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The business, which turned over £17.4 million in 2020 and employs 300, already has inhouse sewing, knitting and catalogue printing operations.
It plans to extend its apprenticeship programme and last year scooped a Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development.
“For decades cheap labour has encouraged the fashion industry to manufacture overseas with a disastrous effect on jobs here,” says Nieper.
“Currently two-thirds of emissions from UK clothing occur overseas. Manufacturing in Britain makes sustainable sense and businesses accountable.
“Printing and dyeing accounts for over 70 percent of the total carbon emissions in garment production. It’s not acceptable to shift the problem to where it is out of sight and out of mind. A garment from our factory creates 47 percent less emissions than a similar one made overseas.”