Imperial Brady
The Firm
The record is the argument here. Among the purchases below are a Rochester distributor operating since 1936, a Milwaukee one since 1964, a Georgia business held by one family since 1979, a fourth-generation Mid-Atlantic house roughly a hundred and twenty years old, and a western Canadian distributor founded in 1973. One of the releases numbers the deal as the ninety-sixth under current ownership.
What it does not publish is any invitation. The 2026 merger moved the whole site to a new domain and the sell-your-business page did not survive the move, so what remains is a news index with dated purchases and nowhere for an owner to start the conversation. There are no criteria, no size band and no statement about what happens to a seller afterwards.
For a reader of the jan-san guide the useful reading is not that this firm might buy them. It is that the businesses it buys are the businesses they are shopping for, which is a fair warning about how contested that market is.
Read again in September 2026: the merger with BradyPLUS closed in March 2026 and the unified name launched in May, with nothing bought since Enterprise Paper. The newsroom holds only two years, so the ninety-odd earlier purchases the releases count are not on it, and the other half's own pre-merger purchase is a row here.
What It Buys
Jersey City, New Jersey. A janitorial and packaging distributor formed in 2026 from two rival consolidators, and still buying single-branch family houses in the trade.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
7 deals traced to announcements by Imperial Brady, 2024 to 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Enterprise Paper Holdings · June 15, 2026
A paper, packaging and janitorial distributor founded in 1973, with locations across British Columbia and Alberta.
- Biloxi Paper Company (by BradyPLUS, before the merger) · June 9, 2025
A Biloxi, Mississippi janitorial and foodservice supply distributor, bought by the merger's other half before it closed.
- Athens Janitor Supply and Chittom Industries · February 24, 2025
A janitorial supply business held by one family since 1979, with three Georgia locations in Athens, Rome and Augusta.
- S. Freedman & Sons · January 14, 2025
A fourth-generation distributor of foodservice packaging and janitorial supplies across the Mid-Atlantic, about 120 years old.
- San-A-Care · November 19, 2024
A janitorial and sanitation distributor serving Waukesha and greater Milwaukee since 1964.
- Economy Products & Solutions · November 12, 2024
A greater Rochester distributor of janitorial and packaging supplies, operating since 1936.
- California Janitorial Supply Corp. · November 4, 2024
A San Jose janitorial supply distributor, the ninety-third purchase under the Tillis family's leadership.
In Its Trades
Trades it buys
The other confirmed bidders
No second firm is confirmed in this trade from a primary source. That is the edge of the evidence rather than proof the field is clear, and a firm can be consolidating a trade for years before it says so anywhere we can cite.