Superior Group of Companies, Inc. (SGC)
Offshore contact centers with uniform and promotional businesses. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 3, 2026. Ranked 1 of the 184 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
37%
End of 2028
49%
Employees, annual report
6,520
Leading staffing pattern
Business Support Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now37%
- End of 202746%
- End of 202849%
- End of 203049%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 51%
- Becomes checking a model's work 33%
- Handed over with lighter checks 15%
Superior Group’s 6,520 employees, 89% abroad, are mostly its 3,900 contact center employees, with the uniform, healthcare apparel and branded products businesses read by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 37% now, 46% at the end of 2027, 49% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 24% people work and 26% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 51% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 33% becomes checking a model's work and 15% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
6,520 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 720 of 6,520 employees are in the U.S. and about 5,800 in foreign countries, by the filing.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately 6,520 employees worldwide, of which all were full-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Business Support Services | 60% | By (a): the Contact Centers segment has the largest labor force at approximately 3,900 employees, call center work abroad, 60% of the 6,520. |
| Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing | 25% | By description (c): the uniform and healthcare apparel businesses, the SIC 2300 apparel work, with most of the remaining employees abroad; no count for the segment. |
| Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only) | 15% | By description (c): the branded products business, promotional products sourced and sold to corporate customers, read at miscellaneous durable goods wholesaling. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 6,520 employees, all full-time, about 720 in the U.S. and 5,800 abroad; the Contact Centers segment about 3,900; no union counts.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Business Support Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Concentrix Corporation (CNXC, 455,000 employees)44% now, 60% by 2028
- Genpact Limited (G, 146,500 employees)36% now, 63% by 2028
- TaskUs, Inc. (TASK, 65,500 employees)47% now, 59% by 2028
- ExlService Holdings, Inc. (EXLS, 65,000 employees)37% now, 63% by 2028
- Conduent Incorporated (CNDT, 51,000 employees)47% now, 59% by 2028
- TTEC Holdings, Inc. (TTEC, 51,000 employees)47% now, 59% by 2028
- Maximus, Inc. (MMS, 37,200 employees)46% now, 59% by 2028
- IBEX Limited (IBEX, 35,000 employees)47% now, 59% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI once: competitors that use AI and chatbots.
- “We also compete with companies that utilize emerging technologies and assets, such as artificial intelligence and chatbots.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 6,520 | 2026-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,100 | 2025-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,800 | 2024-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,600 | 2023-03-20 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,000 | 2022-03-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,600 | 2021-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 3,400 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,877 | 2019-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 2,237 | 2018-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 1,620 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 1,268 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 1,055 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 973 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 690 | 2013-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 647 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 630 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 564 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 534 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 623 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 696 | 2007-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 722 | 2006-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 887 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 897 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 1,042 | 2003-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 1,243 | 2002-03-22 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 1,700 | 2001-03-23 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 1,700 | 2000-03-24 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 1,800 | 1999-03-25 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 1,700 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 1,900 | 1997-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 1,900 | 1996-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | not read | 1995-03-24 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Only the contact centers are counted; the apparel and branded products split is by description from a short human capital section.
- The segment revenue table is fiscal 2019 and was not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-006653, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Superior Group of Companies, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 37% now and 49% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Superior Group of Companies, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Superior Group of Companies, Inc. employ?
- 6,520 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 11% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Superior Group of Companies, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Business Support Services; by those patterns the work is about 49% desk work, 24% people work and 26% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Superior Group of Companies, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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