{"id":2763,"date":"2018-07-08T15:26:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T14:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:31:52","slug":"legends-help-open-our-huge-new-operations-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/2018\/07\/legends-help-open-our-huge-new-operations-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends Help Open Our Huge New Operations Centre!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/A1-copy-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2766 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/A1-copy-2-1024x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/A1-copy-2-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/A1-copy-2-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/A1-copy-2-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/A1-copy-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Football legends Matt Le Tissier and Ron \u2018Chopper\u2019 Harris cut the ribbon at the opening of A1 Sporting Memorabilia\u2019s huge new state-of-the-art operations and warehouse centre in Christchurch, Dorset.<\/p>\n<p>Together with sister brand, Icons.com, we have expanded to include two new units that will house more staff, more space and \u2013 most important of all \u2013 more memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>Blue skies hung overhead as the doors to our new home were flung open for the very first time with Le Tissier and Harris posing for photos and joining in the celebrations. Shortly after, we took full advantage of our all-new dedicated signings area to conduct private signing sessions with both of the English football legends, christening the warehouse with the first collection of memorabilia to be signed on-site.<\/p>\n<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Matt-Le-Tissier-Ron-Harris-Warehouse-Opening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2792 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Matt-Le-Tissier-Ron-Harris-Warehouse-Opening-1024x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Matt-Le-Tissier-Ron-Harris-Warehouse-Opening-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Matt-Le-Tissier-Ron-Harris-Warehouse-Opening-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Matt-Le-Tissier-Ron-Harris-Warehouse-Opening-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Matt-Le-Tissier-Ron-Harris-Warehouse-Opening.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The move to a new and improved centre underlines the commitment of both A1 Sporting Memorabilia and Icons.com to providing our customers with the widest range of top-class, authentic signed memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>A new in-house framing area will provide us with much faster production and dispatch times while quality control is also markedly increased \u2013 giving you, the customer, only the best of the best.<\/p>\n<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Inside-Warehouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2778 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Inside-Warehouse-1024x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Inside-Warehouse-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Inside-Warehouse-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Inside-Warehouse-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Inside-Warehouse.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Icons Shop Limited CEO Dan Jamieson said: \u201cWe\u2019ve moved in here for ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of that is that we\u2019re committed. We\u2019re committed to the area, we\u2019re committed to what we do and we\u2019re committed to the world of memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we\u2019ve only just started. We just want to send our products around the world and bring people closer to their heroes. Coming here is just one part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Le-Tiss-Post-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2773 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/news.a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Le-Tiss-Post-2-1024x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Le-Tiss-Post-2-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Le-Tiss-Post-2-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Le-Tiss-Post-2-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Le-Tiss-Post-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football legends Matt Le Tissier and Ron \u2018Chopper\u2019 Harris cut the ribbon at the opening of A1 Sporting Memorabilia\u2019s huge new state-of-the-art operations and warehouse centre in Christchurch, Dorset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[821],"tags":[96,57,40,39,206,143,104,812,394,10,116,11,12,48,25],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a1-sporting-memorabilia","tag-a1-sporting-memorabilia","tag-authentic","tag-autograph","tag-autographed","tag-autographs","tag-collectable","tag-collectables","tag-england","tag-exclusive-memorabilia","tag-football","tag-jersey","tag-memorabilia","tag-signed","tag-signed-shirt","tag-signing-session"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1sportingmemorabilia.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}