Men's Wholesale Activewear

Men's Activewear at Wholesale: Fleece, Tees, Shorts and Training Gear

Activewear is the working end of a men's department. The core garments repeat across almost every listing on this page: fleece tops and sweatshirts for warm-ups and cold mornings, knit t-shirts for training, shorts and pants for the gym and the field, and jackets that move between sport and street. Buyers sourcing men's activewear at wholesale are usually stocking one of three settings. Sporting-goods and clothing stores need branded and unbranded ranges in a full size run. Gyms, schools and team outfitters need durable, repeatable styles they can reorder season after season. Screen printers and embroiderers need blank, imprintable garments — the fleece, tees and sweatshirts that carry a team name, a company logo or an event design.

Two size notes run through the listings. Big and tall appears again and again, because men's active ranges are commonly cut in extended sizes and a buyer who cannot cover big and tall loses the sale. Boys' sizes appear almost as often: many men's wholesalers produce or distribute a matching boys' line, so a store can stock father-and-son versions of the same fleece or short from a single supplier. Where a company carries boys' or big and tall, its listing says so.

Full-Line Distributors, Brand Houses and Imprintable Specialists

The companies below are not all the same kind of business, and the listings reward a quick read before a phone call. Full-line distributors carry activewear as one department among many — sportswear, outerwear, denim, dress shirts and tailored clothing under one roof — which suits a store restocking a whole men's department from a few suppliers. Brand houses such as the surf, skate and fashion names in the list sell their own labels and collections, which suits a store whose customers shop the brand first. Imprintable specialists concentrate on blank garments: Friedman's Activewear built its name on imprintable brands, Jon Lauren Apparel on hooded sweatshirts in prepacks for printers and discount chains, and Kelley and Abide has supplied printable t-shirts and activewear to the wholesale trade since 1910.

There are specialists at the edges, too: Als Enterprises lists activewear garments made with activated charcoal, Authentic Image Marketing pairs activewear with swimwear for the beach market, and Catalina Bay covers men's, women's and children's sizes in the same sports shirts and wind shirts. Reading the category line of each listing is the fastest way to match a supplier to the order you actually need to place.

Men's Activewear Wholesalers