Cintas Corporation

Cincinnati, OH United States

  (NASDAQ: CTAS)

Company Description

If Cintas had its way, you'd never agonize over what to wear to work. The #1 uniform supplier in the US has about 800,000 clients (Delta Air Lines, DHL) and some 5 million people wear its garb each day. Cintas -- which sells, leases, and rents uniforms -- operates more than 420 facilities across the US and Canada; it leases about half of them. Besides offering shirts, jackets, slacks, and footwear, the company provides clean-room apparel and flame-resistant clothing. Other products offered by Cintas include uniform cleaning, first-aid and safety products, clean-room supplies, and document handling and storage. CEO Scott Farmer owns about 10% of the firm. His father, Richard, founded the company in 1968.