Green is Good Business

Green Operations Increasingly Important to Feed Consumer Demand When Green Laundry Lounge co-owners Pulin and Krishna Dasai got into the vended laundry industry, they wanted to change a narrative: laundromats are water and energy-intensive businesses. “The laundromat...

Green is Good Business

Green Operations Increasingly Important to Feed Consumer Demand When Green Laundry Lounge co-owners Pulin and Krishna Dasai got into the vended laundry industry, they wanted to change a narrative: laundromats are water and energy-intensive businesses. “The...

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...

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Taking a Systems Approach to Energy Efficiency

Jan 29, 2015

Originally posted - Mar 26, 2012 In recent years, energy efficiency has become a hot topic for the self-service laundry industry, and coin laundry owners now have more options than ever to reduce their energy consumption. What's more, most industry experts will agree...

Securing Financing

Jan 29, 2015

Originally posted - Apr 17, 2012 When starting a new business venture, the initial capital investment is one of the first preparatory measures an investor will need to research. Your research will lead you to a reputable equipment distributor who will want to know how...

Team Building

Jan 29, 2015

Originally posted - Jan 29, 2014 As gloomy national headlines continue to herald the huge numbers of unemployed, laundry owners are provided with a large pool from which to obtain prospective workers. If you're in need of an employee or two, there are many ways to get...

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Wash with Wally: Removing Food Oil Stains, Dealing with Smoke Odors and More…

I have a great drop-off laundry business. Up until recently, I had no problems with stain removal. However, last month, I picked up a restaurant account and now wash a great deal of their linen. My problem is that I can't seem to remove the food oil stains from the...

How’s Business?

Owners Discuss the Current State of Their Laundry Operations, While Sharing the Specific Indicators They Use to Gauge Success The small-business half of the economy seems to have clawed its way back to a somewhat normal level of economic activity. According to the...

You Become Part of the Fabric of the Community

Philadelphia Laundry Owners Are Changing Lives in the Neighborhoods They Serve The Laundry Café is the creative vision of owners Brian Holland and Tyrone Akins – two former Big Pharma executives who grew up in the inner city and share a commitment of providing an...

Get the Conversation Started

3 Customer-Engagement Tips Designed to Boost Your Store's Digital Marketing Success Economies rise and fall – and, thus, businesses have to weather the good and the bad. At this point, the most recent economic downturn is a few years behind us, but that period brought...

Risky Business

Unless You Regularly Tackle Tough Commercial Laundry Stains, Chlorine Bleach Most Likely is an Unnecessary Risk to Your Wash-Dry-Fold Service I recently received a phone call from a CLA member who had just ruined a wash-dry-fold order. As it turned out, one of her...

Risky Business

Although Biohazard Laundry Poses Some Obvious Challenges, With the Proper Procedures in Place, It Can Become a Profitable Segment of Your Full-Service Laundry Operation One of the biggest decisions you’ll need to make with regard to your wash-dry-fold and...

Yankee Hosts 38th Annual Vended Laundry Trade Show

Gerry Guertin Named SpyderWash Salesperson of the Year A record number of registered attendees – coupled with a throng of store owners and potential investors who registered at the door, as well as experts from all segments of the industry – created a highly energized...

WASH Laundry Names Vice President of M&A, Business Development

WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems, headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., has named Miles Oh its new vice president of mergers & acquisitions and business development. Oh will lead WASH's growth efforts through strategic mergers and acquisition activity and expansion...

PWS Opens New South Gate Headquarters

PWS - The Laundry Company has opened its new headquarters in the Hollydale neighborhood of South Gate, Calif. The new office is located on a 60,000-square-foot lot, which is also home to the local county library. In addition to the complete restoration of an historic...

Chicago Laundry Industry Pioneer Don Tomasian Retires

Joe Frankian Takes the Helm at D&M Equipment Don Tomasian, the founder of Chicago-based D&M Equipment Co. and a 50-year veteran of the commercial laundry industry, has announced his retirement. Tomasian got his start in the industry as a service technician for...

Integrity Laundry Solutions Hosts Successful Educational Event

Integrity Laundry Solutions, based in Walla Walla, Wash., recently hosted its first annual Profit Symposium. This educational event - which drew 28 self-service laundry owners and investors from throughout Washington and Oregon - provided presentations and methods for...

Loomis Brothers Hires New Sales Rep

Loomis Brothers Equipment Co., based in Fenton, Mo., has named Drew Hoselton its new sales representative for the western Missouri and Kansas regions. Hoselton will be responsible for the vended laundry and OPL markets in those regions. "We are very excited to add...

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CG West, Elite Business Investments to Host Pre-Clean Open House

Continental Girbau West and Elite Business Investments will co-host a Pre-Clean Preview Open House on Saturday, May 4, at CG West’s headquarters in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. The event – scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. – is open to all southern California vended...

Low Cost Manufacturing Names New VP

Low Cost Manufacturing Inc. has named Ken MacKay as the company’s new vice president of parts, sales and distribution. Prior to joining LCM, MacKay spent 12 years overseeing the parts department for a major machinery dealer in the laundry industry. He was responsible...

Chelsea Clinton, New Research Findings Highlight Second Annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit in Chicago

As part of the second annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit, held March 19-20 in Chicago, Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton – on behalf of the foundation’s work in early childhood learning through its Too Small to Fail initiative – met with local families...

Free Laundry Day to Benefit Miami Area

On Monday, March 25, 2019, My Sunny Laundry will simultaneously host a LaundryCares Free Laundry Day at its two locations in the Miami area from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. The two locations are: My Sunny Laundry, 16897 NW 67th Ave., Miami Lakes, Fla. 33015 My Sunny Laundry,...

TLC Tri-State Laundry Companies Named Electrolux Professional Laundry Distributor

Laundrylux has announced that TLC Tri-State Laundry Companies has joined the Electrolux Professional laundry distribution network. Founded in 1995 by Matthew Stephenson, TLC Tri-State has grown from one individual to a support team of more than 80 dedicated...