MIAMI — EVI Industries, Inc. recently announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Miami, Florida-based Sudsies, Inc. and established its new consumer garment care services division, with Sudsies serving as its foundational business.
EVI’s entry into the consumer garment care services industry marks its first dedicated expansion beyond the commercial laundry distribution and service industry since it began executing its long-term growth strategy in 2016. The new division, the company says, extends a model EVI has developed over the past decade: partnering with founder-led businesses, preserving the brands, cultures, and legacies that made them successful, empowering their leaders to continue building, and providing the resources and long-term ownership to pursue opportunities that may not have been available to them independently.
“Founded in Miami in 1996 by Jason Loeb and Jorge Baboun,” EVI says in its announcement, “Sudsies is South Florida’s premier garment care business, trusted by a deep and loyal base of individual consumers and luxury retail partners with the care of high-value, technically complex garments. Consistent with EVI’s operating philosophy, Sudsies continues to operate under its established brand and to be led by its founders, Loeb and Baboun, and its president, Luis Moreno.”
“Sudsies is the first step in what we believe can become an exceptional consumer garment care enterprise of national scale,” says EVI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Henry M. Nahmad. “We believe that the addition of Sudsies to the EVI family gives us a strong foundation of experienced leadership, deep garment care expertise, exceptional customer relationships, operating know-how and a highly regarded brand.”
Since 2016, 32 commercial laundry businesses and the entrepreneurs who built them have joined EVI. Over that period, EVI has grown from a single Miami-based distributor with approximately $36 million of annual revenue, the company says, into North America’s leading commercial laundry distribution and service enterprise, with more than 900 associates and nearly $435 million of revenue for the twelve months ended March 31, 2026.
“Our ambition is to become the partner of choice for the finest entrepreneurs in the industry,” Nahmad says, “owners who have built exceptional businesses and care deeply about their companies, their people, their customers, and their legacies. We expect that Sudsies is just the beginning, and we are excited about what we can build together.”
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