printed for us by a trusted partner.
Is there a minimum order?
No. Four polos or four hundred. Larger runs price better per unit because the setup is spread further, but there is no minimum quantity and no minimum spend. A very small order does carry a handling charge, for the same reason the per-unit price moves: setting the machine up and running it takes much the same work for four garments as for forty. The charge is on your quote before you commit to anything. Speciality film is the one exception to no minimum: reflective and fluorescent logos, and fabrics that need a film made for them, start at ten transfers of each design at each size (twenty for fluorescent), counted in transfers rather than garments. The quote says which your garment needs.
How much does corporate apparel cost?
Custom corporate uniforms are quoted per job, because the garment, the decoration method and the quantity all move the number — a stitched logo on eighty polos and a pressed name on six softshells are not the same job at different scales. You get one price per garment with the decoration already in it, given per size run, rather than a garment cost and a branding cost for you to add together. GST and freight are their own lines. Send the logo and rough numbers and the quote usually comes back the same business day.
How long does a corporate order take?
Allow 5–21 working days from artwork approval. The short end is a top-up off a stitch file we already hold with the blanks in stock; the long end is a first order that has to be digitised, sampled and approved, on garments a wholesaler has to send us. A rollout across several sites sits nearer the long end because the approvals take longer than the stitching does. If you have a date — a conference, an office opening, a rebrand going live — say so in the first email and we will tell you straight away whether it is realistic rather than finding out three weeks in.
Can we collect an order, or come and see samples?
No, neither. We are a service-area business — the workshop is in Glenfield and there is no counter, so there are no walk-ins and nothing is collected in person. A sample comes to you by courier, charged as a one-garment order; artwork and approvals happen over email, and the finished gear is couriered to the office: corporate uniforms Auckland-wide, and everywhere else in the country on the same terms. For a lot of corporate buyers that is the faster arrangement anyway, since nobody has to leave the building to approve anything.
Send us the logo and the headcount
Usually same-business-day replies, Mon–Fri. Rough numbers are enough to start.