With the help of a specialist team, Kevin Jarvis has set up a consultancy to help businesses to implement and make the most of DecoNetwork, which provides an online design, e-commerce, and business management software platform for garment printing and embroidery.

Jarvis has over 30 years’ experience in creating and developing sportswear brands and more recently worked with Leicestershire-based Workwear Direct to build its business using DecoNetwork.

As the first DecoPro, he will offer a free consultation by video or phone of about 30 to 40 minutes to understand a client’s business and what it needs from the DecoNetwork platform.

He will then find ways to help set DecoNetwork up to best suit each business with minimum disruption.

Jarvis said his principal objective as a DecoPro consultant was to assist businesses in “implementing and harnessing the full power of DecoNetwork” and to “quickly see a return on investment”.

Jarvis created women’s sportswear brand USA Pro, which reached a turnover of £12m at retail before being acquired by Sports Direct in 2007. He later negotiated the European licence for Elle Sport, which reached £6m in sales before being bought by a venture capital company in 2017.

After discovering DecoNetwork he used the platform to develop a value-added B2B model, which he subsequently proved through the project with Workwear Direct.

“The results are outstanding with Workwear Direct winning significant contracts with national businesses in the first two months of trading, purely on the ‘added value’ power of DecoNetwork,” said Jarvis.

DecoNetwork already has DecoPro partners in the US, including Michigan-based Tommy Vann. Earlier this year, the business partnered with The Magic Touch to offer a selection of garment transfer templates and process guidelines for the new direct-to-film (DTF) transfer process.