Commercial Embroidery Services in the US - Industry Market Research Report

Stitched together: Persistent threats of offshoring and competition will likely mitigate industry revenue growth

Through some of the past five years, falling unemployment and rising per capita disposable income benefited commercial embroidery servicers. While the decade-long trend of large multifunctional apparel companies integrating embellishment processes into their operations poses a threat to operators, stable underlying demand from commercial buyers in need of providing embroidered uniforms to an increasing number of employees initially kept operators' revenue steady. However, this core market, coupled with downstream buyers which include the administrative and hospitality sectors, endured a sharp fall in demand in 2020 due to COVID-19, significantly hampering core revenue channels and demand streams for operators' services. Over the past five years, industry revenue has been falling at a CAGR of 2.8% and is expected to reach $1.1 billion in 2023. This includes an estimated 0.1% slip in 2023 alone. The significant pullback in demand from apparel manufacturing also affected profit, which is anticipated to fall to 3.7% of revenue in 2023.

Operators primarily provide embroidery services to clients. The embroidery process involves the use of a sewing machine that creates predetermined patterns on clothing and other textiles. These patterns can be designed using specialist software. Services are often sold to companies, teams and clubs for shirts, uniforms and other paraphernalia.

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