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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Vital Signs

Jan 27, 2015

Neglect Your Store's Signage at Your Own Risk Because a laundromat is a self-service business, there is the tendency among some owners to have a "build-it-and-they-will-wash" attitude toward their stores. In other words, the focus is primarily on the equipment offered...

At Your Service: What Laundry Customers Really Want

Jan 27, 2015

Orginally posted - Sep 11, 2013 Attracting and retaining more customers are the keys to any successful business. As a result, figuring out just what it is your laundry customers really want or need to spend their money on – and then giving it to them – is the "holy...

Aiming High

Jan 27, 2015

Originally posted - Feb issue/2012 Corporate Pilot Opens New Laundry in College Town Ross Razak's work hours are hardly 9 to 5. So, he was looking to start a small business with just as much flexibility. Not surprisingly, he found exactly what he was looking for in...

Headlines

Statewide Laundry to Debut Investment Webinars This Fall

Statewide Laundry Equipment - with offices in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Miami, Fla. - will be introducing a new digital approach to presenting laundry investment seminars for newcomers looking to get started in the industry. Webinars, hosted by industry...

Huebsch Recognizes Its Distributor of the Year

Houston's Gulf States Laundry Machinery Honored for the Second Time Huebsch recently named Gulf States Laundry Machinery Co. the company's 2014 Distributor of the Year. "We are honored to name Gulf States Laundry Machinery the 2014 Distributor of the Year," said...

Running ‘In the Margin

Here's How to Control Costs and Prioritize Your Self-Service Customers, While Building a Strong Wash-Dry-Fold Business Perhaps you returned from the recent Clean Show in Atlanta with a renewed interest in getting into the wash-dry-fold business, or maybe now you're...

Find Your Niche

Take Advantage of Large Commercial Laundries Inherent Weaknesses to Develop Your Own Commercial Accounts Business Having just returned from this year's Clean Show in Atlanta, I was encouraged by the number of self-service laundry owners who introduced themselves to me...

CSC ServiceWorks, Pride Laundry Systems Merge

Pride Laundry Owner Mark Goodman to Join CSC Senior Management Team CSC ServiceWorks, a provider of multi-family housing and commercial laundry solutions, and Pride Laundry Systems, a laundry distributor based in North Hills, Calif., have announced that the two...

On-Demand Laundry Delivery Service Opens in Washington D.C. Market

Bob Schwartz is the Owner/Operator of WashClub D.C. WashClubTrak, a tech-based laundry and drycleaning company with on-demand pickup and delivery, is rolling out services in Washington D.C. "Doing laundry is a time-consuming, never-ending problem," said Bob Schwartz,...

A New Phase for PWS Legacy

Brad Steinberg, Brad Pollack Now Sole Company Shareholders/Owners PWS - The Laundry Company has announced that Brad Steinberg and Brad Pollack, co-presidents of PWS, Inc., have concluded a buyout of the corporate stock holdings of Eric Steinberg and Mort Pollack,...

Equipment Marketers Appointed Electrolux, Wascomat Distributor

Laundrylux has announced that Equipment Marketers, based in Cherry Hill, N.J., is now an authorized Electrolux and Wascomat distributor for vended and on-premises laundry equipment. "We are pleased to welcome Richard and Susan LaMaina, along with the entire Equipment...

Clean 2015: Basic Training – Coin Laundry Style

In addition to veteran laundry owners looking to stay one step ahead with regard to the latest trends and technology, the Clean Show has always served as a starting point for potential investors doing their due diligence. However, as the economy improves and with a...

Clean 2015: Wash-Dry-Fold, Commercial Accounts Dominate the Show’s Third Day

With more and more self-service laundry owners looking to grow their businesses through the addition of wash-dry-fold services and commercial accounts work, the Coin Laundry Association – on the third day of Clean 2015 in Atlanta – dedicated the entire morning's...

Clean 2015 Attendance Tops Previous Show

Just two days into Clean 2015 in Atlanta, the laundry industry's biennial trade show has already surpassed the attendance figure of the 2013 event in New Orleans by approximately 5 percent. What's more, the Atlanta show's net square footage of 189,300 square feet is...

Online Marketing, Employee Management Lead Off Clean 2015’s Second Day

The Coin Laundry Association kicked off Day Two of Clean 2015 in Atlanta with a couple of educational sessions covering topics critical to the vast majority of today's self-service laundry owners, if not all small-business operators – (1) leveraging the many business...

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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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Aaxon Donates Laundry Equipment to High School Wrestling Team

Aaxon Laundry Systems has donated a Huebsch washer and dryer to the wrestling program at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The equipment was installed in the locker room area and enables the coaches and student athletes to wash their athletic gear,...

Equipment Marketers to Host 25th Annual Trade Show

Equipment Marketers will hold its 25th annual Trade Show & Service Seminar on May 3 at the company's headquarters in Cherry Hill, N.J. This event – scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. – will feature more than 20 commercial laundry vendors from across the U.S.,...

Minimum Wage Update: Elections Driving Legislative Activity

The last federal minimum wage increase - to $7.25 per hour, from $6.55 per hour - occurred on July 24, 2009. In the years since Congress last increased the minimum wage, state and local leaders across the country have introduced countless minimum wage proposals,...

Clean 2017 Among TSE’s ‘Fastest 50′

Clean 2017 has been named one of Trade Show Executive magazine's 50 Fastest-Growing Shows of 2017. The biennial Clean Show, held in Las Vegas last June, was included in all three categories of the publication's awards competition - net square feet of exhibit space,...

Huebsch Announces Store Owner of the Quarter

Huebsch has named Glen Sheeley the latest recipient of its Store Owner of the Quarter Award. The Sheeley family has been involved in the car wash business in Orange County, N.Y., for decades and had already owned two combination car wash/laundromats before deciding to...