The Dollywood Times

Article from the Newark Advertiser, courtesy of Barbara Ward.

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Mannakin Ltd has supplied mannequins for the new series of Trinny & Susannah Undress the Nation. Roz Mita, Director of Mannakin Ltd says, “It is great to see our mannequins on such a popular show. The mannequins are really getting about this year, attending celebrity dress auctions in London and featuring on an album cover, as well as appearing in the first and final episodes of Trinny & Susannah Undress the Nation. It is not all about shop windows!”

Mannakin offers a range of models for sale and hire, for parties, photo shoots and events as well as retail use. Unusually, the business also has a mannequin liquidation and recycling service, to help remedy the issue of mannequin dumping in landfill. With mannequins named after characters like John Barrowman’s Captain Jack or famous names including Mr Humphries, plus a ‘casualty’ range of reconstructed low cost dummies, Mannakin offers a personal and inspired service.

To find out about mannequin sales and hire, visit www.manakin.co.uk where the price displayed includes delivery, collection and VAT, or call 01636 610033 or 07757 513 584.

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Notes to Editors

1. For media enquiries, call Roz Mita on 07757 513584 or email press@mannakin.co.uk
2. About Mannakin: We hire, sell and restore mannequins for a wide variety of situations in TV, Fashion and Media. From a 70’s classic shop dummy, through such beauties created by the leading manufacturers in mannequins such as Rootstein & Hindsgaul; to the modern simplistic display bust; we have almost every kind of mannequin for you to hire or buy. We can repair damaged mannequins and arrange full customisation. We can deliver by overnight courier or in person. Well known clients include ITV and Woman and Home magazine. Mannakin has grown rapidly over the last year, moving from being a home based business to having a large warehouse where you can view the dummies and additional space for photo shoots.
3. Mannakin, Unit 1, Farrar Close, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2EQ, United Kingdom Tel: 01636 610033 | Mob: 07757 513584
4. Any use of the images below is strictly prohibited.
   

In Your Room, the highly anticipated Yazoo 4-disc box set is now available. The box set features remastered and 5.1 mixes of both Yazoo’s classic albums Upstairs At Eric’s and You And Me Both, b-sides and remixes. The package also contains a 64-page booklet.

Nicko, Mr Humphries and Dangerous Dave all feature on the front of the booklet. To say they are ecstatic with this new found stardom would be an understatement!

Mannakin client Joe Lyons, based in Hastings is the photographer.

Roz Mita added, ‘We were very excited to have worked with Joe on this project and even more delighted that 3 of our guys ended up on the front page of the booklet. A real achievement for Mannakin.’

The countdown has started and Mannakin is just days away from moving our 120 plus mannequin collection out of the house and into it’s own premises. Whilst this is a really exciting time for us, it is also quite nerve wracking!

I started Mannakin from the lounge of our 3 bed terraced council house and it was a tiny idea that I had last July. Having set myself up last year as a retail consultant, I wanted to get more involved in visual merchandising and in particular window displays. Working with my client Honeytrap Lingerie, I bought just one mannequin that went into her shop window as part of a competition. The effect was instant as this eternally young beauty, dressed in gorgeous, sexy lingerie, grabbed the attention of passers by. The postman would give a smile and men and women turned their heads. Great stuff, this is what in your face promotion is all about!

The power of the mannequins had definitely been identified and I then started to collect more and specialise in mannequin hire and repair. The collection grew and grew along with interested clients and by Christmas 2007 there were around 40 in the house.

The dining table is supposed to be here!

It was becoming difficult to find space to sit and watch TV, so by the new year I rented a shipping container from the Newark Storage Company. That little move made us as a family quite anxious as we now had an extra bit of expense. Fortunately though enough orders for hire came through, enabling us to cover the cost.

Before it got really crowded! At least then we were able to see the TV.

Whilst collecting many mannequins, I was also building up a pile of wigs. Some of these are unbelievably 70’s and so the craze in the house became putting the wigs on ourselves and daring eachother to go out in them. My husband Jona, a natural entertainer was more than happy to do the dare and went to the local Chinese take away wearing one! But by far the cutest member of the family, our little girl Summer has taken a real fancy to the wigs and actually cries to have one on. Once the wig is in place she likes to admire herself in the mirror! A proper little girl indeed.

The whole point of working from home was to spend more time with the family and be on call if anyone needed Mum. However, this started becoming more and more frustrating as time went on. Yes, home is a good place to start a venture and I like to think that all the best businesses are started from home, but it soon became apparant that I needed to increase the amount of mannequins that I had due to demand. Not only the number of but the selection of. In March 2008 my quest began for more storage combined with workspace so that I could actually ‘go to work.’ As you can imagine the business really was piling up ontop of us all, including the dog!

Photo by Liz Savage

However last week it all got a bit too much and so I went out and bought a party sized gazebo for the garden. I then managed to move quite a few out of the house and as you can see, they are still sat there waiting for their warehouse bus to arrive!

This extra work space has now been found. Nearly 2000 sq ft of it and we are evicting all the 120 plus dummies and everything related to Mannakin into the new warehouse. It will be the first time that we can actually have all the mannequins out to look at at once and so we invite you to our launch on 1 July. To get your invite make sure you subscribe to our newsletter via our home page.

I am of course, really excited now about the next stage of growth and look forward to it very much! There is a lot planned, so keep in touch! Roz x

For any press enquiries, please feel free to contact me direct, Roz Mita 07757513584.

Photographs may not be used without permission please.

We have often been asked by clients for old used mannequins that cost little to hire. These may be for birthday parties, or to go under an alien costume. So after having a good sort out, we have launched the almost humourus ‘casualty range’. These are dummies and bits of dummies that have been reconstructed to make a new model. Fresh out of our very own Dollby City and with enough WD40 pescriptions to see them into next year, we hope these mannequins will fill your needs.

Available to hire at just £45 + VAT each delivered and collected by overnight courier, (or £15 plus VAT each if you come and collect and return yourself) these beauties can be hired by the week to fulfill the most imaginative of themes and completion of creative projects. Mannequin hire includes a wig for the dummy that we will supply from our range of ‘Dallas Wigs’.

The first assignment for this group of five, named Doris, Mavis, Gladys, Flossie and Petunia is actually a popular TV programme. Details will follow just as soon as we are allowed to reveal more!

Hopefully these girls will be the answer for those creative projects on a budget. They don’t get any cheaper than this! Call Mannakin on 01636 610954 or 07757513584 for more information.

Doris

Gladys

Petunia

Mavis

Flossie