Specialties
Walk into any of our brick-and-mortar stores and you'll see the same thing. The stores are filled wall to wall with merchandise, personally chosen to cater to your creative projects. You will also find a warm, inviting staff of sewing specialists, who are ready to answer your questions and help you with your projects. We carry a broad selection of specifically-chosen Sewing Machines, Embroidery Machines, Quilting Machines, Vacuums, Fabric and Accessories. If on-line shopping is what you prefer, we offer a very comprehensive website that hosts over 15,000 products to serve your needs. Both in our retail stores and on-line, we strive to be your all-in-one shop for anyone from the novice seamstress to the veteran designer.
History
Established in 1976.
Our company has spent four decades focused on one thing above all others, unparalleled customer service. Our owners, John and Annette Douthat, were very careful when they chose our name, AllBrands.com. They wanted it to reflect the products that we carry. We go out of our way to fulfill your needs by offering all brands of Floor Care, Garment Care, Sewing Machines and Sewing Related products. We partner with many different manufacturers and offer many different brands of products. Our corporate office is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We operate six retail stores, five in Louisiana and one in Houston, Texas. Our Louisiana stores are located in Slidell, Metairie, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Lake Charles. John had a philosophy from the beginning and it still holds true today. We are a buying agent for our customers, and not just a selling agent for the manufacturers we represent. To do this, we follow the trends in sewing products, and we carefully choose the correct merchandise an
Meet the Business Owner: John M.
John M. and Annette Douthat, the passionate marital team behind our brand, have been in the sewing business since the mid-70s. Together, they have spent almost forty years cultivating AllBrands as their pride and joy, setting an example for competitors everywhere on how to properly offer superior customer service and unbeatable satisfaction. Still active within the company today, John is a regular at our weekly meetings, as vibrant and passionate as ever before. A walking encyclopedia of sewing machines and repairs, he can be regularly found bouncing ideas off of his tailor-picked staff through email, discussing business propositions with vendors and salesmen, and attending conventions.
Back in 1995, it was the suggestion of their preadolescent son, John F., that prompted the senior John to consider a website. At the time, the Internet was just pulling itself out of its infancy,