TS Designs Selects Clairemont Communications for Media Relations, Social Networking
— PR Campaign to Highlight TS Designs as Prime Example of Sustainable Business —

Raleigh, N.C. – March 11, 2010 – TS Designs, the Burlington-based custom t-shirt printing company and recognized leader of sustainable business in North Carolina, has hired Clairemont Communications to provide strategic communications services to include media relations and social networking.

TS Designs offers three different sustainable t-shirt lines including:
• TSD Carolinas, also known as Cotton of the Carolinas, a “dirt to shirt” product that is grown, made and sold in North Carolina.
• TSD Organic, made from certified organic cotton which means no pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or genetically engineered seeds are used when farming the cotton.
• TSD Recycled, made from 65% post consumer recycled soda bottles and 35% post manufacturing recycled cotton scraps.

“Clairemont Communications demonstrated a great passion for our business,” said Eric Henry, president, TS Designs. “We are confident that this passion combined with the Clairemont team’s solid experience and creativity will help us tell the TS Designs story to a broader audience, and ultimately increase sales.”

“Any company that is struggling with how to go green can learn from TS Designs,” said Dana Hughens, chief executive officer, Clairemont Communications. “From the very products they sell to greening their headquarters to include a community garden, biodiesel co-op, sun tunnel lighting and other energy saving measures, TS Designs is making sincere sustainable strides, and is exactly the kind of company that we want as a Clairemont client.”

TS Designs joins Clairemont’s client roster of distinguished brands that includes Thomasville Furniture, Drexel Heritage and Briar Chapel by Newland Communities.

Clairemont Communications devises communications strategies that utilize both traditional and emerging forms of communications to help clients achieve business objectives and improve the bottom line by influencing purchases, persuading stakeholders and influencers, and defining brands. It is Clairemont’s relentless mission to deliver quality service and to foster the advancement of the public relations industry.

Clairemont Communications was born out of a moment of clarity that revealed an undeniable desire to do not just great, not just outstanding, but monumental client work. Clarity in vision + the promise of monumental results = Clairemont Communications.