Business Update 11/17/2024

Thanks, I am not going out of business - we are just no longer in active production, manufacturing on any products at this time.

Selling down in stock.

I am just selling down stock items, top quality USA Made. We have what we have only on the website SurgicalCaps.com

I was unable to find new manufacturing locally or in the USA or Overseas that made financial sense.

First online sale August 1999, in 25 years I only missed 4 days of not touching every order, about 9125 days of orders went thru my hands, missed 4 days

Merger unsuccessful. Business Sale unsuccessful. The Business Climate has changed.

My father took care of my mother for the last 15 years, one day he just stopped - he went into hospice ( lasted 7 days ) and has passed away. I immediately in 10 days moved everything from California back to my parent's home in Indiana to take over my mother's life, healthcare and their personal affairs. I was on call 24/7. For about the last 1 year and 7 months my mother had been really struggling with her health, mental abilities, nursing care levels 2, 3, 4 and entered hospice and end of her life. I am finished working through the business of Death, Taxes and Life issues for my mother as I did for my father. Finally, I was able to bury both my parents next to my sister.

I am re-looking for new manufacturing, but the American economy, labor, shipping and raw materials are just more expensive, last week I contacted a few more US companies to check on manufacturing and they never called or emailed me back, I'll try again this week. I cannot make people manufacture / sew. Maybe something will come up or I have to completely change the business model too? The Chinese Companies are selling scrubs caps for about $2.95 each free USA delivery direct from China about 15 days, grand total $2.95 each. Not good fabric polyesters, Not good quality fabric weight, Not good engineering design, but a great price $2.95 each. USA labor rates are $15 to $20 an hour, just labor, no materials or shipping, both materials / postage keeps going up and USPS raised prices twice - USPS starts at about $4.35 minimum each USA package, doing the math doesn't make any financial sense, I can't make the numbers work. Selling a $30 scrub cap?

Not sure of the future. Just need to sell what I have manufactured in stock to keep money coming in. 

Maybe some business magic will happen. I keep looking for manufacturing / production. It is the hardest part of running an apparel business, the very REAL WORK: the LABOR & the ART of PRODUCTION SEWING.
I can't make people sew.

sorry - thanks. I did the best I could. Clifford