Business View Magazine | April 2020

144 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2020 AT A GLANCE ARROW LINEN SUPPLY COMPANY WHAT: A leading linen supplier WHERE: Brooklyn and Garden City, NY WEBSITE: www.arrowlinen.com Arrow Linen Supply Company Family-owned for four generations A rrow Linen Supply Company, Inc. is a leading linen supplier servicing all types of industries, including Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Beauty & Massage, Physician Offices, Schools & Camps, Corporate & Office, and Industrial, throughout the five Boroughs of New York City, plus Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties, as well as New Jersey. The company offers its customers clean and sanitary uniforms, aprons, towels, table cloths and napkins, walk off mats, and bedding. Arrow Linen Supply was established in Brooklyn, NY in 1947, by Ambrogio Magliocco, who came to the U.S. from Sicily at the age of 17. In 1958, Ambrogio’s son, John Ambrose Magliocco, took over the company and remains active in the business to this day as CEO, even at age 89, coming in at 9AM, six days a week. John Magliocco, John Ambrose’s son, joined the company in 1985, after graduating from college with a degree in engineering. “My father had passed the bar as a lawyer and then got drafted into the army,” he recounts. “When he came out, my grandfather, who started the business with my uncle, needed help. He said he’d help for six months before opening a law practice and ended up making a career out of it. Then