19 Best Wholesale Denim Suppliers [2024 Edition]

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

If you're considering starting a business, a critical piece will be to find the best wholesale supplier or manufacturer for your denim brand.

After interviewing thousands of founders, we've identified that finding a manufacturer online for your denim brand is one of the most difficult parts to starting a business, and often times, where entrepreneurs find themselves hitting a brick wall.

The main reason for this is that there are so many options out there and finding the best wholesale supplier, manufacturer or distributer for your denim brand can be a challenge.

In this post, we've found and vetted the best wholesale suppliers and manufacturers for your denim brand to simplify the outreach process for you.

Additionally, we provide you with each wholesale supplier and manufacturers:

Location
Number of Employees
Annual Revenue
Year Established

At the end of this article, we provide you with the top sourcing and outreach tips when looking for your wholesale supplier.

Top Suppliers And Manufacturers For Your Denim Brand

As promised, we've vetted the 19 best wholesale denim suppliers [2024 edition].

Here they are:

#1: unknown

Location: Pennsylvania
Country: United States
Employees: 200
Year Founded: 2008

Learn more at their website ➜

#2: Pineapple Clothing Co.

Mommy and Me matching outfits for girls and women by Pineapple Clothing. Free Shipping. Made in the USA. Plus sizes available. Shop now!

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1987

Learn more at their website ➜

#3: Embroidered Polo Shirts

Embroidered Polo Shirts. Free set-up & digitizing. Company shirts and corporate apparel. FREE shipping and personalized service. In business over 30 years!

Location: Illinois
Country: United States
Employees: 1
Year Founded: 2012

Learn more at their website ➜

#4: The Carnegie Textile Co.

Year Founded: 1937

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Learn more about starting a denim brand:

Where to start?

-> How to start a denim brand?
-> How much does it cost to start a denim brand?
-> Pros and cons of a denim brand

Need inspiration?

-> Other denim brand success stories
-> Examples of established denim brand
-> Marketing ideas for a denim brand
-> Denim brand slogans
-> Denim brand names

Other resources

-> Denim brand tips

#6: Ovasco Industries

Delivering sustainable, and effective packaging, clean-up, and erosion control solutions to buinsess in Louisville, KY and across the United States.

Location: Kentucky
Country: United States
Employees: 10
Year Founded: 1921

Learn more at their website ➜

#7: Burlington

Burlington provides durable and effective textile performance technologies, engineered to make your fabric work for you. We make fabrics perform.

Location: North Carolina
Country: United States
Employees: 1000

Learn more at their website ➜

#8: Riegel Textile Corporation

Learn more at their website ➜

#9: National Textile and Apparel, Inc

World Leaders in Flame Resistant (FR) Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Employees: 50
Year Founded: 1994

Learn more at their website ➜

#10: Textile & Fabric Cutting, Sewing & Converting

We provide innovative solutions and services to the textile, apparel, and dairy industries.

Location: Ohio
Country: United States
Employees: 10
Year Founded: 1902

Learn more at their website ➜

#11: JJ Fabrics

Location: Pennsylvania
Country: United States

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#12: Mount Vernon Mills, Inc.

Employees: 1000
Year Founded: 1847

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#13: Western Bag Co., Ltd

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1949

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#14: Calitex International

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 2005

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#15: Elmore Products, LLC

Employees: 10
Year Founded: 1974

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#16: Mill Wiping Rags, Inc.

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#17: Industrial Wiping Cloth Co., Inc.

Quality Wiping Cloths for Every Purpose

Location: Missouri
Country: United States
Employees: 10
Year Founded: 1989

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#18: Deantex Inc.

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#19: American Associated Companies, Inc.

Employees: 1
Year Founded: 1911

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#20: Fox-Rich Textiles, Inc.

Fox-Rich is a fabric converter, importer/exporter and manufacturer of hunting and theatrical fabric, airplane cloth, organic cotton and government specification fabric.

Year Founded: 1982

Learn more at their website ➜

Database Of Top 21 Wholesale Suppliers and Manufacturers For Your Denim Brand

Below we put together a summary of the top 21 wholesale suppliers and manufacturers for your denim brand.

#	Name	Location	Year Est.
1	unknown	Pennsylvania	2008
2	Pineapple Clothing Co.		1987
3	Embroidered Polo Shirts	Illinois	2012
4	The Carnegie Textile Co.		1937
5	Ovasco Industries	Kentucky	1921
6	Burlington	North Carolina
7	Riegel Textile Corporation
8	National Textile and Apparel, Inc		1994
9	Textile & Fabric Cutting, Sewing & Converting	Ohio	1902
10	JJ Fabrics	Pennsylvania
11	Mount Vernon Mills, Inc.		1847
12	Western Bag Co., Ltd		1949
13	Calitex International		2005
14	Elmore Products, LLC		1974
15	Mill Wiping Rags, Inc.
16	Industrial Wiping Cloth Co., Inc.	Missouri	1989
17	Deantex Inc.
18	American Associated Companies, Inc.		1911
19	Fox-Rich Textiles, Inc.		1982

Guide: How To Find A Manufacturer And Supplier For Your Denim Brand

Before you reach out to suppliers and manufacturers for your denim brand, it's important that you are fully prepared and have done your due diligence.

We've outlined a few tips to help give you a better understanding of what you. may be looking for, which will make your outreach process much more seamless.

Tips For Finding A Supplier And Manufacturer For Your Denim Brand

Know Your Product Idea Inside And Out

One critical step to finding the right supplier is having an initial idea of what your design/product will look like.

Sketching is one of the most simple ways to get started in the design phase.

What's great about sketching is that you can practically do this anytime, anywhere - even on the back of a napkin.

To get started, all you need to do is pick up a pen and paper and start drawing - or if you are working on a virtual/software product this can be a diagram that outlines the user interface or experience.

Decide what type of supplier you want

You'll want to identify the type of supplier you are looking for.

Here are some questions you may want to ask yourself prior to searching for a supplier

Are you looking for a manufacturer to produce your product idea?
Do you want to find a supplier that can simply purchase existing products for you?
Do you want a drop-shipper to supply and fulfill orders?
Do you want a domestic supplier or an overseas supplier? Read more about the pros and cons of each here

How To Reach Out To Suppliers For Your Denim Brand

Once you've found one or multiple suppliers, your next step will be to approach them.

Crafting the right message with the necessary details can help your chances of receiving a response with all the information you need.

Here are a few important questions to consider asking in your message:

What is your minimum order quantity?
What is your turnaround time?
What are your payment terms?
What is your sample pricing?
What is your production pricing?

Suppliers are bombarded with hundreds of requests every day, the majority of people simply shopping around to get the best quote. It's common for suppliers to take their time responding or not respond at all if they feel the request or message isn't legitimate or worth their time.

To avoid this happening, keep your message clear, concise and high level. You can always go into more detail in the second or third email with the supplier.

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Pat Walls

I'm Pat Walls and I created Starter Story - a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. We interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started and grew their businesses.

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