Our History

Since Rentwear was founded in 1972, we’ve committed to improving and growing our business to better serve our customers’ needs. Our acquisitions and internal advancements made us the great company we are today. Take a look at our company timeline to see how we’ve grown.

Founded by Roger Clay and James Brown. Uniform rental, dust control, career apparel, shop towels, continuous towels were offered as our services.

Building expansion of 6,000 square feet to add linen and related services.

Acquired Mop-X Co.

Acquisition of Charm

Building expansion to add sales and service offices, truck maintenance garage lunchroom and storage area.

Building expansion to accommodate a route distribution area, stockroom and storage garage.

Acquired Solar Rental Services.

Saniserv Inc, our sister Company in dust control was formed.

Acquired Acme Cleaners.

Established American Pad Ex Franchise.

Building expansion to accommodate a chemical storage area.

Acquired a block of Unitog accounts. 8,000 sq/ft building constructed for mat production and warehouse, the building is partially leased to Saniserv.

Acquired Voris Inc. accounts.

Acquired Majestic and American Laundry.

Web debut at rentwear.com.

Acquired The Sanitary Linen Company.

Relocated the Stockroom to 7980 Whipple Ave.

Installation of new 25,000 gallon wastewater tank.

Acquired Myers Services Inc.

Installation of GPS equipment into delivery and service vehicles.

Conversion to four day routes.

Acquired the Ohio accounts of national competitor, G&K Services.

Installation of new servers, update of all computer hardware and transition to Fulcrum for route accounting.

Acquired Smith Laundry in Galion, Ohio.

Acquired Swan Laundry accounts in Mansfield, Ohio.

Added a covered unloading and loading area to the front plant.