KINCO, LLC
PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA

Kinco is a second generation family owned company which manufactures and sells quality lined, unlined, cut resistant, coated, and disposable gloves. Our team is a dedicated, hard working, and passionate group that strives to not only to maintain quality and innovation in our gloves, but also to provide the best possible customer experience. We are extremely proud of the products we present to you. Every item is carefully designed to ensure the right grade of leather or weight of fabric is used. We take pride in accurate and generous sizing and that the proper features are included for each type of glove we carry. As a result, we predominantly use a more expensive keystone thumb design because we know it offers greater ergonomic hand comfort and longer wear! , strategically poised near both the Portland International Airport and I-84 near the Columbia River shipping corridor. We are able to ship and receive all major carrier services, FOB pick-up and delivery, as well as freight sized cargo. Our building is over 60,000 square feet and features the most technologically advanced conveyor and computer systems to make our all of our internal teams the utmost of efficient. We are located in the beautiful metro area of Portland, Oregon: the home of the Portland Trail Blazers, Portland Timbers, Portland Thorns, Portland Winterhawks, Oregon Zoo, Portland Rose Garden, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland Japanese Garden and Powell’s City of Books. Our town is a proudly outdoors-oriented Pacific Northwest city (yes, even with all of the rain) with quick access to Mt. Hood, the Pacific Ocean, skiing, hiking, lakes, rivers, the beautiful Columbia Gorge, and the scenic Willamette Valley. In addition, our city frequently hosts waterfront festivals, concerts, and endless entertainment. At age 26 in 1975, Bruce Kindler realized a demand for quality welding gloves. He borrowed $4,000 from his mother, $5000 from his mother’s friend and created Kinco International by selling gloves to welding supply stores on the west coast. Bruce was able to pay back both loans within four years, shortly before he was joined part time by his wife, Sherie. Although in the beginning his resources were limited, his ideas, ambition, and perseverance were unbound and he was bound for success. He quickly established close lifetime relationships with Asian manufacturers and immersed himself into their culture. He was forced to become proficient at selling, sourcing, shipping, US customs issues, glove designing, intellectual property issues, marketing, vacuuming the office, and sweeping the warehouse, along with everything else involved in running an international business. Over the years, Kinco’s sales, product line, customers, employees, warehouse, and office have all continued to grow at a rapid rate because of the same values that Bruce created in the foundation of Kinco. Bruce and Sherie’s son, Travis, has always been involved in the family business. Learning from his dad by spending time both at home and at the office surrounded by gloves at a young age, Kinco runs through Travis’ veins. He began hang-tagging gloves at the age of ten and by twenty-one and a senior in college, he was interning with Kinco. After graduation, he began working with Bruce full-time and purchased the company from his parents in 2003. Over the last eleven years, Travis has expanded the business from solely industrial sales to having a significant presence in the retail arena with a national sales force. This has involved considerable innovation within the company including increasing efficiencies in purchasing and managing inventory, the development of retail oriented products and packaging, and creating more extensive quality control and regulation of production overseas. This is just the beginning for Travis, as he carries the same drive and ambition for Kinco that his dad bestowed on it all those years ago. With the continued goal of improvement and expansion, here’s to many more years to come! Kinco believes that maintaining quality products is our highest priority in the manufacturing process. With this goal as a constant, we take measures to separate our products based on the unique and proprietary designs, materials, and technologies that we have created. These are a few of the brands that Kinco has trademarked and/or registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On a daily basis, Kinco pushes itself to deliver the highest quality of product and the best value to its customers. In order to do this successfully, Kinco not only relies on its employees to follow the company’s core values, but also for both its manufacturers and customers to carry out the same strong integrity – whether it’s deciding on where to buy raw material or where Kinco’s products are being sold. It is essential to Kinco that every business relationship throughout the spectrum of its business is a mutual beneficial partnership where all parties have a clear understanding of what Kinco represents. Kinco realizes the importance of constant open communication to achieve this transparency. Kinco’s purchasing team in Portland frequently travels to visit its employees and manufacturers overseas where they ensure good ethics are being followed, production is meeting deadlines, consistency and high quality standards are met and to essentially build valuable relationships, some of which have flourished for over 30 years. Similarly, Kinco sales team throughout the United States is continuously connected with its headquarters in Portland to ensure the company’s standards and goals are being accurately portrayed and shared with our customers. As a US based second-generation family run company, Kinco has a strong commitment to treating its employees, manufacturers, and customers as our extended family and stands behind them 100%. Doing our part to keep Oregon Green! Kinco recently adopted a stretch of road along South Century Drive near Mt. Bachelor or Forest Service Road 45, between the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway and Sunriver.