Corporate Uniforms
Company Logo Shirts
A logo on one shirt is a decoration job; company logo shirts across a whole staff are a standards job, and that is how we run them. The artwork is digitised once, the thread shades and placement rules are recorded, and every shirt that follows — this year or in three years — is embroidered against those records.
Company logo shirts are the most-read branding a business owns: seen at arm’s length from clients, photographed at events, judged every day. The shirt has to carry the logo cleanly, and the logo has to read identically across sizes, fabrics and re-orders placed years apart. Both are solved with files and records before bulk starts — not with inspection afterwards.
Placement rules on a shirt
A logo that sits 20 mm below the shoulder seam on one shirt and floats on the next looks like the work of two suppliers. Placement is recorded in millimetres from fixed points — shoulder seam, centre front, collar seam — and checked with a template during production. Where staff wear a pinned badge, the embroidery position is set to clear it, so nobody has to choose between the badge and the logo.
One logo, several shirtings
The same design behaves differently on every cloth. On light poplin a dense fill pulls the fabric into the stitching and puckers; on oxford the basket weave softens fine detail; on piqué the texture swallows small text. We digitise once, then tune the file per fabric and sew a strike-off on each. You approve the logo as it will actually appear, shirt by shirt.
When embroidery is not the right technique
Embroidery is the default because it survives laundering and reads as a quality mark, but it cannot reproduce gradients, photographic detail or very small text. Where the artwork demands those, we move that application to DTF or screen print and keep embroidery for the garments where it works. The decision is made per garment at sampling, with the trade-offs shown on physical strike-offs rather than described in an email. The full comparison is on logo embroidery and printing.
Beyond shirts: the wider corporate range
Once the shirt standard is set, extending it is the easy part. The same retained file, thread shades and placement rules carry onto polos, knitwear and outerwear, so custom corporate uniforms grow out of the shirt programme rather than starting as a second project. Coverage per garment type is agreed at the same sampling round, not rediscovered later.
What to send us
The vector logo file with Pantone references, the shirt list — and any further garments the range will cover — plus brand-book rules on minimum size, clear space and colour variants. We come back with a stitch-out plan per fabric, thread shade matches for approval and a placement sheet covering every garment type in the programme.
| Confirm before sampling | Spec. summary |
|---|---|
| Logo file | Vector artwork (AI, EPS, PDF or SVG) with Pantone references; the embroidery file is digitised once and retained |
| Placement | Recorded in millimetres from fixed points on the shirt — shoulder seam and centre front — and checked with a template in production |
| Approval | A stitch-out on each actual shirting in the order, approved by you before any bulk decoration |
| Coverage | Shirts first, then blouses, polos, knit layers and outerwear all decorated from the same retained file |
| Thread match | Matched to the nearest thread shade; anything short of a close match is flagged before you approve |
§ 01Who This Is For
The buyers this programme fits
- Companies rolling out logo'd shirts under a new brand identity
- Head offices replacing shirts from several suppliers that no longer match
- Organisations whose logo has fine text, several colours or a strict brand book
- Businesses extending a shirt programme into a wider corporate uniform range
§ 02Options
What you can change
- Tone-on-tone embroidery for a quieter look on executive shirts
- Employee names or department text as a second line under the logo
- DTF or screen print where the artwork has gradients embroidery cannot reproduce
- Contrast collar or cuff details that carry brand colour into undecorated garments
- Woven main labels and care labels under your name on every garment
§ 03How It Runs
How this order runs
The stages your order passes through, in order.
01
Artwork review
We check the vector file for line weight, text height and colour count, and advise what embroidery can and cannot carry.
02
Stitch-outs per fabric
The logo is sewn out on every cloth in the order, because a density that works on oxford will pucker light poplin.
03
Placement standard
Position is recorded per garment type in millimetres and checked with a template during bulk production.
04
Bulk and re-orders
Every run decorates against the approved strike-offs and the retained file, so year two matches year one.
§ 04FAQ
Company Logo Shirts — questions buyers ask
Frequently asked4 Q
Our logo has small text under the emblem — will it embroider?
Text under roughly 5 mm high fills in when embroidered and becomes unreadable. We either simplify the text for embroidery or reproduce that element as a print, and show you both versions on the stitch-out before you decide.
Can one embroidery file be used on both shirts and the wider range?
One master file is digitised per logo, but density and underlay are adjusted per fabric. A file set for a heavy cloth will distort a light one, so we tune the master for each fabric rather than forcing one setting onto everything.
What if our brand colour sits between two thread shades?
Thread ranges are narrower than the Pantone book, so we match to the nearest available shade and send a physical stitch-out for approval under your own lighting. If the match is not close enough, tone-on-tone or a print technique is the honest alternative.
How is the logo kept consistent on re-orders placed years later?
The digitised file, approved strike-offs, thread shades and placement measurements are all retained. A re-order is decorated against those records, not against an old garment posted back to us.
§ 05Fabrics
Fabrics worth comparing
- PoplinA smooth, fine plain weave for corporate, hospitality and front-of-house shirts where a crisp, clean appearance matters most.
- OxfordA textured basket-weave shirting that is more forgiving, more casual and harder-wearing than poplin.
- PiquéThe textured knit behind most uniform polo shirts — breathable, forgiving of wear and a natural base for an embroidered logo.
§ 06Production
The services behind this programme
Corporate Uniforms
More programmes in this category
Every programme here is manufactured to the same sealed-sample standard as the main corporate uniforms range.
Request for quotation
Ready to discuss company logo shirts?
Send your logo, an existing garment or your brief with a rough headcount — we will come back with a manufacturing plan and quotation.
What to sendRFQ
- 01Logo file (AI / PDF / PNG)
- 02Styles and colours
- 03Quantity per style
- 04Size range or headcount
- 05Deadline and destination
Minimum order typically starts at 100 pcs per style; exact MOQ is quoted per project.