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...

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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  • The Business of Laundry: Models That Work
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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...

ALJCO Partners with R&B Wire Products

ALJCO/ALJ Electronics, based in El Segundo, Calif., has announced a new partnership with R&B Wire Products, Inc., to distribute the manufacturer’s wire, tubular, poly and vinyl bushel products designed for the self-service laundry and OPL...

PWS Holds World Series Contest

Before the Major League Baseball playoffs began in early October, PWS, headquartered in South Gate, Calif., held a simple contest – choose the winner of the World Series and, if your pick is correct, get a refund on all parts ordered. The distributor received...

Clean 2017 Exhibit Sales Top 200,000 Square Feet

After less than five months of exhibit space sales,Clean 2017 booth square footage has already surpassed the total square footage of the last four Clean Shows. Exhibit space sold reached 200,606 square feet on October 6 – with 307 exhibiting companies, including...

EnviroStar Completes Acquisition of Western State Design

EnviroStar Inc., headquartered in Miami, recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of California-based laundry distributor Western State Design, LLC. With this deal, Western State Design and Steiner-Atlantic Corp....

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