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Heating Your Stores Water
A Primer for Today's Self-Service Laundry Operator Hot water – along with total water usage (and the demand for both in the latest generation of washers) – is as much as 65 percent less than it was for most washers when I started in this business in 1979. With that...
Laying Out Your Laundromat
Tips for Planning and Designing Your New Self-Service Laundry Business for Maximum Effectiveness and Customer Convenience [The following is an excerpt from the popular laundry business book, "Secrets of Buying and Owning Laundromats." ] When planning and designing...
2015: The Year in Review
Recapping the Issues That Defined the Year – And Looking Ahead to 2016 In odd-numbered years, typically nothing that occurs in the self-service laundry industry can steal the spotlight from the Clean Show. And 2015 – with the industry's trade show and convention...
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Clean 2017 Targets Full-Service Laundry Model
Laundry Apps and Organizational Tools for Processed Wash-Dry-Fold Orders on Display in Las VegasThis year's Clean Show was a huge hit on so many different levels – not the least of which being the new products and technologies now available to the wash-dry-fold...
Face First into Facebook
Isn't It About Time You Started Promoting Your Business on the Largest Social Media Network on the Internet? Here's How…[This is the first in a series of articles on how to market your laundry business through Facebook.]So, you've decided to include Facebook as part...
LG Breaks Ground On Home Washer Plant in U.S.
LG Electronics recently took a ceremonial step closer to domestic manufacturing when dignitaries, including U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, joined management in breaking ground on the company's first U.S. appliance plant....
Overbuilding Slows Multi-Family Housing Market
Over the last year, the multi-family housing market has been lukewarm, to say the least. In fact, ITR Economics - which produces quarterly economic reports for Coin Laundry Association members - recently noted that the single-family market currently outnumbers the...
Florida Laundry Owner Donates Swimming Lessons to Local Youth
Florida multi-store owner Tom Rhodes has always given back to his community through a variety of programs, such as washing blankets for a local faith-based outreach center or donating a percentage of his laundries' profits to charitable organizations.However, Rhodes...
Western State Design to Host Training Seminars
Western State Design, headquartered in Hayward, Calif., will sponsor four free Dexter Laundry service training seminars this fall – one in Seattle and three in California. These events will provide vended laundry owners and operators an opportunity to learn "expert...
[Video] IMPORTANT UPDATE: The Laundry Doctor Coming to Georgia August 30, 2017
We've added long-time PlanetLaundry contributor, Jeff Gardner (a.k.a. "The Laundry Doctor") to the program for the Georgia Laundromat Industry Meet-Up in Atlanta on August 30, 2017. This free lunch event, which will feature networking, education, and industry...
Atlas International Names Wechsler Its New Vended Laundry Sales Manager
Atlas International Laundry & Dry Cleaning Equipment Co. – a distributor of vended laundry and OPL equipment headquartered in Dallas – has named Arthur Wechsler its new vended laundry equipment sales manager for the Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana markets.Wechsler,...
Primus Honors Leading Distributors, Names Atlas International Its Distributor of the Year
Primus recently announced its distributor network award winners in a ceremony held at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. During this event, Atlas International received the manufacturer's top honor of Distributor of the Year.Atlas, based in Dallas, has excelled in not only...
Georgia Area Self-Service Laundry Industry Meet-Up August 30, 2017
Attention all Laundry Business Owners, Distributors, and Potential Investors in the beautiful state of Georgia: The Coin Laundry Association will be facilitating a local "meet-up"event on August 30, 2017. This lunch-and-learn-style opportunity is intended to bring...
Sav-A-Day Laundry to Host Open House
Sav-A-Day Laundry Machinery will hold its 59th annual open house and sales event on October 9 at the company's headquarters in St. Louis.This event – which is scheduled to run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. – will feature service seminars throughout the day, focusing on...
[Video] Watch a LaundryCares Foundation Free Laundry Day
If you haven't experienced a LaundryCares Foundation Free Laundry Day event, we strongly encourage you to join us for an upcoming date at a laundromat near you. These powerful events draw dozens of families in need who have expressed their appreciation for some relief...
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This Month's Issue
- Metrics That Matter: Profit, Performance, and Planning in Vended Laundry
- Women In Laundry: Haley Gould Finds Perfect Fit
- Company Close-Up: Company Founded to Help Small Businesses Shines
- New Member Spotlight: How Robotics Could Change Laundromat Industry
- And More…
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Industry News
Hermes Commercial Names VP of Sales
Hermes Commercial Laundry Equipment, headquartered in Bloomington, Ill., has named Robert Mattocks its new vice president of sales. Mattocks – who will report directly to Hermes owner Mark Wilkins – has more than 15 years of account management and sales experience....
Trump Signs COVID-19 Worker Relief Bill
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, a measure created to ensure paid sick leave for workers and to widen coronavirus testing. Senators overwhelmingly supported the House bill that covers the cost of all coronavirus...
HappyNest Launches New Florida Location
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded into the Tampa, Fla., market. “We’ve been focused on the east coast of Florida for a few months, and we’ve made great progress there, signing the best production partners in that region,” said HappyNest...
CCI Celebrates 20 Years in Business
This year marks the 20th year of business for CCI, more formally known as Card Concepts Inc. “As with many things in life, time has flown by,” said CCI President Steve Marcionetti. “I remember our first card system install as if it were yesterday.” Twenty years is no...
Laundromats Should Remain Open During COVID-19 Outbreak Providing Essential Service
The Coin Laundry Association is requesting that authorities designate laundromats as providing “essential services” during the COVID-19 outbreak. These facilities provide a basic public health service by serving millions of families with a safe place to wash and dry...
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The Laundry Doctor
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The Business Mind
Spin Some New Webs
Originally posted - May 12, 2014 Isn't the internet amazing? Just think about it - from your computer or mobile device, you have the ability to explore the world and, along with it, a world of knowledge. It's virtually limitless in terms of the subjects you can...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Fire-Damaged Dryers
Originally posted - Sep 16, 2013 I have a huge problem with my insurance company. I had a dryer fire, in which half of my dryers were totally destroyed. The other half had minor heat damage, but a lot of smoke and stain damage. The problem I'm having is that the...
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