LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — JVK Operations Ltd., now doing business as Lighthouse Linen, reports it has successfully emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization.
The Plan of Reorganization, confirmed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York on Jan. 12, became effective March 13. A control investment from Sundara Partners LLC, a New York-based private investment firm, facilitated the company’s emergence.
Throughout the reorganization, the company executed a comprehensive financial and operational transformation, rebuilding its balance sheet, modernizing its production and technology infrastructure, and establishing a leadership team capable of supporting long-term, sustainable growth.
Lighthouse Linen will operate through two dedicated divisions, each with its own facilities.
Lighthouse Healthcare serves hospitals, health systems, nursing homes, ambulatory surgery centers and long-term care facilities. The division provides linen rental, customer-owned goods (COG) processing, scrub and uniform programs, exchange cart systems, specialty linen handling, and on-site linen-distribution management.
The company says its operations are designed to meet the rigorous infection control, quality assurance, and on-time delivery standards required in acute care environments.
Lighthouse Hospitality serves hotels, restaurants, hospitality groups and event venues. The division provides bed linen, table linen, toweling, food-and-beverage textiles, and coordinated pickup-and-delivery logistics. Its operations are designed around the consistency, presentation quality and responsiveness that hospitality operators depend on.
Joseph Samuel, a veteran commercial textile care executive, is the company’s president.
“We have a deep understanding of our customers’ needs because we’ve spent decades inside their facilities, working every day alongside nurses and housekeepers,” he says. “With the right financial backing now behind us, we’re investing more than ever in speed, quality, and reliability to build on that experience and serve our customers at an even higher level.”
Vinny Samuel, a pioneer in the industry with over four decades of building and scaling high-performing facilities, leads operations. Jordan Berger and Austin Taylor, managing partners of Sundara Partners, serve as directors of the company and are responsible for strategic direction and financial oversight.
Berger and Taylor say the reorganization provided a rare opportunity to redesign the entire business around the customer experience. “The company is now capitalized for growth, structured for execution, and led by some of the best commercial linen operators in the country. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with this team and invest behind what they've built.”
Lighthouse Linen says its service territory, spanning New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and surrounding regions, represents one of the largest and most concentrated commercial linen markets in the United States.
The company emerges at a moment when regional healthcare and hospitality operators are actively seeking more reliable, responsive and professionally managed linen partners.
With two dedicated production facilities capable of processing several million pounds of textiles monthly, Lighthouse Linen says it operates at a scale that few independent commercial linen processors in the country can match. Its capabilities allow it to serve institutions ranging from single-site nursing homes to multi-campus hospital systems.
Lighthouse Linen owns the entire linen function for its customers, from procurement and processing to inventory management, delivery, on-site distribution, and quality assurance, so that facility operators can treat linen as a solved problem and focus on what they do best.
The company is actively onboarding new healthcare and hospitality accounts across its service territory.
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