KNOCKOUT SPORTSWEAR
Our Mission & Values
Our mission at Knockout Sportswear is to offer superior design, quality and value to the customer. We will accomplish this by being committed to offering great service and real value to our business partners and customers.
Trusted
IT’S WHO WE ARE
No matter what — we focus on your needs first. It’s a promise.
Fair Prices
We offer competitive pricing on full-sublimation sportswear. Don’t go through a middle man and pay extra… Order through us and save.
Fast & Responsive
Our friendly team is always there to help you, we’ve got your back.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
If you are not 100% Satisfied, if you are even the slightest bit under whelmed, just email or call us within first 7 days and we will be happy to solve the issue.
OUR STORY
Knockout Sportswear is a family owned and operated manufacturing company specializing in sublimated athletic sports apparel. The family originates from Tauranga – in fact the maternal grandmother milked cows on the Strand in the early 1920’s. Knockout Sportswear has been manufacturing sports apparel for 21 years and has an additional 25 years of apparel manufacturing experience before that.
Our goal is to provide individually unique, innovative, and quality sporting apparel at the best possible price. KO has over 256,000 colours in its library and is a one stop shop for all your sports apparel needs. Don’t look like everyone else albeit in different colours, stand out from crowd and KNOCKOUT the competition
We offer full design and manufacturing services for your school or club. KO specializes in sublimation printing, where any design is possible! Our dye sublimation process involves using unique sublimation inks and special sublimation transfer paper.
The designs are first printed onto the transfer paper and then when placed under high temperature, the ink is impregnated permanently into the fibres of the fabric. This process guarantees your uniforms will never crack fade or peel. That means you can enjoy your uniforms for years to come. We never phase out your design – it is available for you forever..
WHAT IS SUBLIMATION?
Sublimation printing is a fantastic apparel printing process that allows us to achieve designs, patterns, and prints that they other guys can’t!
Other methods of fabric printing do not allow for the same freedom of creativity!
Sublimation involves…
YOUR AWESOME DESIGN
You can be as creative or as classic as you want! Sublimation allows us to create almost any design imaginable!
PRINTERS AND INKS
Your design is mirrored and printed onto special sublimation paper using the highest quality Italian inks.
HEAT AND PRESSURE
The paper is then pressed onto the fabric using tremendous pressure and heat allowing the inks to permanently impregnate the fabric!
OUR TEAM
ROGER THOMAS
R.I.P
25.11.51 – 15.01.22
Our beloved Roger (aka “BB”) sadly passed away in January 2022. The team at KO miss him daily but continue to follow in his footsteps and deliver unique, innovative and quality sporting apparel. Roger touched the hearts of many and will never be forgotten.
MELLISSA
PAM
ROB SMITH
SALES MANAGER
SOUTH WAIKATO, GISBORNE, NAPIER, TARANAKI, MANAWATU, WELLINGTON, ROTORUA
MOBILE: 027 558 9061
EMAIL: rob@knockout.co.nz
DANIKA STOBIE