Coats Colour Express wins Texprocess innovation award

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Coats Colour Express – the revolutionary web-based service providing the apparel and footwear industry with the world’s fastest and most colour accurate sampling facility for industrial sewing thread – has won a sought-after Texprocess award for innovative and outstanding developments, technologies and methods in the processing of textiles and flexible materials.

Texprocess is the leading International trade fair for processing textile and flexible materials. This year18 companies applied with 30 products and services for the Texprocess Innovation Award 2013, but only seven innovations were awarded, one of which was Coats Colour Express. The award was presented to Joerg Jakobi, Coats Marketing Director Germany, at the ceremony which took place at the Congress Centre in Frankfurt on 10 June 2013. Coats Colour Express is an unrivalled service offering customers a tool to help them select a precisely matched colour sample thread for their needs. It is the only truly integrated thread sampling service that connects brands, retailers and manufacturers online with Coats sales teams, laboratories and production facilities. Frazer Smith, Chief Commercial Officer, Coats plc, said: “It is a great achievement for Coats Colour Express to win a Texprocess Innovation Award. I would like to congratulate everyone who has been involved in CCE not only for this terrific award but also for the positive impact it is having for our customers in terms of increasing speed to market, as well as for our own business and reputation for customer focused innovation.” Giles Watkins, Managing Director of Coats in Sri Lanka said: “Coats is especially proud of this service here in Sri Lanka as it was first piloted here with our valued key accounts in 2011, in response to their feedback on their need for speed and accuracy. It is another clear example of Customer led innovation at Coats.” Coats Colour Express now has around 20,000 order lines placed per month on its new sampling platform and close to 55% of these orders are entered directly by customers. To download a high resolution image for Coats Colour Express go to:www.coats.com/imagelibrary. To find out more about Coats Colour Express go to www.coatscolourexpress.com.