Summer Hats

June 12th, 2013

A & K hosiery are pleased to announce their superlative collection of wholesale summer hats, just in time for the British summer holiday season. Wholesale customers can choose from an eclectic range of summer hats, from the classic beach sun hat to a more street wise, city style trilby. For school, beach and bank holidays there are hats to fit every need and occasion, whether for male or female, young, old or in between.

There is no better time than now to start setting out your summer eBay stall to provide cost effective choices for the discerning summer bargain hunter.

One of the bestselling product ranges at present is our wide spectrum of cheap wholesale ladies sun hats, on offer at just £1.50, making this line an excellent winner on value and strong profit margins. Our collection includes a variety of designs and colours which all come in packs of twenty. The high quality of the material and the relative low cost make this a perfect product for targeting online eBay customers looking to do fuss free holiday shopping.

As a leading UK specialist in the wholesale supply of sun hats, our full stock of hats represents class and style; they all have a unique blend of inherent design and quality material at some of the lowest wholesale prices in the UK.

As any eBay seller will testify, the marketplace is extremely competitive and you need to have both diversity and efficiency to stand out from your competitors.

We offer customers a fast turnaround delivery service and aim to get most products dispatched within 24 hours.  As one of the best upmarket wholesalers of hats, A & K hosiery also offers a choice of material including:

• cotton
• straw
•  waterproof

Our range of patterns and styles are second to none; we have a huge stock range, with a hat to suit every occasion: from trilby, wide brim to floral, surfer, beret and bush.

Men can also benefit from our popular range of headgear which includes terrific snapback baseball caps, flat caps and bandanas. For children there is a tantalising display of cute baseball caps, crushable straw hats, cowboy hats, shower proof hats and lots more. The entire range is available at our usual low wholesale prices, ensuring a healthy retail margin.

At A & K Hosiery our customers come first; we know that offering your customers the best deal with the fastest service can often mean the difference between a competitor making the sale – or you. Order from our popular range of wholesale hats and see the difference in your return of investment.

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Summer Bedding Trends

May 24th, 2013

If there is one thing you can be certain about when it comes to the British summer, it’s that the weather will be uncertain. With this in mind it makes sense for retailers to be prepared for all eventualities and to stock a range of bedding for both the warm and cold nights. A & K provide a fantastic collection of wholesale bedding.

The great thing about this season’s wholesale stock is there is a great variety of bedding which will appeal to both those shopping for themselves, and those who are considering purchasing a gift for someone else.

Mini Faux fur throw

The mink faux fur throws are definitely worth considering as they have a range of uses. Whilst essentially a bedding accessory, they are often used as throws for a couch or settee and can even be packed up tightly and taken out when going for a picnic or visiting the beach. 

More and more often throws are being used to highlight the colours on a bed or sofa and to add a touch of sophistication to a room. Often a throw is the final touch on a room and as such it makes sense to have a range to suit all tastes. With this in mind, it makes sense for web shop owners to stock up on these popular items even in the warmer months.

Wholesale duvet sets

The trend for 2013 is all about the colours and retailers won’t be disappointed with the vibrant selection of duvet sets we have on offer. From bright red polka dots to plain berry and fuchsia, there is a range to suit all tastes, enabling you to offer something for every customer.

The Union Jack duvet sets are another excellent addition to our range. With the success of team GB in the Olympics and last year’s royal wedding, never before has the nation been so patriotic. Add to this the excellent price point offered, and online retailers can rest safe in the knowledge that profits are maximised.

Children’s duvet sets

Our range of children’s duvets are not to be missed either. A selection that includes both the traditional options that prove popular year on year, such as Fireman Sam and Bob the Builder as well as the current popular ones such as The Amazing Spiderman and Hello Kitty means you will have something that appeals to young and older children alike.

Bed in a Bag

Our bed in a bag options are not only in line with the latest trends, they are sure to be a huge hit with those looking for that little something for themselves or a present for a friend or family member. The range of colours will suit a variety of consumers from those who like to make an impact, to those who prefer a more subtle style.

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Summer Season Stock

April 29th, 2013

Despite the cold weather we’ve been experiencing in the UK, the warmer weather will eventually appear at some point and as such, it’s time for retailers to begin turning their attention to the new season’s stock.

Accessories always go down well, whatever the time of year, and we have some brand new ranges which are ideal for boosting spring and summer margins, whether you’re a market trader, shop or web store.

Belts

The new range of wholesale belts that have just come into stock are made from soft, yet hardwearing, high-quality leather in fashionable, yet practical styles. The belts all feature pin buckle fastenings, and single keeper and are available in packs of various sizes from small right up to XXL.

These belts are an ideal addition to existing ranges and are ideally priced to offer you the chance to sell at a competitive price without compromising on quality.

Ladies summer fashion scarves

We have a range of summer scarves in stock, in various styles to suit every taste. A range that’s proving especially popular this year is the floral design range, which can be worn around the neck or as a hairband.

In a classic, vintage flower-print design, the scarves come at a low wholesale price so that you can remain competitive whilst improving profits.

Jennifer Anderton socks

Proving hugely popular for the upcoming season is the Jennifer Anderton socks range. For ladies and children, these high quality socks are manufactured from natural cotton in order to give extra softness. Elastane and a honeycombed top also ensures that these are a comfortable fit with good grip.

Made by leading sock manufacturer Drew Brady, these socks will make a great addition to your range and come in a well-packaged pack of three, with a hook for display hanging.

The argyle socks come in assorted colours, sizes 4-8 and are available at wholesale prices with a minimum purchase of one dozen.

All of our wholesale accessories are specially picked in order to offer retailers good, quality products which won’t eat away at profits. Competitively priced, the accessories range is ideal for all types of retail, online or off.

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Wholesale Flip Flops Collection

April 25th, 2013

Wholesale Stock with Summer in Mind

Well, summer is finally showing signs of being on the way in the UK and for many people, that means that thoughts will be turning to this year’s holidays.

With that in mind, we’ve got a cracking new range of wholesale flip flops for our wholesale customers, in all of the most popular sizes, generally sold in boxes of 24. These come in a variety of styles, which we’ll go into in more detail a little later, and are manufactured to a very high standard.

A great addition to your shop or web store

Made from soft, yet incredibly hard-wearing rubber, our new range of flip flops are available for men, women and children and are long-lasting and comfortable. Whilst maintaining high-quality, these are offered at an excellent price point, designed to help you maximise your profits.

Ideal for eBay and Amazon shops, these are the perfect complement to your summer clothing & wholesale footwear range and start at prices as low as 85p per pair when you buy a minimum of 20, these can be offered at very competitive rates to really boost your summer margins.

The sun is always shining when you’re wearing flip flops

Our new wholesale flip flop range has something for every customer, whether the customer prefers a conservative style, or a bang up-to-date, stylish or funky look.

For the ladies, the range covers a variety of styles including:

• Colourful polka dots
• Floral prints
• Animal prints
• Jewels
• Fancy designs
• Shell print
• Peacock
• Daisy

All of these come in the most popular sizes and are bound to be a hot seller this season.

For the gents, the range is a little more subtle, whilst retaining quality and stylish designs. These come in the following styles:

• Surfer
• Stripes
• Multi-stripes
• Camo-stripes
• Dark Stripes

Some of the men’s designs have a fabric over-foot design for extra comfort.

For the little ones, colourful and bright is the order of the day and little girls will love the pink heart design, complete with hearts decorating both the insert of the shoe and the raised hearts on the over-foot part of the flip flop.

If these aren’t enough to turn a young girl’s head, then the floral design with bows on the top surely will.

Best-selling range

Our wholesale flip flops always go down well for the summer with both our wholesale customers and their retail customers in turn. So have a browse through our great selection of summer flip flops and be safe in the knowledge that our buyers only pick lines that we know will sell well in your shop or web store.

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Wholesale Tips & Advice

April 8th, 2013

Optimising Listings for Best Match on eBay

As every eBay retailer already knows, the world’s favourite auction site is an incredibly competitive marketplace. This means that it’s often necessary to employ a few tricks if you want to become a Power Seller on the platform, something that in itself carries numerous benefits.

So what’s the best route to take to increase sales, bearing this in mind? Achieving a high position in eBay’s Best Match search results is a very good start. However, if you’re starting from scratch, this is easier said than done, a lot of the time.

Tips for attaining a good listing

By optimising one or two listings, this can benefit the remainder of your listings significantly and help to achieve more sales. Bearing this in mind, it’s necessary first to look at how search results are sorted.

• Buy it Now and fixed price items are based on seller performance, sales and recent impressions in search
• Title, value and P&P all affect how your listings appear in search
• Top rated sellers gain better Best Match results

Given that 80% of buyers on eBay don’t alter search results by further defining once they are returned, it’s easy to see why ensuring your listing are optimised is important.

Seller performance

We all recognise the importance of feedback on eBay, as this measures the performance of the trader. In order to ensure that you gain the best feedback possible, product quality, customer service and timely dispatch are paramount.

Tips for improving performance include:

• Speed up dispatch times by streamlining your pick and pack methods
• Create a universal template for each product type so that you can create powerful, comprehensive listings which tell the customer exactly what they are buying
• Answer queries as quickly as possible, have a timeframe in place for staff to work to so that everything is clear
• Have a process in place to deal with complaints such as missing items and returns so that these can be dealt with speedily

Recent sales history

Rather than creating a listing for identical, individual products, group them together in one listing. This will improve the search position of that listing and if you then go on to restock the same listing, rather than creating a new one, this will let you build on the sales numbers for that particular item.

This can be achieved by using the ‘Good ‘Til Cancelled’ function, which means that the item will automatically be relisted every 30 days. This builds the sales history over the lifetime of the listing and allows for better search positioning.

Titles

Just like any other internet-based ecommerce, eBay listings perform better if they use keywords. Use BayEstimator to research keywords and use these to build effective titles.

However, don’t be tempted to use keywords that are competitive but not relevant to your product, as this is likely to affect search positioning in a negative manner. Have a good look around at your competitors to see what keywords they are using and common but effective abbreviations that are often used and will be picked up in search.

Free P&P

Offering free P&P will automatically boost your results in Best Match, so this is something to factor into pricing in the first instance. However, it’s important to remain good value when compared to others in your industry so bear this in mind.

If your margins are too tight to offer free P&P, then ensure that postage rates are reasonable, offer discounts for more than one item and offer more than one shipping option to gain better results.

To automate the process and save time across all of your internet sales points, such as Amazon and eBay, think about using software like SellerExpress to help with speeding up optimisation.

In order to gain a great reputation, become a Power Seller and succeed on eBay, it’s necessary to offer good quality products, great prices, superb customer service and complete transparency about the company and what it has to offer.

Get all of this right and you’re well on the way to becoming a successful online trader.

Products

Having the correct products is crucial to any business. At A & K Hosiery we have a fantastic range of products available to you. All items are priced competitively meaning you can offer low trade prices to your customers whilst still enjoying a healthy profit for yourself.

Be sure to check out our range of wholesale bags, wholesale hats and wholesale footwear. New products are added to our range every week meaning you can offer a fantastic a fresh selection!

A & K Hosiery’s wholesale tips & advice is free whether you buy from us or not! Hopefully you will find it informative and helpful.

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High Street Clothing Retailers Feel the Squeeze

March 29th, 2013

M&S is the latest high street retailer that’s struggling with the limping economy, with rumours circulating that retailer may be sold, due to the clothing arm of the business again seeing a drop last quarter.

According to a report from analysts at Nomura, who it’s said has a “strong record of forecasting developments at M&S”, the high street store experienced falling sales again in the Christmas and New Year period.

This has continued into 2013, with reports suggesting that “clothing sales were down year-on-year by a double-digit figure”.

The report from the FT highlights how the economy is affecting even the biggest names in clothing retail. Bearing this in mind, it’s a good time to be a web trader at a time when keeping overheads to a minimum may be the difference between survival and failure.

Women’s wear

Women’s clothing has been “particularly difficult” for M&S and they are hoping that the upcoming spring range will be their saviour. However, M&S, whilst good quality, has never been inexpensive, so it’s no real surprise that the clothing arm of the business is one of the first to suffer as consumers look to cheaper options.

For M&S, this means that if its clothing sales don’t pick up by the autumn, we will see potential buyers making more noise, especially since profits have been falling since last summer. The last six months has been the weakest for M&S since the 2008/2009 financial year.

“We are almost getting to a point now, where the worse trading gets, the louder the bid speculation will become,”Bethany Hocking, analyst at Investec Securities, told the FT.

What this means for web traders

Many are feeling the squeeze and so it’s important for traders to ensure that they are reaching the right audience. This may mean varying stock in order to measure good sellers.

In order to survive in an economic climate as tough as the one we’re experiencing at the moment, traders must be as competitive as possible. A & K Hosiery can offer you fantastic cheap wholesale products. Just arrived this week we have One Direction Messenger Bags. 

Also a new range of adult belts. Which are both stylish, and should give you an excellent profit. There’s so many wholesale products to choose from, and don’t forget our famous fast delivery; there really couldn’t be a better time to give your business a boost.

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Wholesale Bedding Collection

February 14th, 2013

A fantastic range of Wholesale Bedding available now.

Over the last year our buyers have being working hard to increase our selection of bedding. We now have many different lines available which are sure to be a great compliment to your range.

The most recent addition are our Fitted Bed Sheets and Pillow Cases. Coming in an array of colours which match up.

The fabric of the bed sheets retains it’s natural softness to give you that extra touch of luxury. Being cool & dry, the sheet draws moisture away from the skin to help balance body temperature.

Also don’t forget the lovely collection of bed throws we have in stock. Our bed throws are lovely quality with a super soft feel.

As always with A & K you are guaranteed the lowest trade prices on our Wholesale Bedding.

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Wholesale Hosiery

January 13th, 2013

Wholesale Hosiery from A&K Hosiery includes collections from Cindy, Joanna Gray, Vixen, Silky, Rjm and many more, you will find Tights stockings holdups suspenders and a super range of hosiery for men, all at the lowest trade prices. All our featured wholesale hosiery is in stock and ready for next day delivery throughout the UK.

So if your looking to either add Wholesale Hosiery products to your range, or increase your styles look no further than A&K Hosiery.

All orders over £600 are delivered FREE to UK Mainland addresses.

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Wholesale Nightwear

December 28th, 2012

Wholesale nightwear comes in all shapes and sizes. Here at A&K Hosiery our range of pyjamas and night dresses is sure to bring a good night’s sleep, no matter if you’re looking for traditional or more modern nightwear designs. Nightwear needs to be comfortable, practical and easy to wear, and many customers will want something stylish as well. That’s exactly what our range of wholesale nightwear offers; you can diversify your stock with lovely, quality nightdresses, pyjamas and dressing gowns that are real bedtime staples. You’ll be able to find exactly what you need in our range of men’s and ladies’ wholesale nightwear.

Our ladies’ wholesale nightwear includes both nightdresses and pyjamas in a range of pretty designs. You can give customers a choice of sleeveless and short sleeve nighties and night shirts, from short to longer lengths, as well as matching pyjama sets. All are made from lightweight fabric, detailed with anything from embroidery to polka dots and floral prints. With both modern and traditional designs on offer, you can find something to suit any customer. Our range also includes snug dressing gowns ideal for those early mornings or for even those leisurely pyjama days.

Our range of men’s wholesale pyjamas is packed full of practical and comfortable nightwear in both plain and striped colours. These are ideal for any season, the long sleeves giving a bit of extra coverage without being too hot – we’ve got cotton blend pyjamas for the summer, and in the winter customers will love our cosy gent’s wholesale dressing gowns.

Whether your customers are looking for something delicate and stylish or a bit more practical, A&K Hosiery will be able to help with your wholesale nightwear range.

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Wholesale Socks

December 28th, 2012

Looking to spruce up shop, market or webstore? Look no further than our great range of wholesale socks.

A & K Hosiery buy in bulk and pass on all the savings to you the retailer. We supply to shops, markets, web traders, discounters and many charities.

Our products are priced from £2.00 per dozen which is less than 18p per pair, right through to our top end range of country and hiking socks.

Socks are everday accessories and we can offer you what we feel are some of the best wholesale prices in the UK across our full range.

In stock currently we have the full range of Mens Thermal Socks, the fantastic Heat Holder Socks, Argyle Socks by Aler, Cotton Lycra mix by Kato, the Jennifer Anderton sock collection and the full range of David James, Man Basic and RJM.

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