Wow haven't come across this article before . Warrant brands also owned the fashion label "crisp". Will dud around and see if anything comes up .
Financial troubles with low sales also evident in 2011 it seems
Boris Ristevski, managing director of Warrant Brands, who stocks womenswear labels Bella Bleu and Crisp, marks 2011 as his fifth showing at Sydney Fashion Exposed and says he was hard hit by the reduction in Queensland buyers and let down by this year’s event.
“It’s actually the worst one that we’ve been to because they haven’t promoted it right,” he says. “Customers that we spoke to never got the phone calls or brochures that were meant to be sent out and on top of that the Queensland market wasn’t here.
“We count the Queensland market as about 40 per cent of our business, and we’ve seen a big impact because of the floods. This year, on the Sunday we were down 80 per cent from orders that we would usually do on the Sunday. Monday was better, but we’re probably at least 30 per cent down overall
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