The David Nieper Academy took the local community in Alfreton, Derbyshire on stroll down memory lane last weekend by inviting over 300 former pupils on a school tour and final assembly, before doors to the old building close for good.
Current students at the David Nieper Academy will be moving into their new £15 million state-of-the-art school building this month.
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Derbyshire Life features highlights of the David Nieper 55th Anniversary at Chatsworth
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Christopher Nieper, Managing Director of David Nieper talks to Huff Post UK about 16% rise in EU sales and 20% rise in UK sales post Brexit vote.
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Managing Director, Christopher Nieper gives his reaction to the Prime Minister’s Brexit Speech in an interview on BBC World Service and thanks her for a practical and pragmatic approach. 
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Managing Director, Christopher Nieper gives his reaction to the Prime Minister’s Brexit Speech in an interview on BBC Radio 4 and thanks her for a practical and pragmatic approach.
Managing Director, Christopher Nieper speaks to The Times, Financial Editor about British fashion sales growth in the eurozone and increasingly healthy orders from France, Germany and Holland.
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David Nieper has reported a solid year and record turnover in 2016 – the year that the family business celebrated its 55th anniversary.
Managing Director, Christopher Nieper commented:
“During 2016 our family business has had a record turnover and celebrated 55 years in business. This year it is our intention to build upon this success, capitalise on the auspicious global market conditions and seize the unprecedented opportunity being offered to UK manufacturers.”
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BBC East Midlands Today talks to Managing Director Christopher Nieper, Headteacher Dr Kathryn Hobbs and some of the senior students about the future of the new David Nieper Academy in Alfreton.
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Yarns have been spinning and spools have been whirring at the David Nieper fashion house in Derbyshire this week, as the knitwear team cast off their 100,000th garment.
Over 30 years Britain has lost 85% of its’ textile jobs to offshore production and when the last of David Nieper’s British suppliers closed in the wake of the last recession, David Nieper, determined to keep jobs in Britain opened their own facility. Confident in customer’s appetite for British made goods they purchased brand new machines, trained staff from scratch and opened one of the few genuinely new knitwear production units in Britain for a generation.
The family business established in 1961 has always been loyal to British skills and today their knitwear division accounts for up to 20% of their fashion garments, made in Cashmere and luxury merino wools.
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The David Nieper fashion house in Derbyshire has cast off its 100,000th garment, after establishing its knitwear division in 2010.
The current knitwear collection features over 70 different styles in sizes 10-28, all crafted by a team of 12 specialists, with a combined 150 years’ experience in knitwear production.
Luxury Lambswool, Merino and Cashmere sourced from sustainable stocks are the staple yarns of the knitwear collection, which are skilfully spun into a range contemporary designs and classic styles.
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