Building Relationships

Here are Three Ways to Develop a Rapport with Business Owners Who Can Help Grow Your Commercial Accounts Service Once you’ve decided to commit to breaking into the commercial accounts segment of the laundry business, the most important factor to realize this...

Continental Creative Services Reaches Milestone

Continental Creative Services, a subsidiary of Continental Girbau, will celebrate its 10-year anniversary in 2015. CCS is a marketing communications company that provides marketing, advertising and public relations services to Continental distributors and their...

CG West to Host Spring Service Schools

During March and April, Continental Girbau West will hold several vended and on-premise laundry service schools at its headquarters in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. These service schools are free. The schedule is: • March 21 (9 a.m. to noon): The EH020 Service School will...

Electrolux Selected for UN Global Compact 100 Index

For the second consecutive year, Electrolux has been included as a constituent in the Global Compact 100, a stock index composed of companies that have signed the United Nations Global Compact. The GC 100 is composed of a representative group of companies with...

CG West Announces New Vice President

Tod Sorensen has been named vice president of Continental Girbau West, a Continental Girbau subsidiary distributorship based in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. Sorensen – a laundry industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience related to distribution; management;...

Wash with Wally: High Water Bills

I have three laundries, and my water bills are extremely high at one of the stores. What’s the problem? What should I do? I would bet the problem is occurring at one of your older stores. And this problem could be one of two things – the dump valves or the...