The Final Nortee Blog

Dear everyone,

We are nearing the end of the term, and the year(!). We are starting to wind down and will be going out seperate ways come July.

We just would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us from the start until the end. We would also like to say thank you to Northumbria University and Young Enterprise for allowing us this opportunity to allow us to start up our company and learn on the job, we have learnt so much.

As of today, we will not check our emails, Facebook or Twitter, if you do, please note that we WILL NOT reply.

Take care as always,
The Nortee Apparel Team

Event: Metro Centre Young Enterprise Trade Fair Round Up

Hey guys!

Where do I begin writing this out! We had a great day at the Young Enterprise Trade Fair at the Metrocentre, Gateshead today! The turnout was spectacular and we enjoyed selling our t-shirts which were being sold left, right and centre!

As a company that is competing against other teams like you see in the retail high street, we knew that we had to try and stand out as much as possible, and before the trade fair, we had everything sorted. Everything from tissue paper, paper bags, our prices and also our very unique flyers which has a QR Code* that as we are aware throughout the event, no one has thought of! Even though we had a small stand, we worked well to stand out as much as possible and we were situated in a prime location!

As time flew by, we kept selling by the hour and was really surprised by the amount of support and compliments from customers and the judges for Nortee Apparel! Even though we didn’t win any award, we feel that we did extremely well and enjoyed the experience of selling our products at the trade fair, and hope this will continue in the near future.

We would like to extend our thanks to Young Enterprise North East and the Metrocentre for allowing the trade fair to take place!

Even though we didn’t win any award, the experience of selling our products in the Metrocentre is priceless because we have learnt so much.

As for photos, click on this link which will take you to the photos on our Facebook page!

Take care,
Jonathan, Dan, Rebecca, Kay and Nazmin

* A QR Code, or Quick Response Code, is a unique barcode that when scanned with an app on your smartphone, such as Google Goggles, will lead you to our website!

3, 2, 1, We’re Live and Kicking!

Hey!

The Nortee Apparel team have been trying to make the Nortee Apparel website bug free, with assistance from our external mentor, Richard. We’ve been working for the past few weeks, and we can happily declare that our website is now…live!

We would like to say thank you for your patience and that the very first few customers who purchase from our website will be eligible to receive free shipping, but however this is limited to UK residents only.

We hope you like our website!

If you have any feedback and want to let us know you can comment on the blog or you can email us at: norteeshop@yahoo.com.

Take care,
Jonathan

Metro Centre Trade Fair

Hey!

With a few days to go before the Metro Centre Trade Fair, we’ve been pretty busy designing what the stall could look like and also been doing some last minute preparations for the trade fair!

We are really excited for this event and we hope to see you around!

We would also like to say that students with a valid university/college ID or NUS card will get 10% off their purchase!

Sunday 5th February 2012 from 11am – 5pm!

at the Exhibition Square, Metro Centre
(Exhibition Square is situated between the Yellow and Blue Quarters, near Primark) 

In order to get to the Metro Centre please refer to the Metro Centre website for more information. (I have linked directly to the “Customer Information” page for you for connivence)

In order to get to Exhibition Square, please refer to this map. (This is a PDF file)

We hope to see you around!

Take care,
Jonathan

Upcoming Event: Metro Centre Trade Fair

Hey!

Hope you have had a great Christmas and New Year!

We are pleased to announce that we have been accepted to participate at the Young Enterprise Trade Fair Event at the Gateshead Metro Centre! This is a fantastic opportunity for us to showcase the t-shirts and get more brand exposure, and for you guys to meet the team as well!

We are very excited for the event to take place soon and will be at the event on:

Sunday 5th February 2012 from 11am – 5pm!

at the Exhibition Square, Metro Centre
(Exhibition Square is situated between the Yellow and Blue Quarters, near Primark) 

In order to get to the Metro Centre please refer to the Metro Centre website for more information. (I have linked directly to the “Customer Information” page for you for connivence)

In order to get to Exhibition Square, please refer to this map. (This is a PDF file)

As for the website, that is still being constructed and will hopefully get up and running before the end of January!

We hope to see you then!

Take care,
Jonathan

Photos

Hey everyone,

We’re being told from some of our friends that the pictures on the blog can’t be viewed properly.

We think the issue is with WordPress and hope they will fix it as soon as possible, however the photos are in the XX and XY album on our Facebook page, so check it out :) (please like the page too and follow us on Twitter!)

Still, if you would like one of our XX and XY t-shirts, let us know on our blog, Twitter, Facebook or if you know us personally, we’ll keep one and send it to you with a handcrafted gift box as soon as possible! The website is due to be launched on Wednesday so keep your eyes peeled, especially with our promotional offers!

Take care, especially with this Arctic weather,

Jonathan
Team Nortee

Getting ready to fly…!

Hey all,

We’re really happy with the first lot of tees that arrived today, it shows all our hard work over the past few months!

We’re looking forward to our website going live next Wednesday (21st December), and during that time you’ll be sure to bag some great promotions, so keep checking our Twitter and Facebook for more details!

Our friends at Bluebird Press have done a fantastic job of both the designwork and printing, the quality is far better than we expected. Big cheers goes to you guys!

As we mentioned earlier, we’ll be at the historic Newcastle Quayside Market on Sunday! We’d love to see a few of you come down and see us!

Anyway, see you soon!

Take care and all the best,

Jonathan
Team Nortee

Wey! They Are Here!

Our first batch of tees are here! Small, medium and large in both male and female styles will be up for sale on the website sometime within the next week (probably looking at next Wednesday now).

Folded XX.XY.

male and female

In the mean time you can grab one at the Quayside Market this Sunday between 9am and 2:30pm…support our Young Enterprise journey and pop down and see us to take a look at the tees and snap one up in time for christmas (and to keep us company) – its a great atmosphere down there on a Sunday and the weathers not looking bad either, great chance to pick up some last minute pressies..

just delivered

the hats not for sale...

Dan

Team Nortee