Building the Future Together at the Blulabs Summit
Blulabs recently hosted its company Summit in Austin, Texas, bringing together leadership, cross-functional teams, and key partners for several days of strategic planning, workshops, and shared decision-making. The Summit has become the moment each year when the work of running the business pauses long enough to define what the business will look like one, three, and five years out.
A Working Summit
This is not a retreat. It’s a working session.
Mornings opened with leadership presentations on category performance, supply chain expansion, and the forward product roadmap. Afternoons broke into focused workshops: procurement and operations aligning on nearshore manufacturing investments, commercial and product teams reviewing customer roadmaps, finance and operations stress-testing growth scenarios across each business unit.
The result is a level of clarity that’s difficult to reach over a screen. Every department in the same room, working through the same trade-offs, and leaving with a shared plan.
Outside Perspectives in the Room
We’re a stronger company when we hear from leaders outside our own walls. This year’s Summit featured keynote sessions from two of them.
A leader from TRX Fitness spoke on building high-performance cultures and the discipline required to scale a brand without losing what makes it distinct. A senior executive from BradyPLUS, one of the most respected distribution partners across the markets we serve, shared a candid view of where the jan/san and food service categories are heading and what enterprise buyers are prioritizing right now.
Both sessions carried directly into the workshops that followed. Outside voices sharpen internal thinking, and these were two of the sharpest we could have brought into the room.
Anchored in Long-Term Relationships
Blulabs is a second-generation, family-led business, founded by Chairman Marc Garson and now led day-to-day by his three sons alongside a team of institutional executives. That continuity shapes how we operate. Decisions are made with the next decade in mind, not the next quarter. Partnerships are treated as long-term commitments, not transactions.
That mindset was visible throughout the week. Several of our largest distribution and manufacturing partners joined sessions, contributing directly to capacity planning, category strategy, and product development discussions. The willingness of partners to engage at that level reflects the relationships we’ve worked to build, and the relationships we expect to keep building.
Momentum Across the Business
The Summit was also a chance to take stock. Over the last several years, Blulabs has:
Expanded manufacturing operations across 10 countries and four continents
Grown to support 20+ Fortune 500 private label programs
Become the largest volume importer of disposable gloves to the U.S. jan/san sector, moving over 100 containers per month
Secured exclusive multi-year supply contracts across commercial aviation, including Delta, American, JetBlue, Alaska, and a recently awarded three-year universal supply contract with United
Built a library of more than 15 patents across plastic-free, compostable, and recyclable product innovations
The growth has been intentional, built on operational excellence, disciplined investment, and a clear thesis about where each of our verticals is heading.
Investing in People
Underneath the strategy work, the Summit is fundamentally about people. The teams responsible for executing on these plans (procurement, supply chain, commercial, product, operations, finance) were the center of every session. Time was deliberately built in for cross-functional relationships to form: the kind of working trust that doesn’t show up on an org chart but shows up in every project that moves quickly.
Evenings carried that same intent. Austin gave us the right backdrop, with shared dinners and live experiences across the city that made it easy for teams who don’t usually sit next to each other to spend real time together. The conversations that happen between formal sessions are often where the most durable working relationships are formed.
For anyone considering a future at Blulabs, this is the part of the culture worth understanding. The company is growing, the work is serious, and the people are given real ownership of meaningful problems.
What’s Next
The Summit closed with alignment on a defined set of strategic priorities: continued investment in nearshore manufacturing capacity, deeper expansion in the airline category, accelerated product development in sustainable materials, and ongoing discipline on the operational fundamentals that have driven the growth so far.
We left more aligned, more energized, and more focused on the direction ahead. To our teams, our partners, and the customers who trust us to deliver: thank you for being part of what we’re building.
