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ACS Clothing[edit]
ACS (Advanced Clothing Solutions) is a Rental and Resale Fulfilment Centre based in the United Kingdom. ACS offer an end-to-end fulfilment service to a variety of retailers and emerging rental brands that includes order management, garment cleaning and sanitisation, textile care and repair, and third-party logistics. The company currently operates from a purpose-built, 85,000 sq. ft facility that has the capacity to store over 3 million items of stock.
History of ACS[edit]
1997-2013[edit]
ACS Clothing Ltd (previously Allied Clothing Services) was founded in 1997 as a menswear retailer and wholesaler that specialised in the rental of highland wear to the Scottish market. Over the years, ACS experienced growing success and moved to a 25,000 sq. ft. facility that was purpose-built to fulfil rental operations in 2004. By 2006, ACS had expanded their product offering to include men’s formal hire alongside their original highland wear range. Following this, ACS partnered with multi-channel retailers including Slaters, Debenhams, and Burton to offer a white-label menswear formal and highland hire service in high-street stores. In 2013, ACS expanded again and moved to a new 85,000 sq. ft. purpose-built facility in Eurocentral, Glasgow that has approx. 20,000 sq ft available for expansion.
2017-2019[edit]
In 2017, ACS began to service womenswear brand partners as the rental clothing market emerged in the UK. In 2018, ACS then expanded their partner portfolio again by onboarding babywear rental clothing brands into their operations. By 2020, ACS had partnered with My Wardrobe HQ, Hirestreet, Rotaro, Endless Wardrobe, Bundlee and Graceful Changes to offer an end-to-end rental fulfilment service.
2020-2021[edit]
By 2021, ACS entered a joint venture with US based fashion tech platform CaaSlte, to facilitate a rental subscription clothing service to the UK market. The first UK retailer to introduce this circular rental fashion solution was Moss Bros.
Sustainability[edit]
Sustainability is engrained throughout ACS internal operations as the company aims to reduce the carbon footprint of fashion by delivering an ecological, robust, low-cost, dependable, profitable services. Since 2019, ACS has reduced the energy and water usage in the garment cleaning process, re-engineered traditional cleaning practices to recycle the water and by-products and minimise the contaminants entering the water system, fitted the entire facility in Smart LED lighting, invested heavily in developing an inhouse SQA training centre to ensure textile repair skills are embedded and developed internally, redesigned the waste management system to ensure zero waste from ACS business goes to landfill, and developed a biodiversity bubble around our facility inclusive of bee hives, wildflowers and electric car charging points.
ACS is a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundations network of emerging innovators, and a signatory of Textiles 2030 and Sustainable Glasgow Green Economy Hub Charter.
VIBES award[edit]
In November 2019 ACS were presented with the VIBES Scotland award, which recognises businesses with strategic vision, people policies and management systems that enable them to improve their contribution to Scotland’s sustainable development.
SQA Centre[edit]
ACS have an in-house personal development SQA centre, which allows employees to gain national accredited qualifications in Warehousing, Textile Care, and Logistics.
External Links[edit]
https://www.acsclothing.co.uk/
Articles written about ACS[edit]
• https://www.scottish-enterprise.com/learning-zone/business-guides/components-folder/business-guides-listing/how-acs-clothing-created-a-culture-of-sustainability • https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18698507.rental-firm-netflix-clothing-enterprise/ • https://www.theindustry.fashion/moss-bros-and-lk-bennett-to-launch-subscription-rental-services-in-the-uk/ https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/19407615.scots-fashion-rental-resale-firm-secures-2-5m-new-equity/
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