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IDS is an international business, with strong British roots. We’re really proud to support UK manufacturing and most 1st Position™ dancewear is made in the UK. We are based in Devon, a beautiful part of south-west England, and employ over eighty people in our warehouse and offices. We have a showroom in the same building, open to all our customers, so if you’re looking for costumes for your show, a uniform for your class or even if you’re just on holiday in the South West and fancy having a cream tea with us, please do contact customer services to arrange a visit: we’d love to see you! A little bit of company history… IDS founder, Anne Walker, had always been part of the dance world: aged 17, she opened her own dance school in Liverpool and bought leotards and shoes at a discount in order to supply her students. Four years later in 1978, the product side was turning into a profitable business and Anne decided she could make better quality, better value leotards herself. She borrowed £50 to buy a very ancient industrial overlocker, enlisted some of her older students and parents to help out and went into production: IDS was born! Over the last four decades, IDS has become one of the world’s largest wholesale dancewear suppliers with a multi-million pound turnover. Our customer base includes thousands of dance teachers worldwide, with whom we have a reputation for quality products and great service. Many of our staff come to work at IDS with a background in dance and we are all passionate about what we do. In Autumn 2018, IDS was acquired by Audax Private Equity, and joined the Revolution Group of companies, including Dance Direct and Revolution Dancewear.

Since 1991, IES has been a global leader in providing expert engineering services that high-technology OEMs, manufacturers and end users across the globe can trust. - 30+ years’ experience - 2 locations worldwide - Bristol UK and Boston USA - 30,000 sq ft HQ in Bristol From carrying out specialist equipment moves and installations to conducting export packing and compliance testing services, we’re a trusted supplier and partner to some of the world’s most prestigious manufacturers. And we work with clients across a range of high-technology industries, including semiconductor, pharmaceutical, aerospace, defence and manufacturing. Whether you’re looking to relocate entire production lines across continents, install and commission complex tools locally or test equipment against UKCA, PUWER or EMF compliance regulations, our teams handle every single part of your project from beginning to end. And all in-house. From our installation and OEM-equipment-trained engineers to our riggers, specialist case makers, designers, packers and project planners, our expert team has decades of experience handling and working with high-technology capital equipment and is always eager to take on a new challenge.

IPS supplies Staging, Rigging, Lighting, Video, Sound & Power Distribution equipment on both a dry hire and full production basis. IPS has a huge stock of Litestructures LiteDeck, Layher Event Deck, and Prolyte Outdoor Roof Systems & Truss.