8tones has been responsible for the manufacturing and branding of our corporate clothing since 2020. They have continued to provide us with excellent service and we love how they use township based businesses to provide high quality products and to build the township economy. From design to manufacturing, they deliver and always meet deadlines. Thank you 8tones for your excellent service and support of the informal creative sector.

It has been such a pleasure doing business with 8tones. We have had a variety of printing needs with big quantities and very quick turnarounds and regardless of what we have requested, 8tones always finds a way to do it. 8tones’s team are efficient communicative and go above and beyond to deliver high quality products on time. The Music In Africa Foundation has used the services of 8tones from supplying us with products for corporate gifting internationally to printing services (large and small scale). We appreciate that they have been able to service some really out of the box requests from us flawlessly.

8tones has been vital in the work of product development. We approached Lorraine & Bruno with a prototype/concept and they were able to help us turn our concept into a market-ready product within 6 months. The vast knowledge and expertise between Lorraine & Bruno make 8tones one of the best companies I didn’t know I needed. From consultation, to product development and go-to-market strategy, this dynamic duo is a must, for all businesses who are looking to become more than just a business, but a brand.

Building township businesses is difficult, especially in the textile industry. We faced many challenges in our CMT in Orange Farm, Gauteng. Even though we had a good relationship with a corporate buyer, we really struggled to consistently meet timelines and product quality standards required of us by our client. 8tones fundamentally changed our profitability by introducing an operating discipline that used standardised processes and routines to ensure that quality was kept to its target. It reduced our wastage from 30% on some lines and targets to less than 1%. With its background in education and training, 8tones was able to quickly identify which talent could take on more responsibility and which required more oversight. It also assisted our clients in their product design by iterating on initial designs so that they could meet the manufacturing capabilities of our township creatives. We believe that if 8Tones approach of introducing operating disciplines as well as skills and capability building is expanded, it can be a powerful force for good is establishing township based CMTs and growing our local textile manufacturing economy.