Employee Uniform Programs
Employee Uniform Programs, Run Through Your Own Company Store
Employee uniform programs should not run on spreadsheets and hope. BLP builds yours inside an online company store we manage, backed by our own Garland warehouse.
$600M – PeerNet Buying Power
27 Years in DFW
99.8% Pick Accuracyg
25,000 sq ft Garland Fulfillment Center
Workwear and apparel brands your employees already trust.
WHY BLP IS DIFFERENT
Five locations, three apparel vendors, and no two logos are the same shade of blue. That is usually the moment a company starts shopping for a uniform program.
Not because anyone wakes up wanting one, but because the brand out in the field has quietly stopped matching the brand on the wall. Bob Lilly Promotions (BLP) fixes that with a uniform program built inside an online company store we run for you: one approved catalog, ordering rules by role and location, and every in-stock order shipped from our own fulfillment center. It is the managed alternative to catalog vendors who stop at the order and rental services that lease you someone else’s garments.
Your Rules
Employees see only what they are approved to order: the right garments, colors, and decoration, matched to role and location. Front-of-house sees polos and aprons. Field crews see rated safety apparel. Nobody sees the off-brand teal that started this whole conversation.
A store built for uniforms, not retrofitted for them.
BLP builds and administers your store on SellersCommerce, our multi-year platform partner, whose Uniform Program Management product was made for the hard parts: employee rosters, role-based catalogs, allowances, approvals, and multi-location rules.
Fulfilled from our warehouse. Not a third party’s.
Every in-stock order is picked in BLP’s 25,000 sq ft Garland fulfillment center at 99.8% accuracy, part of the 100,000+ packages we ship each year. When your store promises an employee a uniform, our warehouse keeps that promise. No handoffs, no finger-pointing.
What’s included
“Managed” means someone besides your HR or Marketing team owns the details
Four jobs BLP takes off your plate, from the first new-hire kit to the reorder three years later.
A curated catalog by
role and location
Approved items only. Nothing else gets in.
Employees see only what they are approved to order: the right garments, the right colors, brand-compliant decoration, matched to role and location. Front-of-house sees polos and aprons. Field crews see rated safety apparel. Behind the catalog sits real sourcing depth through the PeerNet Group and its $600M in collective buying power.
- Role-based and location-based catalogs
- Brand-compliant decoration on every item
- Apparel sourced through PeerNet’s top 60 suppliers
- Catalog evolves as roles and seasons change
Sizing, exchanges, and
new-hire ordering
Kits ship before day one.
New hires get a store login, or a manager can order on their behalf, and their kit ships before their first shift. Wrong size? The exchange runs through the store, not through a spreadsheet on someone’s desktop.
- Employee logins or manager-placed orders
- Sizes chosen from each garment’s size chart
- Exchanges handled inside the store
- HR stops playing middleman with an apparel vendor
Budgets, allowances, and ordering rules
Set the rules once. The store enforces them.
Give each employee a dollar or points allowance, define what renews each year, and route anything beyond the limit to a manager for approval. Leadership decides the policy; the store applies it to every order after that.
- Dollar or points allowances per employee
- Annual renewals you define
- Manager approvals beyond the limit
- Rules by role, by location, or both
Reorders, replacements, and reporting
Leadership sees everything. Nobody chases anything.
Replacements happen in the store without a phone call. On the back end, leadership sees what is ordered, by whom, at which location, and against which budget. Dead inventory stops piling up in a closet.
- Self-serve replacements and reorders
- Reporting by location, role, and budget
- Inventory held in Garland or produced on demand
- Every order picked at 99.8% accuracy
The numbers behind the program
27 years of programs, measured where it matters: at the pick line.
$600M
Collective buying power through PeerNet Group membership, giving BLP access to the 60 best supply chain partners in the promotional products industry.
99.8%
Pick accuracy rate across every order we fulfill, from a single onboarding kit to a 10,000-unit national program.
100,000+
Packages shipped annually from our own 25,000 sq ft fulfillment center in Garland, Texas. Not a third party. Ours.
27
Years serving DFW and national brands from Garland, Texas, since 1999.
500+
Brands served across healthcare, energy, sports, technology, food & beverage, law, and beyond, including American Airlines, and Atmos Energy.
Who it fits
Is a Uniform Program Right for You?
A uniform program earns its keep anywhere the brand walks around on people. Four kinds of companies get the most out of one.
Franchise & Multi-Location Brands
One brand standard, enforced automatically. Corporate controls the catalog, each operator orders inside the rules, and every location gets the same logo in the same colors.
Corporate Teams
Not every uniform looks like a uniform. Branded apparel for sales teams, events, and customer-facing staff runs through the same store, with the same budgets and approvals.
For procurement teams tracking supplier diversity, BLP has been WBENC certified since 2008.
Energy & Field Services
Safety apparel with the right ratings per role, replacement ordering straight from the field, and the reporting procurement asks for. See our energy work.
Healthcare Systems
Scrubs and apparel by department, role-based catalogs, and new-hire kits timed to orientation instead of arriving three weeks after it.
From the field, the frontline, or the front desk: one brand, one look.
27 years of extraordinary programs for extraordinary brands. Here’s a small sample of what we’ve built.
Seen enough to know we’re the right partner?
HOW IT WORKS
From vendor chaos to one store, in four steps
Most companies have never bought a uniform program before. Here is exactly what happens between our first call and your first shipped kit.
Discover & Scope
We ask before we build.
Locations, headcount, roles, and what employees actually wear versus what the handbook says. Most failed uniform programs skip this step and build the catalog around a supplier’s overstock instead of the people wearing it. So we start with your org chart, not a garment list. By the end of scoping, you know exactly what the catalog holds, who sees what, and what the rules are.
Configure & Build
You review it working before anyone orders from it.
BLP configures your company store: role-based catalogs, allowances, approval routing, and your employee roster, all set to the rules you approved in scoping. Then you walk through it live. Click around, place a test order, break things on purpose. Nothing launches until the store runs the program the way you scoped it.
Launch by Location
You approve it before we make it.
Launch on your timeline. New hires order their kits, managers get their approval queues, and the old vendor spreadsheets get retired. For multi-location brands, rollout can run in waves so each location comes online clean instead of everyone flooding in on day one.
Run It. Report It. Refine it.
When don’t stop when your store launches.
Inventory we hold and kits we build ship from our Garland fulfillment center at 99.8% pick accuracy, and the program keeps running without anyone at your company chasing it. Leadership gets reporting by location, role, and budget. The catalog evolves as roles and seasons change, and when something needs fixing, you call the same team that built it.
Uniform program vs. uniform rental: which do you need?
| Uniform Rental | Owned Program (BLP) | |
|---|---|---|
| The Garment | Leased, returned when employees leave | Yours, and employees keep what they are issued |
| Laundering | Included, on the provider’s route schedule | Employees launder their own |
| What You Pay For | Weekly route and service fees, plus loss charges | Garments and decoration, no route fees |
| Branding | Their garment lineup, their decoration standards | Your catalog, your brand standards |
| How Ordering Works | Route driver and account rep | Online store, 24/7, governed by role and budget |
If you have been comparing BLP to Cintas, UniFirst, or Aramark, you are really comparing two different models, and each one fits a different problem.
Rental earns its keep when garments need industrial laundering: heavy soil, food processing, environments with strict hygiene codes. If that is your world, rent. For nearly everyone else, an owned program puts the money into garments instead of route fees, looks like your brand instead of your vendor’s, and gives employees a store instead of a delivery schedule.
Try before you commit
Show me how it works.
Tell us your locations, headcount, and roles, and we will scope the catalog and show you how the store would run it. Not pulled from a generic catalog. Not recycled from last year’s program. Built around your people, before a single dollar is spent.
The work doesn’t lie. Here’s what extraordinary looks like in practice.
Two programs. Two industries. One standard of excellence.
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Dickey’s BBQ: A Brand New Look for 500+ Locations
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit: 500+ locations and 5,000+ employees, unified under one cohesive brand identity, designed, produced, and delivered by BLP.
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Atmos Energy: 25 Years of Brand Consistency at Scale
Built for choice, speed, and brand consistency
Testimonials
Trusted by brands that demand excellence
Real results. Real relationships. Straight from the brands we’re proud to call partners.
“BLP is our go-to resource for all of our branded promotional products and premium incentives. They offer great creativity and help us navigate problem spots in the execution of our programs before they become problems!”
Hannah Fauveau
AdvoCare Senior Project Manager
“Bob Lilly Promotions was instrumental in helping launch our Touchdown Club initiative. It was a huge success, and I don’t think we would have gotten off the ground without the help and guidance from the BLP Team.”
Blake Bozman
Captain’s Dad Highland Park High School – 2025
“Bob Lilly Promotions did an amazing job of pulling together the engagement package for us. It really got the MBA Bootcamp off to a great start!”
Aaron Kastner
Dallas Cowboys Football Club Sponsorship Team
“The Bob Lilly Promotions Team is a fantastic partner. They executed perfectly for us on every aspect of our sponsorship promotions.”
Christina Juarez
Field Marketing Manager, Brown-Foreman
“BLP has been an excellent partner. We were excited to find a company that has the technical resources to integrate with our CRM and the operational capabilities to handle the entire process.”
Robert Rardin
Marketing Director
“Bob Lilly Promotions supported my startup energy company from beginning to end. They really had amazing insight into building our brand, logo and message and then translated that into a full marketing approach delivering web design, tradeshow marketing materials and collateral, promotional give-aways and one page leave behinds.”
John Varnell
Executive Vice President
“After two subpar promo vendors, Bob Lilly Promotions has been a breath of fresh air! Their superior quality with consideration to our startup budget has been a 10 in my book! Megan has been a huge help on product recommendations, logo enhancements and so much more! Cannot say enough great things, you won’t be disappointed.”
Maggie Harris
If you can imagine it, BLP can build it.
The catalog is a starting point, not a finish line. Tell us what your brand deserves and we’ll show you what’s possible when $600M in buying power, 25 years of enterprise execution, and a team that refuses to settle goes to work for you.
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Frequently asked questions about employee uniform programs
What is an employee uniform program?
An employee uniform program is a managed system for getting the right branded apparel to the right employees: an approved catalog, per-employee sizing and ordering, budgets or allowances, and fulfillment. At BLP, the program runs inside an online company store we build and operate, with orders shipped from our Garland, Texas fulfillment center at 99.8% pick accuracy.
How is a uniform program different from uniform rental?
In a rental program, you lease garments from a provider who launders and replaces them on a route schedule for recurring fees. In an owned uniform program, the garments are yours, employees order through a company store, and there is no laundering contract or route fee. Rental fits jobs that require industrial laundering. An owned program fits almost everything else.
What does a uniform program cost to manage?
Cost depends on catalog size, garment and decoration choices, how inventory is handled, and shipping volume. Most of the spend goes into the garments themselves rather than program overhead, and BLP scopes each program to your headcount and locations rather than quoting a flat fee. A 20-minute call is the fastest route to a real number.
How do employees order their sizes?
Employees log into the company store, see only the items approved for their role and location, and choose sizes from each garment’s size chart. Exchanges run through the same store. For teams without regular computer access, managers can place orders on employees’ behalf.
Can a uniform program and regular branded merch share one company store?
Yes, and that is one of the best reasons to run uniforms through a store instead of a catalog vendor. One store can carry a uniform section governed by roles, budgets, and approvals alongside a general merchandise section for gifts, events, and employee purchases. The same platform handles the holiday gift, the trade show polo, and the new-hire kit.
Do you handle multi-location and franchise rollouts?
Yes. BLP has run branded apparel across 500+ Dickey’s Barbecue Pit locations, and the store model is built for exactly that: central catalog control, local ordering, budgets per location, and reporting that shows corporate what every location ordered.