Quote ="Starbug"I have suggested that all the championship clubs should get together and set up their own brand , Best way would be to club together and purchase an existing local manufacturer and then source inital batch purchases from abroad for best economy and then bring in the ' prints ' from abroad for assembley over here
Group purchasing would mean that all the clubs would actually make some income out of it rather than at present where very few if any make a profit from merchandising'"
great idea.
it's worth noting that proposals were made a couple of years ago for one manufacturer to sign a central contract covering all clubs. I think the companies involved were Puma, Steeden and another one. It ended up never happening because the prices offered were no better than what each club could get individually anyway.
