Sunday, July 8, 2012

Coex Is Upgrading!


Here at Coex, we take pride in being the go-to store for custom T-shirts. One of the best things about the store is that you can walk in, sit down, and watch us print out any custom shirt in 20 minutes or less. All we need from you is an awesome idea, and we can make it happen.

While we can print shirts so quickly and painlessly at our store in the Mall of New Hampshire at Manchester, our Nashua location in the Pheasant Lane Mall is a satellite store at this point. The only services Coex Nashua has been able to offer is graphic design, order placement, and order pickup...until now!

We will be having full printing service at the Pheasant Lane Mall within a few weeks. That means you can soon expect the same 20 minute wait time at either of our stores.

This is obviously a big deal for us, but that's not the only exciting news: Coex Manchester will be getting an awesome upgrade of its own. The store at the Mall of New Hampshire will soon be getting a new cotton printer, an embroidery machine, and a label/sticker cutter.

This is the start of a new phase in Coex history. We're now equipped to completely outfit you from head to toe. Custom hats? Check. Your own line of stickers? Check. An order of 500 individualized front-and-back T shirts? Check. Coex is keeping pace with our customers as they get more creative -- it's exciting to see what our customers can imagine and to turn that imagination into an actual product.

Coex is growing, and it's growing fast. Check us out online or at either of our stores by the end of the month to take advantage of our newest and coolest machines!

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Aren't you bored with wearing the same shirts?

So, we've been doing this t-shirt thing for a long time now. What is it, like three or four years or something? Yet, people walk through the mall and are still amazed by what we can do. We love that. And, because of that, we've launched some really new exciting ways for you to be interactive with your COEX apparel.

Have you seen our new website? Check it out here. We upload many new designs every week, all of which you can edit to make your own. You can also start from scratch with the Design Studio. Select the color and type of shirt you want; click whether you want text, ClipArt, or pictures; put it all together, make a payment with our safe online system, and we'll take care of the rest. We can ship it to your door, or you can pick it up at one of our locations.

BTW...because we know you can't get enough of us, you'll want to LIKE our Facebook page. We not only have some of the best status updates that you'll find on FB, but we post all of our special deals on there, too. Sometimes you'll catch a survey. And, sometimes it will be something simple - like a picture of a war hero who purchased a custom shirt from us, or one of our younger customers posing with the Black Eyed Peas (Don't believe us? See below).

We also Tweet like crazy. Follow us here.

Got questions, send us an email! We'd be glad to help.

Wow, we just made getting in touch with us really easy - now, you've got no excuses! Make a shirt today! =]

~ Tyler

P.S. - We told you B.E.P. liked our shirts...

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Its been a good couple of years.

We have grown so much over the past 3 years, let us share our journey with you. Starting this company has been such a rewarding experience, we have been in 4 major malls, have three locations at Gillette Stadium for all the games, and have two successful internet sites. So lets back us a bit and answer the following questions for you. How did we start? What makes us different? Why do you move so much? Read on.

How did we start? We wanted to offer shirts that were designed by graphic artists from across the country. It started in late 2009 with the idea of making unique shirts for the public and we set up our first store at The Pheasant Lane Mall. However we quickly found out that the public liked the shirts but they didn't sell enough to support a store at the mall. One day a customer asked us to make a "custom shirt" that he has wanted for some time, so we added the service of making custom shirts. Over the next few months we became known as Coex "custom shirts" and started selling what the people wanted (anything they could imagine).

So what makes us different? I know your thinking that there are companies that make custom shirts out there, so what makes us special. There are a couple of things that we do differently, from the equipment we use to how we design with our customers. You can walk into one of our stores and have one of our designers turn your idea into a graphic and then make your garment while you wait. To top it off you are getting a production quality shirt, its not a press on, its not a screen print, it is a new technology that dyes your graphic right into the shirt! More recently we have made it even easier to make shirts with us. In January 2012 we introduced www.coexcustomshirts.com which allows our customers to design from the comfort of there house. They can then pick up the shirts at one of our stores or have it delivered, awesome!

Why do you move so much? Since 2009 we have moved a total of 6 times. We have been at The Pheasant Lane Mall, The Mall at Rockingham Park, The Burlington Mall, and The Mall of NH. Currently we have two retail locations, one at the Mall of NH (where we print) and another at The Pheasant Lane Mall (two day turn around). We move because we have to, the tough part about being in a mall is the high price of the rents. With that said we move around to get the biggest bang for our buck, new malls = exposure to new customers. We always joke that we should make a Coex Custom Shirts tour shirt with all of our locations on the back for our loyal customers.







Monday, January 23, 2012

2011-2012 Patriots Selling Season

It is always fun to be down at the games selling our shirts to the hundreds of thousands of fans that we see. We distribute out of the three tents that are in all the major locations of the stadium parking lots. Our main location which is located directly across from the stadium was shared with Monster Energy drinks. It was pretty cool to be next to a major company like that especially because they gave out free drinks!

That location was covered for the majority of the season by our one and only Donna (she was a rockstar down there). You know that she is loved when you see fans hugging her and recognizing her as the lady from the stadium when they walk into one of our stores. The other two locations were covered by Scott, Gianna, Henry, Kaylyn, Nick, Eric, and or myself.

This year we sold our Sons of Belichick, City of Champions, Gronk "I Pick Things Up and Put Them Down",  New Englands Finest, and a mix of our other popular designs. It was cool to here people say how much they loved our designs and it was even better on the games when we would completly sell out. So if you want a kick a$$ original shirt made by the fans for the fans than you need to check out "New Englands Shirt Shop" Coex Custom Shirts!

Friday, December 30, 2011

Introducing Coex's Online Design Studio

We are proud to introduce our new online Design Studio that we just launched this December.

Knowing that we needed an online design solution we looked for a good six months to find the perfect one. After a long search and many of trials later we had found our program. It was much better than the rest of the solutions we tried out. Even with its ease of use, the tutorial videos for our customers is a nice resource to learn how to upload your images.

Design Studio Abilities:

- Real-time graphic editing
- A large collection of Design Templates
- Design on the Product of your choice
- Add different Clipart to your design
- Upload your own images and graphics

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Coex Custom Shirts at The Burlington Mall

Being a newer company we try to get exposed to as many customers as we can. That is why we have been in the Pheasant Lane Mall, The Mall at Rockingham Park, Gillette Stadium, and now The Burlington Mall. The Burlington Mall for those of you who have not been, has a more upscale feel and a larger customer base than the other malls that we have been at. There is The Rainforest Cafe, The Cheescake Factory, Nordstrom, Lord and Taylor, and now Coex Custom Shirts. Not only are we at a premium mall for the holiday season but we also occupy one of their largest stores!

Now, it has been a bit tricky to fill up this monster of a store with stock but it is looking great. We now have enough room to split up the mens and womans sections. We also started to stock womans polos, more premium shirt colors, more tie dye options, and more sizes across all of our apparel. So if you want to see us for the holidays this year you better make it fast. Last year we had a five hour wait for printing and I am sure this year will be no different.

Monday, September 19, 2011

At Gillette Stadium: Country Fest

It was a "New England" weather extravaganza at the Country Fest this year. Rain, wind, and a hurricane warning all while we are selling shirts at the stadium. It was a good time though, great music and some pretty cool fans were enough to get our minds off of the weather and focus on selling shirts. For the concert we introduced a new disign for ladies that was a big hit, "I Love Country Boys". We also had our popular "Guns Don't Kill People Dads With Pretty Daughters Do" and a guys country design (not a good seller). The guns shirt was our best seller for the weekend.

I know what your thinking..... Selling shirts during a huricane...good thinking! But it really wasn't as bad as we thought, we did shut down two of our three locations for the last show.

Rain, wind, more rain, more wind, and then a break in the weather for about 30 min and I knew I needed to take some pictures of our tent. Keep in mind that this is during the "Hurricane" so I think that we look awesome!