Services
Modern design + manufacturing + fulfillment = UNITEN
Our services include everything from design to fulfillment. The traditional approach runs through all four stages — but packages can be tailored to fit the way your company already works.
Stage 01
Creative Design
We begin with your brand — its history, heritage and the experience it creates — and translate it into a uniform collection with a clear point of view.
- Brand research
- Client brand history and heritage
- Creative direction
- Mood boards and design language
- Colour palettes
- Palettes drawn from brand identity
- Design sketches
- Concept sketches for each garment
- Technical flats
- Flats and sketches detailing the desired outcome in full
Stage 02
Product Development
Design becomes a manufacturable product: fabrics sourced to performance requirements, tech packs written, patterns cut, samples fitted and refined.
- Fabric & trim sourcing
- Sourced or custom-made to specification
- Performance requirements
- Technical components identified up front
- Tech packs
- Complete specification for the factory
- Pattern making
- Pattern development and grading rules
- Sampling
- Sample creation, fittings and adjustments
- Branded details
- Interior labelling, hangtags, branded hardware
- Packaging
- Packaging development
Stage 03
Manufacturing
Production is prepared, tested on real wearers, then manufactured and quality controlled through our international factory relationships.
- Grading
- Prep for production across the full size range
- Wear testing
- Dressing a test group of company ambassadors
- Feedback loop
- Evaluating feedback and adjusting accordingly
- Manufacturing
- Producing the final order and subsequent re-orders
- Quality control
- Inspection against the approved specification
- Shipping
- Consolidated shipping for company-initiated distribution
Stage 04
Fulfillment
We keep the programme running: importation, inventory, employee ordering and ongoing distribution so uniforms arrive where they are needed.
- Importation
- Importing products and establishing a fulfillment centre
- Inventory
- Ongoing inventory and distribution system
- Ecommerce ordering
- A system for staff to order their uniform online
- Distribution
- Delivery to sites, ships, hubs or individuals
- Programme support
- Ongoing management of the uniform programme
Engagement models
Choose all four stages, or build your own combination
Creative Design
Design-only engagement. We deliver the creative direction and technical design package for you to take forward.
- —Creative Design
Design, Development & Manufacturing
From first sketch through to produced garments, delivered to a single location for your own distribution.
- —Creative Design
- —Product Development
- —Manufacturing
Full Service
The complete programme — design, development, manufacturing and fulfillment, including importation, inventory and employee ordering.
- —Creative Design
- —Product Development
- —Manufacturing
- —Fulfillment
Tailored Combination
Clients can also create their own blend of services to fit the way their company already works.
- —Any combination of the four stages
Not sure which package fits?
Describe the programme and we will map it against the four stages with you.