

The 18-year-old company, headed by industry veteran Ram Sareen, has built a devoted following among designers, manufacturers, and distributors worldwide, having sold some 19,000 systems and replacing over 5,000 competing systems in the process. Tukatech, a name well known and respected throughout the apparel industry, is the leading provider of fashion software and hardware technology solutions. “While our installation process is still continuing, we have already seen our pattern makers more than double the number of patterns they can produce in one day.”

“Tukatech’s staff members were very cooperative during the installation process, and provided overall guidance and suggestions for our cutting room,” said Dinesh Virwani, Group Managing Director. “We really wouldn’t be here without Tukatech,” he says. “We will not go against our DNA that way.” And Lohman credits one other key component for Groceries’ achievements. “We’d rather go out of business than manufacture nonorganic shirts and manufacture overseas,” Lohman says. What accounts for it? To begin with, a strong corporate vision combined with a healthy dose of stubbornness. In other words, Groceries is a rousing success. The company is doubling its size every nine months. In addition to its own label, Groceries also sells volume private-label blanks to big names such as Paul Mitchell and Pearl Jam.

Groceries boasts annual sales in the seven figures, a 33,000-square-foot manufacturing facility downtown at the corner of Alameda and 7th, and 64 full-time employees.
