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Minolta Shirts / Hats - Were?

Started Jan 31, 2007 | Discussions thread
David Kilpatrick Veteran Member • Posts: 5,436
Re: Doesn't Kilpatrick... [m]

Schwany wrote:

sell this, ah um, stuff on his alternate ego site? Check is profile
or a post from him for a link that will eventually get you there. I
think he has bags, straps, hats and such.

The knife, that's an odd one. Must be for cutting film strips into
five or six frame sections.

Aeons ago we used to. For 20 years we sold Minolta logo gear - baseball caps, sweatshirts, pens, keyrings, mousemats, all sorts of stuff. Right now we are down to a few of the CF card wallets left, a handful of nice alloy CF/PCMCIA card cases (not put on eBay yet), loads of straps with the European Dynax name on them (of course) and a bit of trivia. Some bags, some backpacks, some lens/flash/digicam cases.

But no shirts!

Around 2000, the price of the Japanese branded goods became too high. Minolta UK discovered that Minolta Canada had really gone to town with a whole wardrobe of fleeces, hats, polo shirts - the lot. The Club had always sold these, but Min UK decided they would like to stock all these and do the fulfilment. So that's what we did for three years. When Con-Min took over, this stuff disappeared. They had no interest in the old Minolta logo, and no intention of pushing the new Konica Minolta logo except on goods like the bags and cases which were used to package kits for big retailers.

I do have the original Minolta and Konica Minolta artwork files for all logos, and I have a very good sportwear branding specialist 200 yards away (ProMotif, they do all the Scottish rugger shirts). But this is not cheap logo-wear it's functional sportswear for real teams, or else it is up in the Pringle knitwear bracket with embroidered logos. So I have never felt able to invest in stock.

David

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