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Is Your Phone Doing All It Can for Your Laundry?
Today's Technology Can Transform Your Business Phone into One of Your Most Formidable Marketing and Management Tools Sometimes something very simple that we take for granted every day may be overlooked as a great management tool. If you are a laundry owner like me,...
A Low-Maintenance Investment in Your Business
Three Common Maintenance Issues – And How to Prevent Them Just one out-of-order machine can seem rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Right? Not so fast. In the long-term, downtime means lost revenue and frustrated customers. When easily prevented...
A Low-Maintenance Investment in Your Business
Three Common Maintenance Issues – And How to Prevent Them Just one out-of-order machine can seem rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Right? Not so fast. In the long-term, downtime means lost revenue and frustrated customers. When easily prevented...
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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...
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...
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...
The Dirty Laundry of Politics: Voting at the Laundromat
On Election Day, most people perform their civic duty in familiar settings such as recreation centers, schools, libraries or church basements. However, some find themselves at more unorthodox polling places – such as their local laundromat. For example, among...
Huebsch Names First-Time Operator Its Store Owner of the Quarter
Huebsch has named Tony El-Khouri the latest recipient of its Store Owner of the Quarter Award. El-Khouri completely revamped the self-service laundry he purchased in 2013 – turning Sun Valley Laundromat into a successful and flourishing business within a few...
Laundry Owners Warehouse Hosts Successful Open House
Laundry Owners Warehouse held its first-ever open house on October 13 at the company’s headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. “Unexpectedly, the event turned into a CEO summit, as top multi-store owners from across the country and around the world...
WASH Laundry Acquires Angel Coin Service
WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems, headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., has acquired Angel Coin Service, the route laundry division of Angel Appliances, which is based in North Hills, Calif. The acquisition strengthens WASH’s presence in the Southern California...
Card Industry Delays Continue to Slow Chip Card Transition
More than a year after card companies’ deadline for retailers to accept new chip-based credit cards, delays by the card industry have left thousands of new chip readers unused and consumers with far less improvement in security than what was sought by merchants,...
Statewide Laundry Equipment Hosts Laundry Improvement Expos
Statewide Laundry Equipment recently hosted three full days of laundry improvement expos, which boasted impressive turnouts each day. These events – held September 13-14 in Kissimmee, Fla., and September 21 in Hialeah, Fla. – featured educational seminars...
D&M Grows Parts Department
D&M Equipment has named Edwin Grande its new parts associate. Grande, who has been with the company for two years, will work closely with D&M Parts Manager Dan Welden to better serve the distributor’s parts customers, as well as to help grow this segment...
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This Month's Issue
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Connecting, Learning, Advocating: CLA Maximizes Impact at Clean Show 2025
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Member Spotlight: Finding a Niche in the Laundromat Industry
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PlanetLaundry Podcast: Turning Setbacks into Success: Saichelle McNeill’s Journey
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A Laundromat With Heart: Inside Cherry Drive’s Customer-First Approach
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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,...
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