Custom apparel printing business with screen printing and embroidery

Commercial printing for sale in Denver Metro

Asking price

$311,000

Revenue

$249,576

Cash flow

$114,374

About this business

Company Overview: This is a custom apparel producer established in 1989 with a long operating history under current ownership for over a decade. The company focuses on screen printing for organizations across a broad metropolitan region and surrounding areas. It serves utilities, municipalities and public safety, schools and teams, breweries, churches, museums, and other local groups. The business is relocatable and operates from a small, efficient footprint.

Product & Customer Base: Core services center on screen printing, complemented by limited embroidery and transfer work. The company also sells proprietary, trademarked outdoor-themed designs to select retail shops, creating a distinct, though modest, product line. Customers typically engage for event wear, uniforms, spirit wear, and branded merchandise. The active base exceeds several dozen accounts, with many ordering multiple times per year and very low reported churn. A handful of larger accounts represent a meaningful but not overwhelming share of revenue.

Operations & Team: The company runs a straightforward intake-to-fulfillment workflow. Orders come in via referral and online discovery. Prepress involves art review, resolution checks, and vector conversion as needed. The shop sources garments, prepares screens, registers, and runs production, followed by quality checks, folding, packing, and delivery or pickup by appointment. A Shopify-based storefront capability creates branded microsites for organizations, centralizing ordering and payment, batching production, and improving per-piece margins. Two owner-operators handle the operation: one leads customer communications, quoting, billing, deliveries, and graphics; the other manages press operations, ink mixing, registration, printing, cleanup, and pack-out. Occasional family help supports large runs. Standard terms are net-30 on both receivables and payables. No special licenses are required beyond standard business registration. Basic computer graphics and teachable shop skills are key.

Growth: The business has grown steadily under current ownership without paid marketing, driven by word of mouth and reliable service. The storefront model has improved margins and simplified client logistics, supporting repeat work and smoother batching. Additional upside is available through simple, targeted outreach to schools and local organizations to expand storefront programs; adding a trained press operator to lift capacity and reduce owner bottlenecks; light marketing to complement referrals; and expanding placements for proprietary designs. The service mix is stable, and order cadence benefits from institutional and recurring community customers.

Transition: The owners are selling to align with retirement timing and to create flexibility for extended travel. They are committed to a smooth handover and are open to an extended transition, with approximately six months viewed as reasonable. Support will include training on screen operations and graphics workflow, transfer of artwork files and specifications, and coordinated client communications to ensure continuity of quality and service standards.