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From the Washroom to the Boardroom: Supporting Women’s Growth in the Laundry Business
By Aubrey Pollesch The laundry industry is evolving, and so is the face of its leadership. At LaundryLux, we’re proud to be part of a growing movement to elevate women at every level of the business, from internal leadership roles to laundromat ownership and...
Good Marketing Feels Like a Warm Welcome
If you want customers to keep coming back – whether they’re folding socks, dropping off towels or scheduling delivery – you need more than ads. You need to make them feel like they belong. I love throwing dinner parties. Not the stuffy kind with assigned seating and...
How Vended Laundries Might Solicit Commercial Laundry Services
Many vended laundries successfully offer commercial laundry pickup and delivery service to a variety of businesses — from small hotels to medical clinics and dry cleaners — for big gains in store revenue and profit. Moving into this sector makes good sense because it...
Headlines
Laundry Owners Warehouse Donates New Washing Machine to Support Kids in Need Through In Jacob’s Shoes
Laundry Owners Warehouse, known as People You Trust for commercial laundry equipment, parts, and service, has donated a brand-new washing machine to In Jacob’s Shoes, a South Florida nonprofit dedicated to providing shoes, socks, backpacks, and school supplies to...
Longtime Laundromat Owner on 23 Years of Service, Challenges, Community Impact
For more than two decades, Lee Ann Geurts has been a steady force in her Brooklyn Park community in Minnesota, running three laundromats that have become known not just for clean clothes, but for connection, comfort, and care. What began as a business venture for her...
Alliance Laundry Systems Acquires Metropolitan Laundry Machinery Sales
Alliance Laundry Systems, a global leader in commercial laundry equipment, has acquired the distribution assets of Metropolitan Laundry Machinery Sales, based in South Richmond Hill, New York. Metropolitan has served as a key player in the Northeast market for more...
King Laundry is Kicking it in Los Angeles
New Genius Laundry Exceeding Expectations - By Haley Jorgensen Rodger Grossman isn’t new to the laundry industry. In 2008, he purchased and retooled an existing vended laundry in the heart of old Hollywood. A side hustle to his career in the film business, where he...
Uncovering the Root of Organizational Decline by Jumping into the Trenches
By Ashlee Hofberger It can happen to any organization: a lag in performance, slowing of cash flow, and negative reviews. While nothing specific about your product or service appears to be the issue, you can sense something is off, and it’s enough to hurt business. One...
Girbau Global Laundry Solutions Names Enric Saavedra International Key Account Director
Enric Saavedra was recently named Girbau Global Laundry Solutions’ (Girbau) international key account director – making him the main point of contact between Girbau and Girbau North America (GNA). Acting as a liaison, Saavedra facilitates communication and...
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...
Pushing Through
How Laundromat Owners Can Overcome the Uncontrollable and Still Thrive By Dennis Diaz A few months ago, I read a story that hit me hard - in the best way. It was about my high school football team. I didn’t play football, but as an alum, I felt a swell of pride...
Empowering Women in the Laundry Industry
The CLA Women's Laundry Network (WLN) recently hosted a highly successful virtual panel discussion that brought together an inspiring group of women from various sectors of the laundry industry. The event provided a platform for these women to share their stories,...
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...
Wash-Dry-Fold POS® Adds New Tech Support Specialist, Junior Developer
Wash-Dry-Fold POS®, a laundromat management software and point-of-sale solution for laundromat owners, announced the hiring of Cole Norton as its new Tech Support Specialist and Junior Software Developer. Cole brings a strong background in both tech support and...
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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This Month's Issue
- Tech on the Rise: How Operators Are Using Innovation to Run Smarter, Faster Laundromats: From AI phone systems to real-time data tracking, operators and suppliers share how technology is reshaping the modern laundry business and what’s coming next.
- Business Profile: Delivering a Superior
Laundry Experience - Member Spotlight: Rick Rome –
Innovating Laundry, One Customer at a Time - Guest Column: How AI Changed Google Reviews (What Laundromat Owners Need to Know)
- And More…
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Industry News
Booth Sales Open for DL Expo 2026
Drycleaning & Laundry Industry Gears Up for Major 2026 Event in Texas The Southwest Drycleaners Association (SDA) and the California Cleaners Association (CCA) are pleased to announce that booth sales are open for the Drycleaning & Laundry Expo West (DL Expo...
CleanCloud Partners with Laundry Lockers by Highmark to Offer Flexible Locker Solutions
CleanCloud has partnered with Laundry Lockers by Highmark Manufacturing to offer secure, flexible locker solutions to laundry and dry cleaning businesses. This non-integrated partnership enables operators to manage locker orders through the CleanCloud...
Girbau North America changes name to Continental Laundry Solutions
Girbau North America (GNA) officially changed its name to Continental Laundry Solutions (Continental). The name change reflects both a return to the company’s original identity and a renewed focus on strategic growth, partnership and support across North America’s...
Laundry Owners Warehouse Donates New Washing Machine to Support Kids in Need Through In Jacob’s Shoes
Laundry Owners Warehouse, known as People You Trust for commercial laundry equipment, parts, and service, has donated a brand-new washing machine to In Jacob’s Shoes, a South Florida nonprofit dedicated to providing shoes, socks, backpacks, and school supplies to...
Alliance Laundry Systems Acquires Metropolitan Laundry Machinery Sales
Alliance Laundry Systems, a global leader in commercial laundry equipment, has acquired the distribution assets of Metropolitan Laundry Machinery Sales, based in South Richmond Hill, New York. Metropolitan has served as a key player in the Northeast market for more...
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The Laundry Doctor
Are You ‘Socially’ Awkward?
You Don’t Need to Be a Social Media Guru to Grow Your Laundry Business Online Over the years, I learned to accept that I simply can’t keep up with everything that’s happening these days in the social media and online marketing world. When it comes to search engine...
The Business Mind
From the Washroom to the Boardroom: Supporting Women’s Growth in the Laundry Business
By Aubrey Pollesch The laundry industry is evolving, and so is the face of its leadership. At LaundryLux, we’re proud to be part of a growing movement to elevate women at every level of the business, from internal leadership roles to laundromat ownership and...
Wash With Wally
Wash With Wally: Attracting Customers, Equipment Layout
I’m in the process of building a laundromat. I have never been in this type of business before, so I’d like to know what laundry customers want, what attracts them and what keeps them coming back. In my opinion, there are six main elements that your new laundry...
Viewpoint
Viewpoint: What a Year It Has Been
At the beginning of the year in this space, I posed the question: “What can the CLA do for you?” More than a catchy (and borrowed) tagline, it was a sincere effort to solicit feedback from CLA members – our customers – as to what they wanted the association to provide...
Digital Marketing
Pushing Through
How Laundromat Owners Can Overcome the Uncontrollable and Still Thrive By Dennis Diaz A few months ago, I read a story that hit me hard - in the best way. It was about my high school football team. I didn’t play football, but as an alum, I felt a swell of pride...
Strategic Corporate Allies Program
Our Strategic Corporate Allies support CLA’s mission through advocacy, education, and innovation to strengthen the industry, advance our members’ businesses, and prepare the next generation of laundry professionals for the future.
Interested in becoming a Strategic Corporate Ally of CLA? Contact President & CEO, Brian Wallace via email at [email protected] or call (630) 491-0499.
