Last updated on April 13th, 2015 at 01:45 pm

A very good friend runs her own craft shop in Llanrwst, North Wales, and recently was complaining about the fact that the sun fades the packaging on the stock that is displayed in the window and that she was having to swap the items around on a very frequent basis.  Talking to other shops in the area, certainly the ones in the town square others were having the same problem.

Looking at other shops in the area she discounted the idea of a plastic blind that dropped down within the window and the idea of a awning to block out some of the sun wouldn’t have worked as her shop is on a narrow pavement on a sharp corner with large lorries going past on a very frequent basis (the road is a major trunk road here in North Wales).

I offered to look at the different options and remembered a company called MDP Supplies who are a wholesale distributor of sign vinyl and supplies for sign makers & garment printers with several depots across the UK. Continue reading →