What Barco Uniforms Inc. does

Barco Uniforms Inc. is a privately held apparel manufacturer founded in 1929 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, specializing in medical uniforms and scrubs for the healthcare industry. The company serves healthcare facilities — including hospitals, clinics, and individual medical professionals — as its primary customer segment, positioning itself as a niche specialist within a market also occupied by Medline Industries, Cintas Corporation, Superior Uniform Group, and Careismatic Brands.

The company's core product line is medical scrubs, with a recent product development emphasis on eco-friendly and innovation-focused apparel featuring advanced fabric technology, including antimicrobial coatings and sustainable materials. This represents a stated pivot toward ESG-aligned differentiation in a category historically driven by commodity pricing and volume. Barco employs between 251 and 500 people and operates as a privately held company with no disclosed parent organization or institutional investor backing identified in available sources.

Barco's business model is built on B2B and institutional sales of uniforms to healthcare providers, though specific pricing models, distribution channels, and customer-level revenue mix are not disclosed in the available data. The company maintains an Asian sourcing relationship through multiple supplier entities, which became the subject of an April 2025 U.S. Department of Justice False Claims Act intervention alleging customs duty fraud via sham invoicing — a material legal and supply-chain risk overhang on the business.

Name

Barco Uniforms Inc.

Legal name

Barco Uniforms Inc.

Website

https://barcouniforms.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1929

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Barco Uniforms Inc., founded in 1929 in Los Angeles, is a private manufacturer of medical scrubs and healthcare uniforms, recently emphasizing eco-friendly fabrics with antimicrobial coatings for hospitals, clinics, and healthcare professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Apparel

NAICS

Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing (3152), Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing (except Contractors) (31525), Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing (31699), Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing (316990), Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing (3169)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841), Women's, Misses', And Juniors Outerwear (2330)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical & Healthcare Uniforms (Scrubs, Lab Coats) (CRAAALAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Uniforms (Office, Hospitality, Retail Staff) (CRAAALAB), Cleanroom & Controlled-Environment Apparel (CRAAALAG), Belts & Suspenders (CRAAAJAD), Protective Disposable Wear (Masks, Gloves, Shoe Covers, Hairnets) (CRADALAJ)

Keywords

• Medical scrubs
• Healthcare uniforms
• Medical apparel
• Hospital workwear
• Healthcare clothing

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Barco Uniforms Inc. manufactures and sells medical scrubs and uniforms designed for healthcare professionals working in hospitals, clinics, and clinical settings. The company focuses on eco-friendly materials and innovation-led product lines, including antimicrobial-coated and sustainable fabrics intended to address hygiene requirements, long-shift comfort, and professional appearance.

Product overview

Barco Uniforms Inc. is a manufacturer of medical uniforms and scrubs for the healthcare industry. The company offers medical scrubs as its core product offering, with recent focus on introducing eco-friendly and innovation-focused product lines. Barco Uniforms competes alongside major industry players including Medline Industries, Cintas Corporation, Superior Uniform Group, and Careismatic Brands in the global medical scrubs market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Medical Scrubs

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Chan Defendants (David Chan, Kenny Chan)minorOthers · 11 April 2025The Chan defendants controlled multiple companies that manufactured and sold uniforms to Barco Uniforms. These companies allegedly created falsified invoices—submitting a lower falsified price to CBP while the actual agreed price was higher—allowing them to underpay customs duties and offer Barco lower prices to win contracts.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Medline Industries: Medline is one of the largest privately held medical supply manufacturers, with a significant medical scrubs and healthcare apparel business. It competes directly with Barco for hospital and clinical uniform contracts, and is named alongside Barco as a key player in the medical scrubs market.
• Cintas Corporation: Cintas is a major uniform provider that serves healthcare facilities with both rental and direct-purchase uniform programs, including medical scrubs. It competes with Barco across healthcare uniform sourcing and is cited as a primary market competitor.
• Careismatic Brands: Careismatic Brands owns leading medical scrub brands such as Cherokee, Dickies Medical, and Heartsoul, and is named as a direct competitor of Barco Uniforms. Its portfolio-based approach to healthcare apparel makes it a closely comparable peer.
• Superior Uniform Group: Superior Uniform Group manufactures and sells uniforms and image apparel, including medical scrubs, to healthcare and other vertical markets. It is explicitly cited as a major competitor of Barco in the medical scrubs market.
• FIGS: FIGS is a direct-to-consumer medical scrubs and apparel brand targeting individual healthcare professionals. While its go-to-market is more consumer-led than Barco's, it competes for the same end customer wallet share in healthcare uniforms.
• Landau Uniforms: Landau Uniforms manufactures healthcare scrubs and medical apparel sold to hospitals, dental offices, and veterinary clinics. Its product range, customer base, and uniform focus closely overlap with Barco's core offering.
• Encompass Group: Encompass Group designs, manufactures, and supplies healthcare textiles and apparel including scrubs, lab coats, and patient apparel. It is a comparable specialty healthcare uniform manufacturer serving similar hospital and clinical customers.

Emerging players

• Koi Design: Koi is a contemporary medical scrubs and healthcare apparel brand with a strong design-led identity sold through DTC and specialty channels. It overlaps with Barco in core product category but competes more on style and brand-driven differentiation.

Broad incumbents

• Henry Schein: Henry Schein is a large healthcare distribution and products company that supplies practitioners with medical supplies, including selected apparel categories. Its broad portfolio across medical and dental supplies makes it an adjacent incumbent rather than a uniform-focused peer.

Regional players

• Scrubs & Beyond: Scrubs & Beyond is a multi-brand specialty retailer of medical scrubs and healthcare apparel selling brands across the U.S. It overlaps with Barco indirectly as a downstream retail channel and competitor for end-customer demand in medical uniforms.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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