BBC Radio 4’s Today programme invited Christopher Nieper onto the show this morning to talk to presenter John Humphrys about how the government can strike a better deal for UK business.
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The BBC Politics Show visited the David Nieper Academy and David Nieper fashion house this week, to report on how the business is investing in skills both through secondary education for students at the Academy and vocational skills within the sewing school.
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Christopher Nieper talks to Kate Hills, CEO of ‘Make it British’ about tackling the textile industry’s skills shortage.
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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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Sky News visited the David Nieper sewing rooms to talk to Managing Director Christopher and some of our staff about what they would like to see emerging from the Prime Minister’s Brexit talks and how much of a difference it really makes in daily life.
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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