Leveling the Playing Field

John Um wanted to make sure small business owners could get fair pricing and access to reliable suppliers without needing to have significant buying power. As a leader whose career spanned several major retail and e-commerce companies, he had seen firsthand how hard...

Staying Fierce: Haley Gould Finds Perfect Fit in Vended Laundry

Haley Gould is the Director of Partner Success for HappyNest. She manages an internal team while leading more than 100 partners across the United States building a successful pickup and delivery operation in addition to running their laundromat business. A consummate...

Metrics That Matter 

Profit, Performance, and Planning in Vended Laundry  The laundromat business is like most businesses in that you need to do a lot of things right to be successful. But how do you know if it’s working? According to successful owners, you just need to look at the...

Startup to Scale

How Western State Design Has Been Helping Laundry Businesses Thrive for More Than 50 Years   For more than five decades, Western State Design has been a leading provider of turnkey laundry solutions across the vended, on-premises, and commercial/industrial markets....

PlanetLaundry Podcast

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Business Bio: Best Price Cleaners

Tahir Kakar Best Price Cleaners Knightdale, N.C. Before Getting into the Laundry Business... With a background in medicine, Kakar came to the United States from Afghanistan in 2001. While in school to earn an American medical degree, he took a part-time job in the...

Been There, Done That

An Interview with Industry Veteran David Horton David Horton has spent his entire adult life in the commercial laundry business – selling equipment, brokering businesses and building stores – from California to the East Coast to the Central Plains, with stops in...

‘I Was Never Interested in Being Average’

An Interview with Tennessee Laundry Owner Kenneth Cherry Kenneth Cherry opened his first self-service laundry in 1959 in Livingston, Tenn., back when the industry was still in its infancy. Today, he owns three stores. Over the years, Mr. Cherry has always been a price...

Headlines

Laundry Owners Warehouse Donates Washer to Pet Rescue Group

The number of abandoned pets in the U.S. is on the rise, and one organization working diligently to provide safe homes for these discarded pets is Abandoned Pet Rescue. Recently, Florida-based distributor Laundry Owners Warehouse donated a Dexter 200G Express Washer...

Networking Opportunities at The Clean Show

CLA Connect, the Open Forum you will find on our website, has been a major asset to the association. Certainly, in fact, the active and vibrant community that dwells there serves as a model online community for many other associations across the country. In a recent...

Expert Brian Dyches Talks Retail Interior Design Success

The Coin Laundry Association’s keynote speaker for The Clean Show 2017 is Brian Dyches, a leading authority and practitioner of global design, strategy and digital customer engagement in retail environments. On Monday, June 5, 2017 at 8:45 a.m. in the Education Room...

WASH Laundry Wins Microsoft ‘Visionary’ Award

California-Based Multi-Family Laundry Service Provider Recognized in Business Insights Category At Convergence 2015, Microsoft Corp.’s premier event for the business community, WASH Laundry was selected as a Visionary Award winner in the Business Insights category....

CLA’s COO, Michael Sokolowski, at the PlanetLaundry Booth

Chief Operating Office and veteran of the laundry business, Michael Sokolowski, will be present at the PlanetLaundry booth (Booth #811) at The Clean Show in Las Vegas on Monday, June 5, 2017 from 1-3 p.m. He will be available to answer any questions about getting into...

PlanetLaundry Presents Dennis Diaz of Spynr at CLEAN 17

In a recent survey conducted by the Coin Laundry Association, marketing issues ranked among the top concerns among laundry owners about their operations. If you have burning questions about marketing your laundry business, come to the PlanetLaundry booth (Booth #811)...

Advantage Equipment Relocates to Larger Facility

Advantage Equipment Inc., based in Akron, Ohio, recently moved into a new facility. The 13,000-square-foot building – located at 1056 Home Ave. in Akron – is three times larger than the company’s previous headquarters. “Advantage Equipment has experienced significant...

A New ‘Spin’ on a Familiar Brand

Tide Tests the Waters of Chicago’s Wash-Dry-Fold Market A few months ago, Proctor & Gamble decided to expand its Tide brand to include a retail, wash-dry-fold model. Using the successful Tide Dry Cleaners franchises as an example of what to expect from this new...

The Laundry Doctor at the PlanetLaundry Booth at Clean ‘17

Jeff Gardner, a.k.a. “The Laundry Doctor,” will be making an appearance at the PlanetLaundry booth (Booth #811) at The Clean Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 from 1-3 p.m. Jeff will be available to answer any of your questions regarding ensuring laundry...

Clean 2017: Las Vegas (or Silicon Valley?)

"Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday." – Steve Jobs Of course, the industry's largest biennial gathering is coming to Las Vegas next month. But, you would be forgiven for mistaking the acres of new equipment, products and...

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HappyNest Launches New Florida Location

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded its operations into Florida’s Palm Beach and northern Broward Counties. “LaundryMe! offers outstanding service at competitive prices, which complements our model perfectly,” explained HappyNest founder John...

Three Texas Distributors Join Forces

Three laundry distributors serving the north, central and south Texas markets recently combined their resources and expertise. AAdvantage Laundry Systems, Scott Equipment and Skyline Equipment have teamed up to better meet the needs of laundry owners and other...

HappyNest Expands into Two New Markets

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has added a new partner in the Wilmington, Del., market. “We have been fortunate to partner with very strong laundry operators in the mid-Atlantic region, and Leo Shao will add to that list,” said HappyNest founder John...

Florida Distributor Sponsors Top Youth Soccer Team

Laundry Owners Warehouse, a distributor based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., recently sponsored Panthers FC, a local youth soccer team that finished in third place in the prestigious 3V3Live Soccer Tour’s South Florida Spookout Tournament. The event boasted more than 80...

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