Wholesale Uniforms: Uniform Wholesaler Directory
Uniform wholesalers & distributors — work, medical, chef and corporate apparel programs.
Uniforms are how companies dress their workforces, and uniform wholesalers are the trade suppliers behind those programs: work shirts and trousers, medical scrubs, chef apparel and corporate apparel, supplied to uniform retailers, rental services and institutional buyers. The listings below range from a wholesale house serving the trade since 1910 to a uniform services company running rental and direct-purchase branded apparel programs for employers of every size. The guides above the listings lead to uniform retailers and the men's and women's uniform guides.
Wholesale Uniform Guides and Resources
Kelley and Abide Co.,Inc.
Kelley and Abide Co.,Inc. : Kelley and Abide Company has been servicing the Wholesale community since 1910. They have a long standing commitment to service and quality. They carry lines from manufacturers such as Hanes Printables and Jerzees activewear. Address: 4401 Euphrosine street New Orleans , Louisiana 70125 United States Phone: 504-822-2700 or 1-800-826-5468 Email: pweber@kelleyabide.com Contact: Gregory Abide - President
G&K Services
G&K Services / Stock Market Info.: Through G&K's branded business apparel and facility services, we will partner with you to enhance your image and safety in the workplace. Whether your company is a "Fortune 100" National Account, a mid-size regional player, or a fast-growing, small local business, G&K is big enough to meet your needs and small enough to care. Their market-leading services include: G&K Rental Services; Rented or leased branded identity apparel programs that include uniforms, corporate casual wear, and executive apparel, innovatively customized to the unique image, safety, and security needs of targeted industry and market segments. G&K TeamWearTM Direct; their line of personalized, custom-embroidered logo apparel and other products, as well as special event programs are sold directly to customers and tailored to enhance their brand image and identity needs. How employees look says a lot about their company. A professional uniform with the company brand enhances your image by adding instant credibility and shaping the way customers evaluate your services or products. G&K Services sells a full line of personalized, custom-embroidered logo apparel and other products to enhance the image of large and small businesses. Attractive apparel items, with or without your company's logo, make excellent employee and customer gifts. G&K's apparel line can help create the unified look you want at tradeshows and association events .
High Performance Uniforms
High Performance Uniforms (USA): High Performance Uniforms is the leading supplier in uniform and corporate apparel for every industry. They supply restaurants, hotels, resorts, businesses, and the promotional and embroidery markets. Family owned and operated for over 17 years they are dedicated to top quality garments. They manufacture domestically in the United States and are unparalleled in versatility, quality, and price. They hold the benchmark standard of garments in any industry which include tailored career apparel, front desk, restaurant, hotel, housekeeping, casual and active wear. They are dedicated to providing you with the entire uniform and garment program for your business. Also do private label and work with you from start to finish. They understand image is everything, and promise to help you get everything out of yours. Address: 900 Skokie Blvd. Ste. 220 Northbrook, IL 60062 Phone: 866-678-5607 Contact: Alex sales@highperformanceuniforms.com
Sheehan Sales,Inc
Sheehan Sales,Inc: They purchase complete and partial inventories of a wide variety of apparel items, especially medical clothing and scrubs. Address: 1408 Transport Dr., Raleigh NC. 27603 USA Phone: 919-212-1673 Email: sheehansales@sheehansales.org Contact: John Sheehan-President,Sandi Sheehan-Vice President
Star Investment & Trading LLC
Star Investment & Trading LLC: Importer and wholesaler of textile fabrics, apparel, home / kitchen textiles, uniforms, and schiffli embroidered laces, trims, borders including guipure laces. Provides complete package full service production of all apparel and home / kitchen textile products. Address: 9909 West Roosevelt Road, Suite 204-A Westchester, Illinois 60154 USA Phone: 708 345 6234 Email: starusa@att.net Contact: Aamir Bandukda, Partner
How Uniform Supply Works
Uniform buying splits into two models, and the listings contain both. Product wholesalers sell garments: houses like Kelley and Abide, servicing the wholesale community since 1910 with lines from manufacturers such as Hanes Printables and Jerzees, stock t-shirts, chef apparel, scrub suits, activewear, headwear, sportswear and rainwear for uniform retailers and screen printers to decorate and resell. Service companies sell programs: G&K Services' model partners with employers to enhance workplace image and safety through rental services - leased branded identity apparel programs including uniforms, corporate casual wear and executive apparel - and direct-purchase lines of personalized, custom-embroidered logo apparel for companies from Fortune 100 national accounts to small local businesses.
Under both models the economics are program economics. A uniform is not a one-season garment purchase; it is a standing specification - same styles, colors and decoration, reordered as employees join and garments wear out. That is why the trade's own institutions matter: the National Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors and the industry's magazine, both linked above the listings, are where uniform specifications, supplier standards and program practices are tracked. Retailers entering uniform supply should decide early whether they are selling product, service or both, because stocking depth, embroidery capability and laundry arrangements differ completely between the models.
Specifying a Uniform Program
Whether you buy from a product wholesaler or a service company, the specification questions are the same. How employees look shapes how customers evaluate a business, so start with image: fit range across the whole workforce, garment durability under industrial laundering, and decoration quality for embroidered logos. Continue with continuity: will the specified styles stay available for the program's life, and what happens when a style is discontinued. Finish with the working details - size scales, replacement rates, delivery schedules and who owns the garments. The wholesalers in the listings answer these questions as their daily business; use the listings to open the conversation with the model that matches yours.
The industry's association and magazine, linked above the listings, are practical tools rather than decoration. The National Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors represents the manufacturers and distributors who set uniform specifications across the trade, and its magazine covers the uniform and career apparel industry's products, programs and standards. A retailer or employer building a serious uniform program should follow both: specifications change, fabrics improve and service models evolve, and the buyers who track the trade's own publications negotiate from knowledge when they sit down with the wholesalers listed here.
Common Questions
What is the difference between a uniform wholesaler and a uniform service company?
A uniform wholesaler sells garments - work shirts, scrubs, chef apparel, headwear - to retailers and decorators. A uniform service company sells programs: rental or direct-purchase branded apparel, often with embroidery, laundering and replacement handled as a service.
What products do uniform wholesalers stock?
T-shirts, chef apparel, scrub suits, activewear, headwear, sportswear and rainwear, plus work shirts, trousers and corporate apparel - the garment base that uniform retailers and embroidery shops decorate and supply to employers.
What should an employer check in a uniform program?
Fit range across the workforce, durability under industrial laundering, embroidery quality, style continuity for the program's life, replacement rates, delivery schedules and whether garments are rented or owned.