CANADIAN NEWS November 02, 2021
Bishop Custom Clothing Rebrands as EdwardsX
The change signals the successful integration of the custom apparel maker into parent company Edwards Garment, a Top 40 promo products supplier.
Top 40 supplier Edwards Garment (asi/51752) has rebranded Bishop Custom Clothing as EdwardsX.
The move completes Edwards’ 2019 acquisition of Vancouver, B.C.-based Bishop, signaling the culmination of a successful integration process.
“Throughout these past two years, the leadership team began merging services to take full advantage of the many synergies between the two organizations,” said Jose Gomez, president of Edwards Garment. “It was time to complete the integration with a fresh rebrand of this great team.”
Executives said the EdwardsX brand strengthens Kalamazoo, MI-headquartered Edwards Garment’s ability to provide a broad assortment of career apparel products and services to the promotional products industry. In business for 23 years, EdwardsX focuses solely on custom apparel design, manufacturing and delivery.
“EdwardsX provides exclusively designed and mindfully sourced 100% custom apparel and accessories to the world’s most successful brands and largest organizations,” the company said in a statement. “We offer unrivaled design-to-delivery solutions, spanning from boutique limited-edition creations to some of the largest and most complex uniform programs.”
The rebrand of EdwardsX will be visible through messages with distributors, in presentations to key markets and throughout the company website.
Edwards offers a robust product and service assortment to complement the uniform apparel space, executives said. Promo products “distributors can take advantage of Edwards complete program of services that include in-stock catalog products, domestic decoration services, POP custom or templated custom services, and exclusive custom design with EdwardsX,” the company said.
With reported 2020 North American promotional product revenue of $54.8 million, Edwards Garment ranked 24th on Counselor’s most recent list of the largest suppliers in the industry. Edwards Garment provides career and uniform apparel to some of the biggest hotels, casinos, private security companies and healthcare facilities in North America.