by Editor | Jan 14, 2022 | Industry News
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...
by Editor | Jan 9, 2022 | Industry News
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...
by Editor | Jan 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Feature 1, Feature 2, Feature 3, Highlights
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...
by Editor | Jan 8, 2022 | Industry News
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...
by Editor | Jan 2, 2022 | Industry News
Alliance Laundry Systems and United Steelworkers Local 1327 have reached agreement on a new contract, which went into effect January 1, 2022. The new five-year agreement covers 1,750 hourly team members at the Ripon and Manitowoc, Wis., locations. It guarantees 2.5...