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Safety First, Last… Always
The Laundromat Owner’s Guide to Preventing Accidents, Protecting Your Business, and Controlling Your Insurance Costs As more and more entrepreneurs are discovering, running a laundromat can be a hugely rewarding business. But it also comes with its own set of risks...
Blueprint for Success
The Key Elements of a Laundromat Business Plan “If you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin About 30 years ago when I was considering starting my first business, I met with my wife’s boss, who was a business owner, to get some advice. The first...
Reimagining the Laundromat Experience
Technology, Design, and a Strong Focus on the Customer Have Set a New Standard for Store Amenities It’s no secret that today’s successful laundromats are embracing customer-centric amenities that transform what was once a mundane chore into a convenient, even...
Headlines
Southeastern Laundry Equipment Sales Partners with Michigan Laundry Companies
Southeastern Laundry Equipment Sales recently announced a strategic partnership with two long-standing, Michigan-based companies in the commercial laundry sector – Universal Laundry Machinery, Michigan’s largest and oldest distributor of commercial laundry equipment;...
EVI Reports Record Second-Quarter Results
EVI Industries Inc. has announced its operating results for the three- and six-month periods ended December 31, 2024 – including record revenue and record gross profit for both periods, and record gross margin for the six-month period. Since 2016, EVI has executed a...
Wash-Dry-Fold POS Reaches Company Milestone
Wash-Dry-Fold POS founder Brian Henderson deployed his company’s first three point-of-sale systems as a practical and affordable way to manage employees at Liberty Laundry, his family’s chain of laundromats in Broken Arrow, Okla. After nine years of product growth and...
Making an Impact
Dexter Laundry’s Mackenzie Swanson Discusses Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Women Professionals Mackenzie Swanson is a marketing specialist at Dexter Laundry, headquartered in Fairfield, Iowa, where she has been an employee-owner since 2019. In her role,...
Safety First, Last… Always
The Laundromat Owner’s Guide to Preventing Accidents, Protecting Your Business, and Controlling Your Insurance Costs As more and more entrepreneurs are discovering, running a laundromat can be a hugely rewarding business. But it also comes with its own set of risks...
Blueprint for Success
The Key Elements of a Laundromat Business Plan “If you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin About 30 years ago when I was considering starting my first business, I met with my wife’s boss, who was a business owner, to get some advice. The first...
EVI Industries to Acquire Haiges Machinery
EVI Industries Inc. has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Haiges Machinery Inc., a commercial laundry equipment distributor based in Huntley, Ill. This marks EVI’s first acquisition in the Midwest region of the United States. Haiges Machinery will operate...
CLA Appoints Member Engagement Manager
CLA, formerly the Coin Laundry Association, has named Suzanne Henn, CAE, to the newly created position of member engagement manager. In her new position, Henn is responsible for driving growth in membership, enhancing engagement of new and existing members, and...
GNA Adds to Sales Team
Girbau North America has named Aly Auchtung sales solutions associate. In her new role, Auchtung will nurture new construction leads and support special sales projects, while working closely with multiple departments to ensure customer satisfaction and success. Most...
Florida Distributors Donate Commercial Washer to Local Pet Rescue Organization
Laundry Owners Warehouse and The Laundry Shop – two laundry distributorships based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. – have partnered in support of Paws Fur Recovery, a pet rescue organization located in nearby Indiantown, Fla. The two companies donated a commercial LG washer...
Setomatic Systems-SpyderWash Steps Up Its Support of the Industry
Setomatic Systems-SpyderWash, a longtime champion of the industry, has teamed up with the CLA, the laundry association, to take its support to a new level. The company is part of a year-long sponsorship initiative that will have benefits for the entire industry....
Loads of Success
Splash ’Em Out’s Kelli Reed Discusses Her Leap into Laundry Entrepreneurship Kelli Reed is the owner of Splash ’Em Out Laundromats, headquartered in Lexington, Ky., where she operates nine laundromats and one commercial laundry operation. Kelli earned a degree in...
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This Month's Issue
- Safety First, Last… Always: The Laundromat Owner’s Guide to Preventing Accidents, Protecting Your Business, and Controlling Your Insurance Costs
- Laundry 101: The Key Elements of a Laundromat Business Plan
- Business Profile: Big Kahuna Ozone Laundry Offers Customers a Whimsical Touch of the Tropics
- Women in Vended Laundry: Dexter Laundry’s Mackenzie Swanson Discusses Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Women Professionals
- And More…
THE LATEST ON LAUNDROMATS
Industry News
Southeastern Laundry Equipment Sales Partners with Michigan Laundry Companies
Southeastern Laundry Equipment Sales recently announced a strategic partnership with two long-standing, Michigan-based companies in the commercial laundry sector – Universal Laundry Machinery, Michigan’s largest and oldest distributor of commercial laundry equipment;...
EVI Reports Record Second-Quarter Results
EVI Industries Inc. has announced its operating results for the three- and six-month periods ended December 31, 2024 – including record revenue and record gross profit for both periods, and record gross margin for the six-month period. Since 2016, EVI has executed a...
Wash-Dry-Fold POS Reaches Company Milestone
Wash-Dry-Fold POS founder Brian Henderson deployed his company’s first three point-of-sale systems as a practical and affordable way to manage employees at Liberty Laundry, his family’s chain of laundromats in Broken Arrow, Okla. After nine years of product growth and...
EVI Industries to Acquire Haiges Machinery
EVI Industries Inc. has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Haiges Machinery Inc., a commercial laundry equipment distributor based in Huntley, Ill. This marks EVI’s first acquisition in the Midwest region of the United States. Haiges Machinery will operate...
CLA Appoints Member Engagement Manager
CLA, formerly the Coin Laundry Association, has named Suzanne Henn, CAE, to the newly created position of member engagement manager. In her new position, Henn is responsible for driving growth in membership, enhancing engagement of new and existing members, and...
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Columns
The Laundry Doctor
Productive, Efficient and Motivated
Three Keys to Building a Strong Wash-Dry-Fold Team With both the post-COVID-19 era and the laundry outsourcing revolution upon us, many store owners I speak with are seeing their wash-dry-fold businesses growing rapidly. Given that, how do we – as employers, without...
The Business Mind
Persistence Pays Off
When Owning a Laundromat, the Secret to Success is a Constancy of Purpose Famed American writer and lecturer Dale Carnegie firmly believed that “flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” And I...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Cross-Training Your Laundry Attendants
I recently hired a new attendant and have discovered that he possesses great mechanical skills. So, I was thinking of cross-training him to handle some of the more simple equipment issues that arise at my store, in addition of course to his attendant duties. Is there...
Viewpoint
Viewpoint: What a Year It Has Been
At the beginning of the year in this space, I posed the question: “What can the CLA do for you?” More than a catchy (and borrowed) tagline, it was a sincere effort to solicit feedback from CLA members – our customers – as to what they wanted the association to provide...
Digital Marketing
How to Market Your Amenities
Make Your Laundromat a Place People Love I recently renovated my house and faced a big challenge –furnishing it. I had the basics in mind but wanted everything to come together just right. So, I called a few furniture stores I liked, and one of them said something...
Strategic Corporate Allies Program
Our Strategic Corporate Allies support CLA’s mission through advocacy, education, and innovation to strengthen the industry, advance our members’ businesses, and prepare the next generation of laundry professionals for the future.
Interested in becoming a Strategic Corporate Ally of CLA? Contact President & CEO, Brian Wallace via email at [email protected] or call (630) 491-0499.
