Industry Mourns Dick Lutts
Laundry industry pioneer Dick Lutts recently passed away at the age of 98. Lutts, a former vice president of Salem Laundry Company in Salem, Mass., is widely credited with moving the company away from a strictly laundry delivery business model to one that also...
Idaho Laundromat Partners with Local Library to Promote Childhood Literacy
Get The Funk Out Laundromat, based in Caldwell, Idaho, has teamed up with the Caldwell Public Library and the Laundry Literacy Coalition to help promote early childhood literacy by installing a Family Read, Play & Learn Center within the laundry business. “Over...
Delivering the Goods (Part 2)
Marketing and Growing Your Laundry Business’ Pickup-and-Delivery Service [This is the second of a two-part feature. You can read Part One here.] Clearly, you will face obstacles as you promote and begin to grow your residential pickup-and-delivery business, especially...ACI Names Digital Communications Senior Director
The American Cleaning Institute – a trade association for the cleaning products supply chain, including laundry detergents – has promoted Jessica Ek to senior director of digital communications. Ek has been with ACI since 2018, previously serving as director of...
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