25 years of PenCarrie

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25 years of PenCarrie
This month PenCarrie celebrates its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we’ve gathered together some of the
landmark moments from the history of the one of the UK’s pioneering multi-brand distributors
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wenty-five years ago, in April 1991,
Paul Persey, his sister-in-law Penny
(Pen) and his wife Caroline (Carrie)
founded a new Exeter-based startup, and PenCarrie was born. The fledgling
venture would usher in a new era of multibrand distributors and reshape the very fabric
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of imprintable garment supply in the UK. In
the same year, Images, a new trade journal
dedicated to the garment decoration industry,
was launched, and over the following
quarter of a century we have followed
closely PenCarrie’s progress and growth,
1992 Fruit of
the Loom an
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Result come
on board. Ex
pansion
is rapid as P
enCarrie open
s an
18,000 sq ft
distribution ce
ntre.
regularly reporting on the company’s many
groundbreaking developments and landmark
achievements. It’s been quite a journey:
here, we provide a snapshot of some of the
memorable moments along the way.
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1993 PenCarrie
1993 PenCarrie celebrates its second birthday by
pioneering what it believes to be an industry first with
the publication of its first colour brochure at just
12-pages long.
1994 Paul Persey predicts future investment in “bigger and
bigger buildings, better and better systems, more and more
product ranges and an ever increasing inventory.”
1996 PenC
arrie reache
s its fifth
anniversary
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1995 John Mallett joins
PenCarrie
as a member of the com
pany’s
warehouse team; today
he is
the company’s highly exp
erienced
warehouse manager.
1999 New
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