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We started with conveyors and kept on
rolling. For over 25 years, FORTE has
provided our customers growth-enabled
supply chain solutions.

The FORTE Way
We like to call it the “The FORTE Way". It's the hands-on approach FORTE associates take toward helping our clients grow. Beginning in 1980 as a material handling equipment vendor, we've taken a practical approach to innovating our company and our clients' distribution operations. A company of firsts, we continue to lead the industry; many of today's equipment, design standards and industry patents were precedented by FORTE.

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Best-in-class solutions from an award-winning company.

FORTE has twice been recognized as one of “100 Great Supply Chain Partners” by Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies.

Inc. 500 has commended FORTE on two occasions as one of “America’s Fastest Growing Privately-Held Companies”, the first company in the field of distribution automation.

True to our heart and ultimately our mission are our clients’ project awards, where our client partners have been recognized for operational excellence. Learn more.

What results from best-in-class solutions?
Best-in-class clientele.

We have a national client base of Fortune 500 organizations and fast-growing, small and mid-market entrepreneurial enterprises. We’re proud of the company we keep and welcome the opportunity to help you meet your operational objectives. Below is a representative list of our customers, all leaders within their respective industries.

3PL/3PF

Custom Marketing 
  Services

Exel Logistics

Home/Gift

Calphalon
Delta® Faucet
Fingerhut
Home Interiors
KitchenAid
Lancaster Colony
Lenox®
Nambé
Oneida
Red Envelope®
Whirlpool
World Kitchen

Consumer Packaged
Goods

Beiersdorf®
Dole
Godiva Chocolatiers
Jim Beam
J.M. Smucker
Lindt & Sprüngli
McCormick
PepsiCo
Procter & Gamble
Office Supply

Parts Now!
Sanford
S.P. Richards

Technology/Electronics

Brightpoint
IBM

Recreational/Sporting Goods

Big Rock Sports
Camping World
Gopher Sport
Little Tykes
Road Runner Sports
Spyder
Sweetwater Sound

Medical/Surgical/
Pharmaceutical

Bayer
Beiersdorf
Brasseler USA
C.R. Bard
Dade Behring
Medrad
Omnicare
Prasco
Ross Labs
Smith & Nephew
Stericycle
Sybron Dental Services
Wyeth

Hardware/Industrial Supply

Baldwin Filters
Bryan Equipment
Copeland
Delta Faucet
Floturn
Leviton
Newell Rubbermaid™
Oatey
Rain Bird

Retail

Crate and Barrel
Dillard’s
J.C. Penney
Sears

Direct Selling

Home Interiors
Southern Living At HOME®
Taste of Home Entertaining

Apparel/Shoes/
Accessories

Augusta Sportswear
Carhartt
Christopher & Banks
Cintas
HOBO International
Holloway Sportswear
Keen Footwear
Michael Kors
Polo Ralph Lauren
REEF
Schwartz & Benjamin
Spyder
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Vera Bradley