Kids Kaper, a children's clothing company set up in 1998 by Katherine Walker, of Woking, Surrey, has been chosen as a case study by the Department of Trade and Industry.

The DTI has commissioned a video featuring Kids Kaper alongside a Saville Row tie-maker and a manufacturer of tweed in the Scottish island of Harris, amongst other textile companies who are utilising the internet.

The video is to form part of a DTI roadshow promoting the use of the internet in the textile industry.

This week, Ms Walker has heard that the video is also being distributed in a CD-ROM version attached to every copy of the fashion trade magazine 'Drapers Record' [16/03/2001 issue].

Ms Walker said "I am very pleased and excited. Everybody reads the Drapers Record and it's fantastic publicity for me. I can't believe that all this has happened so quickly. The website only went live in October last year."

Reproduced in a Surrey newspaper (Woking News and Mail - 22 nd March 2001).