Cintas - Fashion Company Profile
Cintas is the Cincinnati company that rents and services corporate uniforms and workplace supplies: founded in 1929 from a business collecting and laundering shop rags, it now designs uniform programmes, delivers and launders the garments on route rounds, and supplies mats, restroom and first-aid services to more than a million North American businesses. The directory's own filing for Cintas was always a short one - a statement of the uniform-programme idea rather than a company history - so that record is kept on this single page, headed by the current position above. No shop box appears here: Cintas sells services to businesses, not products carried by marketplaces.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - the largest US corporate uniform and facility services company
- Type
- Public - NASDAQ: CTAS
- Headquarters
- Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Founded
- 1929, in Cincinnati, as the Acme Industrial Laundry Company
Company Profile
The one further fact historical descriptions give is scale, dated 2020: in 2020 they operate more than 400 facilities in North America - including six manufacturing plants and eight distribution centers. Read with the lead sentence, the picture is complete enough to be useful: a uniform-program supplier whose offer extends well past garments, into the mats at the door, the supplies in the restroom, the first aid and fire protection on the wall, and the cleaning of the floors - the full serviced workplace, rented and maintained rather than simply sold.
The Uniform Program Idea, In Context
The context a directory reader needs for this filing is what a 'corporate identity uniform program' is, and the term explains itself from the words the original uses. Instead of selling work clothing once, a program supplier outfits a workforce in identity-bearing uniforms - the employer's colours, logos and role distinctions made wearable - and then services the arrangement: laundering, repair, replacement and the surrounding facility services the same sentence lists. It is the B2B end of the apparel industry, invisible in consumer fashion media, and it is why this names guide files uniform suppliers beside consumer brands: businesses look them up by name for contracts, not for shopping.
Within Apparel Search's own structure, the preserved routes on this page lead to the uniform retailers and uniform factories areas - the buying and making ends of that trade - and the Carhartt profile in this letter links back the other way, carrying Cintas as its rental route (Carhartt Rental, in the References of that page). Capital Mercury Apparel, also in this letter, serves the adjacent promotional-products channel. Together the three filings map the working-clothing economy that runs underneath the fashion industry this directory mostly records: uniforms programmed, workwear branded, and promotional apparel wholesaled.
Common Questions
What does Cintas supply, per its historical profile?
Corporate identity uniform programs, entrance and logo mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, first aid, safety and fire protection products and services, and industrial carpet and tile cleaning - leading the industry in supplying them.
How large is Cintas's operation in the filed record?
In 2020 it operated more than 400 facilities in North America, including six manufacturing plants and eight distribution centers, in the historical record.
Does the original give Cintas's founding or headquarters?
No - the original is a short services statement plus the 2020 facility count, and this page adds neither a founding date nor a headquarters; current corporate details belong to cintas.com, carried in the References.
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