G&K Services
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G&K Services ) provides branded identity
apparel and facility services programs. G&K Services' branded apparel and facility services programs provide rental-lease or purchase options through its direct sale programs.
G&K Services' primary offerings are custom-embroidered logo apparel programs, facility services such as restroom supplies and floor mats, cleanroom garments, and process control services. It serves various industries including automotive, warehousing, distribution, transportation, energy, manufacturing, food processing, pharmaceutical, semi-conductor, retail, restaurants, security, airline, and hospitality.
Acquisition History - G&K grows with the acquisition and strategic operational integration of the following companies:
Brand
The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."...
apparel and facility services programs. G&K Services' branded apparel and facility services programs provide rental-lease or purchase options through its direct sale programs.
G&K Services' primary offerings are custom-embroidered logo apparel programs, facility services such as restroom supplies and floor mats, cleanroom garments, and process control services. It serves various industries including automotive, warehousing, distribution, transportation, energy, manufacturing, food processing, pharmaceutical, semi-conductor, retail, restaurants, security, airline, and hospitality.
Speciality products
- Food Safety Solutions - G&K Services provides ProSura, a program to mitigate cross-contamination to improve food safetyFood safetyFood safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards....
in the food processing, grocery and restaurant industries. ProSura supports organizations in these industries with their Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans, along with the BioSmart fabric technology that kills many common bacteria and is the only food safety program of its kind currently in place in the garment supplier industry.
- Flame Resistant Technology - G&K Services is a large provider of flame resistant garments and personal protective equipment by developing and providing the ProTect flame resistant safety solutions.
- Cleanroom Solutions - The G&K Services Accutrak scanning and tracing system identifies pick-up, delivery, usage, wash history and repair status of all garments for traceability and inventory control for the cleanroomCleanroomA cleanroom is an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. More accurately, a cleanroom has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by...
industry.
History
G&K began as a small, family-owned dye house and has grown into a large provider of branded identity apparel programs and facility services.- 1902 - Company founded as Twin City Steam Dye Works renamed to Gross & Kronick Dyers
- 1910 - Gross & Kronick introduces "door-to-door" laundry service
- 1948 - G&K offers "diaper service" due to the baby boom
- 1960 - G&K responds to the automobile wave by opening "drive-in cleaners"
- 1969 - G&K goes public
Acquisition History - G&K grows with the acquisition and strategic operational integration of the following companies:
- 1991 - WorkWear of Canada
- 1994 - BCP Garment Manufacturing
- 1997 - National Linen Service
- 1999 - Northeast Dust Products (Iowa)
- 2002 - Rental Uniform Company
- 2004 - Keefer Laundry Limited (Western Canada)
- 2004 - Nettoyeur Shefford (Quebec)
- 2004 - Marathon Linen
- 2004 - Lion Uniform Group
- 2005 - Custom Linen Systems
- 2005 - Coyne Textile Services (US East Coast Region)
- 2005 - Glis and Glis Laundries (Canada)
- 2007 - Grand Rapids Coat & Apron Service(Grantex)
- 2007 - Alltex Uniform Rental Service (New England)
- 2007 - Nanoclean Limited (Ireland)
- 2008 - Best Uniform Rental Service (US Mid-Atlantic)