Annual sales of $120,000,000
Less than 8,000,000 shares outstanding
Market cap of $5,000,000
Business: Katy Inds, (KATY) Katy Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes commercial cleaning supplies and storage products for sanitary maintenance, foodservice, mass merchant retail, and home improvement markets in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company offers commercial waste receptacles, buckets, mop wringers, and janitorial carts, under the Continental, Kleen Aire, Huskee, SuperKan, KingKan, Unibody, and Tilt-N-Wheel brands; and plastic home storage products, including domestic storage containers, and shelving and hard plastic gun cases under the Contico and Tuffbin brands. It also provides industrial storage drums and pails under the Contico and Contico Container brands; filtration, cleaning, and specialty products, such as fryer filters, oil stabilizing powders, grill cleaning implements, and other food service items under the Disco, BriteSorb, and Brillo brands; and resin fiber disks and other coated abrasives under the Trim-Kut brand. In addition, the company offers non-woven abrasive products, such as floor maintenance pads, hand pads, scouring pads, cleaning and finishing abrasives, and roof ventilation products under the Glit, Kleenfast, Glit/Microtron, Fiber Naturals, Big Boss II, Blue Ice, Brillo, BAB-O, Old Dutch, and Twister brands; and supplies materials to various original equipment manufacturers. Further, it provides cleaning products, including mops, brooms, brushes, and plastic cleaning accessories under the Wilen, Wax-o-matic, and Rototech brands. The company sells its cleaning products to janitorial/sanitary and foodservice distributors that supply end users, such as restaurants, hotels, healthcare facilities, and schools; and storage products through home improvement and mass market retail outlets. Katy Industries markets its products through direct sales personnel, manufacturers’ sales representatives, and wholesale distributors. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in Arlington, Virginia with an additional office in Bridgeton, Missouri.
