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Company History of Badgemaster, Newstead, Nottinghamshire

Established in 1992 by John and Vicky Bancroft (1), Badgemaster is the UK’s largest name badge manufacturer. As well as name badges, Badgemaster also designs, manufactures and supplies signs, key fobs, corporate jewellery, door and desk plates.

The company started trading with three employees from a small porta-cabin in Nottinghamshire, and now employees eighty-eight full time staff at a state of the art facility on Newstead Industrial Park, where the company moved to in 1993 (2). Newstead was once a mining village, and therefore suffered large scale unemployment since the closure of the mine. Badgemaster is now a key employer of the area and received Nottinghamshire County Council’s first “Back to Work” award for its training in 1996 (3).

Other key milestones on the companies’ timeline include being granted the Royal Warrant for supply of name badges to the royal households in 2006 (4).

Badgemaster was also awarded the ISO 9001 accreditation in 2010 for quality management issued by the British standards institute (5).

Badgemaster’s customers spread across various sectors including many blue-chip organisations in retail, leisure, travel, financial services, healthcare, office supplies, uniforms and corporate wear. The company supplies badges to millions of wearers, with 24,000 accounts and over 1,500 orders every day. Managing Director, John Bancroft, has been quoted as putting Badgemaster’s success down to its quality guarantee for every badge and promise to beat any competitor price (6).

References 1.	https://www.duedil.com/company/02730127/badgemaster-limited 2.	http://www.nationalcareassociation.org.uk/suppliernewsstory.asp?id=885 3.	FMCG News Magazine, August-September 2012 4.	Chad Newspaper February 2006, Nottingham Evening Post 17th February 2007 and Dispatch Newspaper February 2006 5.	http://www.businessandindustrytoday.co.uk/issues/248.pdf 6.	Professional Clothing Director-E Magazine, October-November 2012