The Factory on the BBC News & in The Metro

Day 1 of London Fashion Week (14/02/14) and our sister company Fashion Enter and its highly successful North London Factory and Stitching Academy gained coverage from the BBC News and The Metro newspaper.

Highlighting the need for more skilled workers in the UK manufacturing sector TV journalist Fiona Bruce from BBC News interviewed the CEO of ASOS, Nick Robertson, at our North London Factory as well as Stitching Academy Level 1 qualifier Shana Tekila.

The growing need for skilled workers in the British manufacturing industry was also highlighted in an article ‘Are You Cut Out for Jobs in Fashion?’ by Cheryl Latham in the Metro (Friday 14^th February pages 14/15). In the article she talks to our CEO Jenny Holloway about the ASOS Stitching Academy and the return to manufacturing on British soil.

This article was also pinned-up on the press wall at London Fashion Week, please see below.