AVIVA WHOLESALE INC

Aviva Wholesale Inc. is a family-run textile distributor that supplies heat transfer vinyls and blank imprintable apparel, including round neck plain t-shirts, baseball shirts and hoodies, at wholesale. Its catalogue also covers sweatshirts, raglan shirts, joggers, baseball caps, heat press machines and vinyl cutting machines or plotters, with brands such as Gildan, Bella Canvas, Laviva Sports, LAT Apparel, Next Level, Silhouette and Mimaki. Blank garments, vinyl and pressing equipment together make up the core inputs of small-scale custom apparel decoration, so a single supplier stocking all three lets a decorator source materials and tools in one place.

In business since 2000, the company both distributes and manufactures textile goods, drawing on more than 10 plants at home and abroad. It sources goods from factories in countries including Pakistan, China, India, Bangladesh, Turkey and Egypt, and draws merchandise from a partner factory in Qingdao, China. These overseas connections give it scope for product development and control of manufacturing, which for a wholesaler can mean more say over specifications, quality and cost than buying through intermediaries alone.

Aviva Wholesale sells online and through a retail store in Houston, and orders placed before noon on weekdays ship the same day. Its customers include custom t-shirt businesses, flea marketers, eBay sellers, e-commerce stores, dollar store retailers, convenience stores, gift shops, military surplus stores and private individuals. This customer base mixes decorators who customise blank garments with general retailers that resell finished goods, and for both groups, per-unit cost on bulk orders is usually a central concern.