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Excellence 2016: The Best of the Best
The Industry's Leading Businesspeople Descend on Southern California to Take a ‘Look Forward' Nearly 200 of the nation's leading laundry owners and industry executives recently joined their peers for two days of high-level networking and progressive educational...
On the ‘Home’ Front
Grow Your Laundry Business by Offering Today's Homeowners What They Want For years, the general consensus had been that competing self-service laundries shared a finite customer base within a given marketplace. Following this line of reasoning, a new store in the...
Up and Running, Part 2
Store Owners Share Their Strategies for Keeping Laundry Equipment in Service and Operating Smoothly [This is the second part in a series on equipment repairs and maintenance.] In last month's cover story, a number of laundry owners shared their strategies and personal...
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CBORD, Washlava Partner to Provide a More Convenient Student Laundry Experience
CBORD, a provider of technology solutions for colleges and universities, and Washlava, a technology company modernizing self-service laundry through its mobile application, have announced their partnership, which features the integration of Washlava into CBORD's...
Industry Roundtable: What’s Next for the Laundry Business?
Leading Manufacturers Weigh In on the Current State of the Vended Laundry Industry – And Where They See It HeadedWhat's ahead for the vended laundry industry?The resurgent U.S. economy of recent years has strengthened and grown the laundromat business in nearly every...
WASH Upgrades Laundry Rooms with PayRange Mobile Payment
WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems - which has more than 7 million people doing their laundry in its WASH-branded laundry rooms every week throughout the U.S. and Canada - has selected PayRange to be the technology provider of its mobile payment solution, thus marking a...
Profit Symposium Attracts Record Numbers
Continental Girbau West and Elite Business Investments recently hosted the Conference of Champions Profit Symposium in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. The event, which focused on ways to improve vended laundry profits and attract new customers, drew record numbers. The...
Commercial Equipment Company to Host Spring Open House
Commercial Equipment Company will hold its annual open house, service school and equipment showcase on May 19 at the company's headquarters in Farmers Branch, Texas. This event - which is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. - will feature extensive educational...
Yankee Equipment Hosts 40th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Sales and Educational Event
Yankee Equipment Systems, based in Barrington, N.H., recently hosted its 40th annual St. Patrick's Day Sales and Education Exhibition at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Mass. This well-attended event gave attendees an opportunity to examine the latest offerings from some...
It’s Time to Think About Excellence
Earl Nightingale in his famous audio recording, "The Strangest Secret", states, "We become what we think about." Napoleon Hill wrote in his book, "Think and Grow Rich", that, "The way to success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge." Leaders throughout...
Uber to Shutter Its On-Demand Small-Item Delivery Service
On June 30, Uber will sunset its on-demand delivery service for laundry, groceries, flowers and other items under 30 pounds. The ride-hailing service has notified its users in an email that it will be shutting down UberRush, which has been doing deliveries for...
PayRange Names New VP of Sales
PayRange Inc. - a developer of app-based mobile payment systems for automated retail based in Portland, Ore. - has named Cecil Ledesma its new vice president of enterprise sales. Ledesma spent the last 20 years at USA Technologies, most recently leading the company's...
Statewide Wraps Up Spring Road Shows
Statewide Laundry Equipment – with offices in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Miami – recently finished its three-day series of annual spring road shows, beginning on March 13 in Tampa at TPepin's Hospitality Centre, followed by a stop in Orlando on March 14, and...
Aaxon Donates Laundry Equipment to High School Wrestling Team
Aaxon Laundry Systems has donated a Huebsch washer and dryer to the wrestling program at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The equipment was installed in the locker room area and enables the coaches and student athletes to wash their athletic gear,...
Creating a Buzz
Here's a Look at the Advantages of Word of Mouth Advertising – And How Your Laundry Business Can Best Leverage ThemWay back, long before social media, the internet, television, radio, printing or even "business" itself (at least as we are familiar with it these days),...
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This Month's Issue
- Green is Good Business: Green Operations Increasingly Important to Feed Consumer Demand
- Women In Laundry: Lee Ann Geurts Loves a Challenge
- Store Profile: Kings Laundry Kicking it in Los Angeles
- Untapped Growth Opportunities
- And More…
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Industry News
Lawmakers Introduce Coin Composition Legislation
U.S. Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) have introduced bipartisan legislation to allow the U.S. Mint to adjust the metal content of circulating coins in an effort to save taxpayer dollars. The Mint estimates that, by adjusting the metal content of...
ESD, Cents Announce New Partnership
Payment systems provider ESD recently teamed up with Cents, a business management software company. Through this partnership, laundromats that currently feature ESD’s card reader equipment now have access to the Cents operating platform – with a no-cost delivery...
Star Distributing Names Vice President of Sales
Star Distributing – headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. – has named John Herron vice president of sales. In his new position, Herron will be responsible for the company’s sales efforts within the vended laundry and OPL segments. He will serve operators in Tennessee,...
Girbau Mexico Names New General Manager
Girbau – headquartered in Vic, Spain – has appointed Ramiro Gordillo as general manager of the company’s subsidiary in Mexico. With this appointment, Girbau has strengthened its management team in Mexico to help drive its growth in the country and continue its...
Summit 2020: Literacy-Rich Spaces in Everyday Places
The LaundryCares Foundation, Too Small to Fail Host 3rd Annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit In mid-September, more than 870 laundromat owners, librarians, educators and philanthropists came together for the 3rd annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit, a three-day virtual...
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The Business Mind
Toughen Up!
Originally posted - Jun 27, 2014 I once read that "the ability to find energy and power from what we can't know or control provides an immense competitive advantage." Of course, as self-service laundry owners, we can only know so much about our businesses, the...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Pricing Large Drop-Off Items
Originally posted - Nov 30, 2012 We are trying to set our wash-dry-fold pricing and have noticed a big difference in how large items are priced. In our area, drycleaners and laundromats with wash-dry-fold services charge a per item fee for comforters, bedspreads,...
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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.
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