August 2009  New colours introduced - cotton bags and aprons

Now you can buy cotton bags in nine different colours (including natural) and aprons in six colours (including white) from our online shop. Click on the links above or go to the 'Shop Online' tab at the top of this page

June 2009  Clever Glastonbury bags

Clever Baggers' bags are another big hit with those people lucky enough to go to the glastonbury festival. Follow the link to see where one bag ended up!

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/a-well-travelled-bag?c=Green

OK, if you can't be bothered to click the link, it went to Peru which by our reckoning is approx. 6,000 miles as the crow barks. If you can beat this, and prove it with a photo, please let us know and we'll send you a free 2009 Galstonbury bag. Email sales@thecleverbaggers.co.uk

Easter 2009  New web site up and running

Well you can see the results! Any (polite) sugestions as to how we can further improve your browsing experience would be welcome. Please let Will (will@thecleverbaggers.co.uk) know of any glaring mistakes

March 2009  New web site soon to be launched

We now have three sites: this one, our online Bag Boutique, and our online Wholesale shop . Understandably it can be a little confusing for all you lovely customers so we've listened to your comments (both good and bad!) and we are working hard to seamlessly integrate all three. Will, IT Manager and online wizard, is currently in a dark cellar chained to a pc and we've told him he can't come out until it's finished. 'What about your ethical trading policy?' we hear you ask. Well we do feed him occasionally, you know, bits of old computers, cables in a tasty pesto sauce, that kind of thing. And he does get paid.. He says 'it'll be ready when it's ready' but we think he might want to come out of the cellar by Easter so fingers crossed!

March 2009  Introducing 'Fifi'

Meet the gorgeous Fifi! We decided that the website lacked 'the human touch' so we're in the process of re-vamping the sites (see above) and letting Fifi show off some of the products so you can see what they look like being handled by a real person!

October 2008  Clever Baggers Online Wholesale Shop Opens

Due to increasing demand for large quantities of plain bags, we've now opened our new online wholesale store. Unlike the Clever Baggers Bag Boutique where we sell smaller quantities from single items upwards, the Wholesale Shop specifically caters for full carton quantities to pallet loads (full pallet loads contain 24 cartons). Visit the new site here

10 June 2008  Clever Baggers gets Oeko-Tex 100 Certification

It's official! Our natural cotton and canvas bags now have the full UK seal of approval provided by Shirley Technologies Ltd. The certification confirms that our bags are entirely free from any harmful chemicals or additives, but most specially that there is no discernable trace of pesticides. More details, including a downloadable pdf copy of the certificate, can be accessed from our 'Environmental Information' page

06 June 2008  The Clever Baggers go to Glastonbury - again!

Don't listen to all the reports about poor ticket sales, doom, gloom, rain and mud! This year's line-up musically is the best ever, even if you don't like rap. It's worth going to if only to get this year's limited edition cotton bag, supplied, naturally, by The Clever Baggers

20 June 2007  The Clever Baggers go to Glastonbury 

'Bag for Life' cotton carrier bags promoted by Glastonbury Festival organisers

The Glastonbury Festival is one of the most prestigious open air music festivals in the world, attracting a maximum capacity crowd of more than 170,000 lovers of music and dance. This year the organisers, led by Emily Eavis and supported by Greenpeace, Oxfam, Water Aid, iCount and Yeo Valley Organic, decided to promote a bag for life instead of giving away plastic bags to ticket holders. In previous years one of the biggest problems with the aftermath clear-up was the large numbers of plastic bags left as rubbish on site.

A deal was struck with The Clever Baggers and consequently a total of 155,000 of our BAG2 cotton carriers are being given away to ticket holders at this years' festival which starts on Friday June 22. For more details of the festival, go to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk