How Offices Buy Corporate Uniforms Wholesale
By The Velocity Wear Team
An office programme is a standing stock rather than a one-off order. Pick one or two garments, order fifty pieces per design from $20 a piece upward, keep the spec written down, and hold the remainder for new starters. The programme that fails is the one where nobody recorded which polo, which colour and which logo position was approved.
What belongs in an office onboarding kit?
Usually one branded garment people will genuinely wear plus something optional for colder months. A polo at $18 or a tee at $13 covers the first; an outer layer covers the second. Caps at $12 are a common addition for teams that spend time outside or at client sites, and everything runs as a single programme through our wholesale uniforms page.
Resist the urge to include five items. A kit with one well-chosen garment that fits gets worn; a kit with five gets picked over and the rest sits in a drawer. Each design you add is another fifty pieces against the minimum, so restraint saves money as well as cupboard space.
How do you keep sizing records for repeat hires?
Record the size issued against the person at the point of handout, and record the garment specification somewhere that survives a change of office manager. That second record is the one that goes missing. Garment, colour, decoration position, thread or ink colour and the size curve you ordered: five lines that make the next order a confirmation instead of an investigation.
It is also what keeps the programme consistent as it repeats. A hire in year two wearing a noticeably different shade of the same polo undermines the reason you bought uniforms at all. The corporate and offices page sets out how a standing programme is usually structured.
How formal should the garment be?
Match the room. A shirt reads as formal and needs to be maintained that way, which is a real ask of people who did not choose it. A polo sits comfortably in most offices and survives a machine wash without ceremony. Branding follows the same logic: a discreet embroidered mark suits a professional setting better than a large print.
If client-facing and internal teams need different levels of formality, that is two designs and two minimums, so decide whether the difference is worth a hundred pieces rather than fifty. The wider argument is covered in building a corporate apparel program.
What does an office programme cost to start?
Fifty pieces of one design at the from-price, plus decoration, plus delivery, plus the £150 sample if you take one, which is credited against the bulk order. For a team of twenty that buys two garments each with a decent reserve left over, and the reserve is what makes it a programme rather than a purchase.
Larger organisations ordering across sites move into better tiers quickly, from 50–99 through to 1,000 and above with up to 35% off the fifty-piece price, as the pricing page shows. Consolidating several offices into one order is usually worth more than negotiating on a small one.
Offboarding is the half of the programme nobody writes down. Decide whether kit comes back when someone leaves, say so at the point it is issued, and record the decision against the size log you are already keeping. Returned garments in good condition go back into the reserve and reduce what the next order has to cover; garments that walk out of the building quietly are simply a cost the programme absorbs every time somebody moves on. For a small office that difference is a few pieces a year, and for a large one it is the reason the reserve is always empty.
