Vantage Apparel (asi/93390), the Top 40 supplier and award-winning apparel decorator headquartered in Avenel, NJ, has joined Cutter & Buck’s (asi/47965) ShareShip program.

The move will give distributors access to Vantage’s contract decoration services with free inbound freight to any of its three facilities: Vantage East in New Jersey, Vantage Central in Missouri and Vantage West in California.

Vantage, which has won the decorated apparel category of the ASI Distributor Choice Awards for the last 13 years, now offers free inbound freight from four Top 40 suppliers: SanMar (asi/84863), alphabroder (asi/34063), S&S Activewear (asi/84358) and now Cutter & Buck.

“Our partnership as a preferred, strategic decorator with these exceptional apparel suppliers allows distributors to use Vantage as their single source for contract apparel decoration – with access to all the major brands … all under one roof,” said Rob Watson, chief experience officer at Vantage, in a press release.

He added that the rise in e-commerce, fulfillment and drop-ship programs means it’s more important than ever for customers to adopt a multi-vendor, single-decorator approach to saved both time and effort.

The ShareShip program allows Cutter & Buck customers to order apparel online and have it shipped free to Vantage. This way, distributors not only get shipping benefits, but also get award-winning apparel decoration service. Customers can add Vantage Apparel to their ShareShip account by emailing shareship@cutterbuck.com and requesting which Vantage facilities they’d like to add: East, Central, West or all. When ordering online from cutterbuck.com, orders will be shipped next day to the selected decoration facility.

With 2019 North American promotional product revenue of $52.2 million, Vantage Apparel ranks 34th on Counselor’s most recent list of the top suppliers in the industry. The supplier operates more than 1,200 embroidery heads across its three facilities.