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....

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Business Bio: Waters Express Laundry Center

Mar 26, 2015

Phillip and Lois Irwin Waters Express Laundry Center Tampa, Fla. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Phil Irwin is retired from the United States Air Force and is a former McDonald's franchisee, with three locations. Store Opening December 2013 Business Hours •...

Laundry City

Mar 12, 2015

John Pinnock Laundry City Baltimore, Md. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Pinnock was a consulting arborist, as well as involved in real estate investment. Store Opening November 15, 2014 Business Hours Laundry City is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week....

The Coin Laundry Association Announces 2015 Clean Show Lineup, Recognizes Sponsors

Mar 11, 2015

Oakbrook Terrace, IL – March 5, 2015 - The Coin Laundry Association (CLA) is proud to be a part of this year's Clean Show. The association also recognized the 2015 signature sponsors who are making the CLA lineup of educational, networking and social receptions...

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Sizing Up a Potential Laundry Location

Demographic and Competitive Analyses are Time-Consuming and Maybe a Bit Boring – But They Can Be Critical to Finding a Winning Store SiteDemographic and competitive analyses can be useful tools for assessing whether or not a location has the potential to be a...

2016: The Year in Review

A Look Back at the Past 12 Months – And a Peek at What Lies Ahead for the Laundry Industry in 2017It’s that time of year again – a time to reminisce about the 366 days gone by (yes, it was a leap year)… and to try to get a feeling for what the...

We Were Determined to Give Them the Very Most

An Interview with Reginald Milton, Executive Director of the South Memphis Alliance – And a Laundry Operator Reginald Milton is executive director and founder of the South Memphis Alliance, which is a nonprofit organization established in 2000. The SMA’s...

Mapping Out Your Marketing Future

Here’s a Look at the Major Marketing Trends of 2016 – Along with a Few Predictions for the Coming YearCartography, the art and science of creating maps, has reportedly been around for more than 4,000 years. The ancient Babylonians etched maps on clay, the...

Minimizing Payroll, Maximizing Productivity

With Labor Costs on the Rise, Getting the Most Out of Your Staff is Critical to the Success of Your Wash-Dry-Fold and Commercial Laundry Business As a small-business owner, you’re very likely aware that there’s a movement in cities and states across the...

Business Bio: Laundry Clinic

Dr. Nick Ogunmola Laundry Clinic Haltom City, Texas Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Dr. Ogunmola is currently a pediatric gastroenterologist at Cook Children’s Hospital in Ft. Worth, Texas. Store Opening The Laundry Clinic opened on August 20,...

Continental Names New Staff Members

Continental Girbau Inc. recently welcomed Peter Grasee of Ripon, Wis., as inside sales and customer care associate; Sarah Griffin of Fond du Lac, Wis., and Courtney Krepline of Brillion, Wis., as graphic/web designers; Mike Lynch of Oshkosh, Wis., as Girbau Industrial...

Oshkosh Express Laundry Donates $1,860 to Breast Health Fund

Oshkosh Express Laundry Center, based in Oshkosh, Wis., recently presented a check for $1,860 to the Aurora Health Care Foundation’s Oshkosh Pink Possible Breast Health Fund. The Pink Possible campaign, held throughout October each year, engages local businesses...

Dexter University Hosts Sales Academy

Dexter Laundry recently honored the fall 2016 graduating class of Dexter University – Sales Academy. This class was comprised of Dexter authorized distributors from around the world, representing five countries and totaling more than 350 years of experience in...

Laundry Systems of Tennessee Now Carries Primus Equipment

Primus has announced a new partnership with Laundry Systems of Tennessee. The commercial laundry equipment distributor will now offer Primus equipment to self-service laundries and on-premises laundry facilities in Kentucky and Tennessee. “We are thrilled to...

Clean Show Registration, Housing Now Open

Those planning to attend Clean 2017 in Las Vegas, June 5-8, can now register for the show and make their hotel reservations on the show’s website. For the first time, members of any of the five national sponsoring associations can register for a discounted fee...

Registration and Housing Opens for Clean 2017

People planning to attend Clean 2017 in Las Vegas June 5-8 can register for the show and make their hotel reservations starting November 17 on the show’s website. The Clean Show is the world’s largest exhibition of commercial laundry, drycleaning and...

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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
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Textile-Care Industries Mourn David Cotter

Textile Care Allied Trades Association CEO David Cotter passed away on August 9 in Polk County, Fla. Since April 1993, Cotter, 64, served as the chief executive officer of TCATA, which is an international trade association representing the manufacturers and...

WASH Partners with Hercules Corp.

WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems, headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., has partnered with Hercules Corp., a third-generation laundry distributor, based in Hicksville, N.Y. According to WASH, the partnership will reinforce the company’s market presence throughout the...

Huebsch Honors Gulf States Laundry Machinery with Industry Benchmark Award

For the second consecutive year and fourth time overall, Huebsch has presented Gulf States Laundry Machinery Co., and its Houston and Atlanta branches, with the manufacturer’s highest honor – the 2018 Industry Benchmark Award (formerly known as the Distributor of the...

CLA Connect LIVE Hosts Midwest Events

Current and potential store owners, along with distributors and manufacturers, gathered in Beachwood, Ohio, on July 30 and in Bloomington, Minn., on July 31 to network, enjoy a nice meal and sharpen their business knowledge at two recent CLA Connect LIVE events. The...

Statewide Laundry Equipment Adds Two New Road Show Stops

Statewide Laundry Equipment – with locations in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and Smyrna, Ga. – has added two new stops in North Carolina and Georgia to the company’s series of Road Shows this October. In addition to two previously scheduled events in Florida,...