Jacy Henderson, vice president of Triple D Uniform & Linen Inc., Houston, says his team recently has shifted focus in line with economic growth in Texas’s largest city (2.39 million/2025). He cites factors ranging from an influx of new high-end restaurants to laundry consolidation. Today, fewer independents are pursuing either the F&B or industrial-uniform sectors. That’s created opportunities for Triple D.

“We’ve made a big switch,” Henderson says. “I don’t know exactly when it happened. But we made a strong play during the Admiral/Alsco (Uniforms) acquisition (April 2015). I remember saying, ‘You know what? This is our opportunity to get into the ...