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Fashion companies win Queen's Award for Enterprise 2020

Fashion retailers and brands, including Celtic and Co, Seraphine, Frugi, David Nieper, Avenue51, and Merci Maman, have been named as recipients of this year’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Ethical children’s clothing brand Frugi has been awarded two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for Sustainable Development and International Trade. It is one of...

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David Nieper factory celebrates second anniversary

David Nieper, the Derbyshire based luxury fashion brand for women over 50 are celebrating the second anniversary of their cutting factory opening in Alfreton. Launched in 2015, the company invested 750,000 pounds in the new factory, implementing state of the art technology to aid production. Now, two years later, the company has cut of over...

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David Nieper launches sewing school

Derbyshire-based womenswear label David Nipper has launched a new sewing school to help address the textile industries skills deficit and to nurture local talent by passing on its specialist skills. The sewing school will be run by two of David Nieper’s most accomplished dressmakers: Carol Shaw, with 14 years’ experience and Sue Cook with 27...

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David Nieper founders receive Lifetime Achievement honour

Founders of British fashion brand, David Nieper, and his son, Christopher Nieper,have been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 ECMOD Direct Commerce Awards, for their outstanding contribution to “British fashion and the home shopping industry”. The father and son team, were recognised for their 50-year commitment to...

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David Nieper's scholarship highlights fashion for women 50 plus

British fashion designer David Nieper has launched a new 5,000 pound scholarship to encourage students at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) to design fashion for women over the age of fifty, following the success of his scholarship last year. The David Nieper scholarship, which is now in itssecond year, has been extended to include over 200...

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David Nieper offers university scholarship

British fashion designer David Nieper has launched a 3,000 pound scholarship, offering one Nottingham Trent University fashion design student the opportunity to focus on fashion that’s ‘Made in Britain’. The Derbyshire-based designer and manufacturer, employs 230 people in the area, said that the aim of the scholarship is to provide students...