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Family Business United – Christopher Nieper Speaks at The Great British Family Business Event

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Christopher Nieper, managing director of David Nieper recently spoke that The Great British Family Business event in London, 19 March 2015.

With family businesses, like David Nieper, getting more and more recognition for the contribution they make to the British economy and beyond, Christopher Nieper joined other family business leaders to celebrate family business.

Building on the success of the inaugural event in 2014, Christopher Nieper alongside speakers, including Adrian Maxwell from Fracino and Charlie Mullins from Pimlico Plumbers provided their insights and inspiration to the family business community.

For more information, visit Family Business United and The Great British Family Business.

If you are interested in booking Christopher Nieper as a speaker, visit https://press.davidnieper.co.uk/

Christopher Nieper and Paul Pritchard interviewed about the UK textiles industry

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As the textiles industry sees an upsurge from reshoring, MD Christopher Nieper and non-executive director Paul Pritchard talk about David Nieper’s initiative to train the next generation and provide a springboard for the regeneration of the Made in Britain textile industry in an interview on BBC East Midlands Today.

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David Nieper Featured in The Ethical Hedonist

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occasions-2Journalist and fashion editor Alison Jane Reid featured David Nieper’s Autumn/Winter 2014 collections on her excellent blog The Ethical Hedonist, talking about the revival of luxury dressing and highlighting her favourites from our Made in Britain fashions.

“There is a new mood sweeping through the world of luxury and heritage that would delight the wasp wit of the Dowager Countess of Grantham. As everyday life speeds up, luxury is defiantly heading in precisely the opposite direction. Today, luxury is all about the art of the artisan and savouring the art of ‘slow living’.  It started with the slow food movement, and a re-discovery and appreciation for exquisite artisan products made with love and fascinating regional traditions, and now the most discerning fashion lover wants her fashion to be slow and fabulously authentic too.

Made in Britain fashion is firmly back in the fashion spotlight and the epi-centre of the revolution isn’t in London – it’s in Derbyshire at a remarkable family run company celebrated for its timeless, alluring, beautifully crafted fashion masterpieces  – created with extraordinary passion, pride and love by a rather dashing visionary –

David Nieper and his son and heir apparent, Christopher.”

Read the full article on Ethical Hedonist here: Dazzle Like a Downton Duchess in David Nieper

Christopher Nieper Speaks at ASBCI Event Make it Fashion

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Christopher Nieper, managing director of David Nieper recently spoke at the Association of Suppliers to the British Clothing Industry (ASBCI) event Make it Fashion held on Wednesday 5th November 2014 at Nottingham Trent University.

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His speech The Magic Ingredients – British Designed, British Made was of great interest to the students attending with Christopher speaking alongside Maria Grachvogel, Kate Hills from Make it British, Maggie Stott of Warehouse, Wendy Coley from Fashion Enter and Maxwell Logan of Agent Provocateur.

For more information about the event, visit: Outstanding fashion designer and industry names to address students at ASBCI conference Make it Fashion.
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UK companies adapting working practises for an older workforce

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British companies are being forced to adapt their working practices in response to the rapid ageing of the country’s workforce. In an October 16th 2014 article in the Financial Times, Christopher Nieper, managing director of the upmarket women’s fashion group David Nieper, is quoted: “You cannot create skills overnight. You may think that as people age, energy levels wane. But this is more than compensated by experience and the fact they get it right first time.”

Read the full article in the Financial Times here (Registration required)

Fashion Students Compete for £1,000 Scholarship Prize

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Fashion and textiles students at the University of Derby are ready to battle it out for a £1,000 prize thanks to a new partnership with luxury fashion designer and manufacturer David Nieper.

The Alfreton-based fashion house, which specialises in collections of women’s clothing, nightwear and knitwear, has teamed up with the University to offer students a challenge as part of a scholarship.

The aim of the fashion design scholarship is to provide students with real-life industry experience to help them secure employment once they graduate, and showcase the benefits of designing and manufacturing in the UK.

Students have to design a four-outfit collection for the company that could be sold as a limited edition collection aimed at the working woman, aged 40 and over, for a business trip abroad.

Derbyshire fashion house David Nieper recruits new employees

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Alfreton-based David Nieper is on the lookout for dressmakers, pattern cutters, knitwear linkers and other skilled people in an attempt to take on at least 40 fresh employees this year.

As part of the recruitment drive, David Nieper is urging people with experience in textiles, as well as those looking to break into the fashion manufacturing industry, to get in touch.

Read full article at the Derby Telegraph