Managing Director, Christopher Nieper was interviewed by BBC News Live to discuss what support UK businesses needed to hear from government in the Prime Minister’s Speech in Florence.
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David Nieper is celebrating the second anniversary of the opening of its cutting factory in Alfreton. In 2015, the company invested £750,000 in the new facility to help increase production through investment in state-of-the-art new technology.
Today, after being operational for just two years, the team has already cut over 325,000 luxury fashion garments using fabrics stretching over 400 miles – the distance between Alfreton and Paris – one of the company’s biggest export markets!
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The David Nieper Academy in Derbyshire has released its first ever set of GCSE results.
Students excelled in English language and literature with a phenomenal 85% of the year group achieving a grade 4+ (A*-C). Students also performed well in the other core subjects including Maths with almost 60% achieving 4+ and Science with almost 70% of Yr.11 students achieving A*-C. The school also had fantastic results from GCSE catering students with 83% achieving A*-C in their results.
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Top fashion blogger ‘Well Fashioned‘ deems our Made in Britain swimdress both glamorous and comfortable, and a luxury purchase for headturning women.
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Top blogger Fighting Fifty has featured David Nieper’s Spring/Summer collection, focusing on designing luxury clothes specifically for the over 50 female with each garment made from first sketch to final stitch in Derbyshire.
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Managing Director Christopher Nieper talks to Drapers about how the next generation holds the keys to the future of manufacturing in Britain.
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David Nieper Academy Year 7 student Kian Pearson is about to start a year long training schedule in preparation for a Land’s End to John O’Groats cycle ride with his father to raise money for Dementia UK, in memory of his Grandad.
Kian and his party plan to set off in July 2018 on a journey estimated to take just over 2 weeks from one end of the British Isles to the other.
At age 12, Kian will be among the UK’s youngest people to embark on the famous cycle ride. David Nieper wishes Kian and his family the very best of luck with training this year.
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Speaking at the Make it British ‘Meet the Manufacturer’ event in London, Christopher Nieper, Managing Director of luxury clothing business David Nieper Ltd announced that the Derbyshire fashion house has become a national trailblazer for the government’s apprenticeship drive in fashion and textiles.
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Speaking at a recent Meet the Manufacturer event in London, Managing Director, Christopher Nieper announced that David Nieper has been selected by government to be a UK fashion industry apprenticeship trailblazer.
The family business will set the UK national skills standard across three specialist job roles including; sewing machinist, pattern cutter and garment technologist.
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On a recent visit to the David Nieper fashion house and the David Nieper Academy, Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP praised the endeavours of the David Nieper Education Trust and described the new Academy in Alfreton as an exemplar.
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