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May 2013. News release: "From Milan to Manchester LIVE! Arndale Market kicks back to put its fashion on the map!" 11 May 2013
January 2013. Manchester Evening News "Dozen north west firms line up for small business prize" 14 January 2013.
December 2012. Manchester Evening News "12 Finalists vie to succeed in local business accelerators scheme" 24 December 2012
December 2012. Canal-St.co.uk "Tooty Booty Raises £2k for GHT" 7 December 2012
December 2012. Lingerie Insight "Question Time Interview with Ashley Grumble, MD Pants UK Limited" 6 December 2012
November 2012. Lingerie Insight "Store Envy" November 2012
October 2012. Canal-St.co.uk "Pants relocates" 5 October 2012
October 2012. Lingerie Insight "Pants launches new flagship store in Manchester" 4 October 2012
October 2012. Lingerie Buyer "Pants opens new store" 3 October 2012
October 2012. BriefsMania.com "The New Home for Pants" 2 October 2012
October 2012. UK Gay News "Same 'old' Pants..." 2 October 2012
August 2012. Manchester Confidential "Pants Moves to Manchester Arndale" 22 August 2012
June 2012. Lingerie Buyer "Pants wins business award" 15 June 2012
June 2012. Out-Spoken Magazine "Pants: Sagging" 5 June 2012
June 2012. Out-Spoken Magazine "UndieNation explodes onto the club scene as LGBT retailer moves into new territory" 7 June 2012
June 2012. Afflecks "UndieNation in conjunction with Pants" 6 June 2012
June 2012. Tameside Citizen "Pride of Tameside Business Awards" 2 June 2012
May 2012. Tameside Advertiser "Underwear firm comes out on top" 31 May 2012
May 2012. Tameside Advertiser "Top talents take the accolades" 31 May 2012
May 2012. Tameside Citizen "Tameside Firms are the Business" 31 May 2012
May 2012. Tameside Business Family "Pride of Tameside Business Awards 2012 Winners" 28 May 2012
May 2012. Canal-St.co.uk "UndieNation Underwear themed dance event" 15 May 2012
May 2012. Tameside Advertiser "Pride of Town" 10 May 2012
April 2012. Lingerie Buyer "Pants reports 52% growth" 18 April 2012
March 2012. Hot Village "Pants 'Dare to Bare' Project 2012" 5 March 2012
March 2012. Bent Magazine kick starts our Everyday Guys Project 2012 recruitment 2 March 2012
February 2012. Tameside Advertiser "Brief history...but underpants firm grows fast" 9 February 2012
January 2012. Outspoken Magazine "Growth in our Pants" 31 January 2012
January 2012. Clothes For Him "Underwear retailer Pants acquires Sterling Clothing" 19 January 2012
January 2012. ManchesterIt.com "Underwear retailer Pants acquires Sterling Clothing" 19 January 2012
January 2012. Manchester Evening News "Underwear retailer Pants acquires Sterling Clothing" 19 January 2012
January 2012. Canal-St.co.uk "Expanding Pants" 18 January 2012
January 2012. Lingerie Buyer "Pants acquires Sterling Clothing" 18 January 2012
December 2011. GayUKNews.com "Best Butt Award Event Raises over £4000", 24 December 2011
December 2011. GayUKNews.com "Pants make finals of Dragon's Den style Awards" 14 December 2011
December 2011. Lingerie Buyer "Pants - finalists in Local Business Accelerators" December 2011
December 2011. Tameside Advertiser "Pants-tastic Firm makes our Accelerator Shortlist" 14 December 2011
December 2011. Manchester Evening News "Finalists in Local Business Accelerators contest revealed" 7 December 2011
November 2011. Tameside Advertiser "Designer briefs are anything but pants" 3 November 2011.
October 2011. Designermensunderwear.co.uk article "a FRESH approach to PANTS" 6 October 2011.
October 2011. Gayuknews.com "Pants break the mould!" 3 October 2011.
October 2011. GayLeeds.com article "Pants: Proud to be different!" 1 October 2011.
September 2011. Montage of images from our Sinful Underwear Fashion Show, August 2011, are featured in Hot Village. 26 September 2011.
September 2011. Resepected mens underwear blog www.undiefan.com shout about Pants' September promotion
September 2011. reFresh Magazine "It's all about Pants" 22 September 2011.
August 2011. Following professional rebrand, launch of new website, store refit, improved back end infrastructure and customer service channels and tweaks to our brand base, Pants relaunches at Manchester Pride 2011 delivering its Sinful underwear fashion show in partnership with AXM Group & Red Ice Promotions.
August 2011. Pants collaborates with Manchester's Lesbian & Gay Foundation to share images from its Every Day Guys campaign. The LGF use Pants images for their "Wear It, Lube It, Fill It", safer sex campaign. August 2011.
July 2011. Pants Every Day Guys project images feature on the front cover of Out North West issue 104.
June 2011. Ashley Grumble is seeing steady growth in his underpants. His business selling them, that is.
Manchester Confidential, June 14 2011.
March 2011. We want you in our Pants! Afflecks blog article. 28 March 2011.
March 2011. Press release issued for Everyday Guys Project - model recruitment, 20 April 2011.
November 2010. Pants featured in Attitude magazine newsletter, November 2010.
October 2010. Announcing that Pants is open. Press release October 2010. 6 October 2010.
August 2010. Everything you need for Manchester Pride can be found at Afflecks. 14 August 2010.
May 2010. Pants now open! Afflecks announces its new arrival on it's blog pages. 1 May 2010.
