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Why NZ Schools Prefer Local Sportswear Uniform Suppliers

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More New Zealand schools are choosing to work with local suppliers for their sportswear uniforms, and there are some pretty solid reasons why. If you're a school administrator or part of a uniform committee wondering whether to go local or offshore, here's what other schools have discovered. You Actually Get to Talk to Real People When something goes wrong with an overseas order - and it will - good luck getting anyone on the phone. Working with a local school uniform designer in NZ means you can actually have conversations with the people making your uniforms. Need to adjust sizing? Want to tweak the design? Running up against a tight deadline? You can sort these things out with a quick phone call or meeting. Try doing that with a supplier halfway around the world who operates in a completely different time zone. Quality Control You Can See and Touch Here's something schools learn the hard way - photos on a website don't tell you much about actual quality. When you wor...