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Top 16 Specialty apparel distributors based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 48 specialty apparel distributors headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,019 professional contacts across them, including 394 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers specialty apparel distributors headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 18, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 16 largest specialty apparel distributors based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fashion UK is Europe's largest licensed apparel and accessories suppliers to high street and online fashion retailers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ralawise - The ultimate one-stop-shop clothing distributor!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re one of the UK’s leading B2B wholesale clothing and accessory distributors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 35 years, BTC Activewear has stood at the forefront of the wholesale apparel industry, setting the benchmark for quality products and service levels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Prestige Leisure where we are committed to providing exceptional service to our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Absolute Apparel is a leading distributor and importer of promotional garments, retail ready merchandise and high quality workwear.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Offering a new approach to ‘never out of stock’ programmes on apparel, backed by an in-house print on demand and drop ship facility this means that any retailer has full…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “T&F Apparel Ltd is a established fashion supplier specializing in the design and manufacture of branded merchandise apparel and accessories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are design and sales specialists based in the UK, with our manufacturing base in China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Advance Apparel is a London-based B2B apparel wholesaler which specializes in a variety of divisions, such as, Promotional Wear, Corporate Wear, Licensed Merchandise as well as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bienvenue chez Ralawise, l’entreprise familiale qui vous offre le plus grand choix au monde!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1991 by partners Keith Clarke and Gill Clarke, Starlite is one of the leading wholesale dancewear suppliers in Europe for dance companies, schools and retailers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We stock an extensive and varied range of fabrics which run into hundreds of types and qualities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TE Sportswear leading the way in Custom Sports, Gym, Activewear.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Made to order, uniquely personal fashion” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: specialty apparel distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names specialty apparel distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialty apparel distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialty apparel distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Specialty apparel distributors based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 18, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 48 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among specialty apparel distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “specialty apparel distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names specialty apparel distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among specialty apparel distributors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 394 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 18, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names specialty apparel distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many specialty apparel distributors are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 48 specialty apparel distributors headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Fashion UK, headquartered in Leicester, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most specialty apparel distributors?
London leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Leicester (4) and Deeside (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 394 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 48 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 18, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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