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The CLA: What It Does for You – The List is Long and Its Value is Growing
As we move forward into 2019, the industry will see a significant shift in how the Coin Laundry Association operates and the educational products and resources it produces. Every change is part of the CLA Board of Directors’ long-term plan to grow and enhance the...
Is 2019 the Year You Finally Become a Laundry Owner?
If Operating Your Own Vended Laundry Business is Your New Year’s Resolution, Read This First On New Year’s Day, I know two things to be true. First, throngs of men and women from coast to coast will become members of their local fitness clubs or big-box gyms, which...
Up Close: An Interview with the Blue Kangaroo’s Neil Polifka
Business is Hopping: An Exclusive Chat with Neil Polifka, Vice President of Marketing and Store Development for The Blue Kangaroo Chain Whit Hughes established the Hughes Equipment Co. in 1958. He was one of the industry’s earliest coin laundry distributors. And, for...
Headlines
Clean Show Postponed Until Summer 2022
Messe Frankfurt has announced that the 2021 edition of The Clean Show will be postponed due to the continued global impact of COVID-19. The next edition will be held July 30-August 2, 2022, in Atlanta. After months of strategic conversations with Messe Frankfurt’s...
Speed Queen Adds Daniels Equipment to Distributor Network
Speed Queen recently added Daniels Equipment Company to its distributor network. Daniels Equipment, based in Auburn, N.H., will represent the brand throughout New England – including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The...
The Heroes Among Us
Saluting Just a Few of the Many Military Veterans Who Continue to Serve… Now as Part of the Laundry Industry On the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or truce, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany, ending the First World War....
PlanetLaundry Podcast, Episode 15: How’s Business During COVID-19?
In this episode, the conversation between PlanetLaundry Editor Bob Nieman and Brian Wallace, President/CEO of the Coin Laundry Association, continues in this "How's Business?" segment where questions about the coin shortage and other COVID-19 related issues are...
Speed Queen Offers Free Laundromat Technology Webinar
Speed Queen has made a new webinar recording available for free to laundromat owners and investors interested in learning about technology. The “Technology and Your Laundromat” webinar introduces the wide range of technology available to store owners. It looks at some...
CLA Kicks Off a ‘Month of Thanks’
The Coin Laundry Association is celebrating a “Month of Thanks” in November to show its appreciation for its members and the industry. With November being the month we celebrate Thanksgiving and with the challenging year this has been, the CLA thought this month would...
HappyNest Launches New Miami Location
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded into the Miami market. “HappyNest has been very successful with our partners in Palm Beach and Broward counties, and we have found another great partner in Miami, which will allow for widespread marketing...
PlanetLaundry Podcast, Episode 14: How’s Business with LaundryCares?
In this episode, PlanetLaundry editor Bob Nieman interviews CLA's President/CEO about the latest information pertaining to the LaundryCares Foundation, the Coin Laundry Association's 501(c)3 charity, and LaundryCare's mission to foster literacy through everyday spaces...
Planet Laundry Podcast, Episode 13: How’s Business?
In this episode you will hear our editor Bob Nieman interview CLA’s President and CEO Brian Wallace in the first installment of a segment we’re calling, “How’s Business,” a laundry industry information update about a variety of important topics pertaining to the...
Weathering the Storm
Three Laundromat Owners Who Have Adapted – And Continue to Thrive – During the COVID-19 Pandemic Although the COVID-19 shutdown in March left many businesses out in the cold, laundromats – deemed as providing essential services – motored on, adapted to the changes and...
GNA Salutes Long-Time Staffers
Girbau North America recently recognized more than a dozen employees who have accrued 10 to 25 years of service to the company. “The fact that our employees continue to find our company a favorable career choice lends itself to the idea that our work environment,...
WaveMAX Announces 100th Development Deal
Laundromat franchise WaveMAX Laundry recently announced its 100th development agreement. In addition, the company plans to have more than 50 WaveMAX facilities up and running by 2022. Recent agreements have been signed to bring the brand to New Orleans and Houston,...
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This Month's Issue
- 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
- Untapped Growth Opportunities
- And More…
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Industry News
White House Expands SBA Program Targeting Underserved Entrepreneurs
Vice President Kamala Harris and Isabel Guzman, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, recently announced reforms to the agency’s Community Advantage loan program, a key SBA tool for Community Development Financial Institutions, Community Development...
Currency Redesign on Schedule, Yet Still Years Away
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has reported that the upcoming currency redesign process – including the new $20 notes to feature a likeness of Harriet Tubman – is on schedule. In 2013, the Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence Steering Committee indicated that the $10...
Laundry Capital Unveils Mural Memorializing Fire Victims
Laundry Capital Co. LLC recently hosted a memorial event at Clean Rite Center in the Bronx, N.Y., to remember the victims of a recent apartment fire in the neighborhood. On January 9, at Site 4 of Twin Parks North West – a 19-story public housing building in the Bronx...
GNA Adds New Service Support Tech
Girbau North America recently welcomed James Roberts to its service support team. As a service support technician, Roberts handles daily communications with GNA product end-users and distributor technicians to help troubleshoot and resolve laundry product technical...
Top Tax Trends of 2022
According to MultiState Associates, a state and local government relations firm based in Alexandria, Va., here are some of the top tax trends for 2022: Record Revenues: Nearly every state has taken in record revenue. No state is projecting a budget shortfall for FY...
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The Laundry Doctor
Avoid Customer Complaints… Before They Ever Occur
Originally posted - Apr 22, 2014 Professional drycleaners have a number of releases they have their customers fill out, because of all the delicate and specialty items they handle – such as silk, leather and so on. In essence, these drycleaners are telling their...
The Business Mind
‘No Tears in the Writer, No Tears in the Reader’
Current Research into the Human Brain Has Begun to Explain How and Why Customers React to Marketing Messages in the Way They Do "As regarding advertising, you've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut, because if they don't feel it, nothing...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: The Keys to Cleaning White Items
At my laundry, we do a lot of commercial and residential drop-off laundry. Unfortunately, I have a tough time getting white socks to look really white. Any suggestions? Also, we wash white towels for a local physical therapist. We routinely receive towels with makeup...
Viewpoint
A Healthy Obsession
As it is with many, if not most, small-business owners, I'm almost obsessive when it comes to tracking the financial health of my business. From the beginning, I have insisted on collecting daily – first at one location, and now three. Fortunately, with two sons...
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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.
