Forenta Acquires Garment Management Systems

(June, 2024) Forenta President Rusty Smith and Garment Management Systems (GMS) President Brett McLeod recently announced that Forenta has acquired GMS, the producer of the Quicksort assembly conveyor, the 24/7 Express conveyor and the QuickTag labeling system.

GMS’s operations in Little Rock will be relocated to Forenta’s 85,000 sq. ft. plant located in Morristown, TN. To ensure a smooth transition over the next few years, Forenta will retain the services of McLeod, who founded GMS, and some key GMS employees.

“The primary product we were interested in acquiring from GMS is a garment/conveyor/kiosk system that allows a drycleaning customer to pick up and drop off his or her clothes any time of the day or night by using the kiosk touchscreen,” Smith noted. “The kiosk controls the garment conveyor by bring the customer’s clothes in line with a window that only allows access to that particular conveyor slot. This is becoming very popular around the country, in particular, the larger cities which employ more professionals.”

The addition of the GMS product line will strengthen Forenta’s already diverse offering of pressing equipment, storage conveyors and water chillers.