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Business Bio: Wash on Western
Ross Dodds and Russel Pinkard Wash on Western Los Angeles, Calif.Before Getting into the Laundry Business…Dodds and Pinkard were involved in the business of wholesale and liquidation sales.Store OpeningDodds and Pinkard purchased the laundromat in December 2014....
Securing and Promoting Your Wi-Fi Access: Clean 2017 Presentation
With the increasing popularity of laundry owners offering Wi-Fi access to their customers, securing your network and marketing this now-common store amenity are critical for today's operators. As a result, Thomas Reamer, a systems engineer for Chicago-based IT...
Vend Pricing: Philosophies and Fallacies
Laundry Owners Discuss Their Pricing Strategies for Success [This is the first of a two-part series on vend price strategies for today’s self-service laundry businesses.] Pricing is perhaps the most exciting, talked-about and gut-wrenching aspect of owning and...
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Go Beyond Basic Website Maintenance
Three Tips to Help ‘Future-Proof’ Your Business’ Site One of the biggest draws of the vended laundry industry is that it’s “future-proof.” In other words, unless there’s some type of apocalypse that none of us see coming, people are going to need to do their laundry....
LaundryCares Announces Free Laundry Day in New Orleans
On June 19 – the day prior to the start of Clean Show 2019 – the LaundryCares Foundation will hold a free laundry day in the show’s host city of New Orleans. This event, which will run from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., will take place at two locations simultaneously within...
Clean ’19 Sells Out Exhibit Space
With less than one month until Clean 2019 kicks off at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, exhibit space is officially sold out. The textile care industry’s premier exhibition will be held June 20-23. The 2019 edition of this event follows in the...
CG West, Elite Business Investments Host Successful Open House
Continental Girbau West and Elite Business Investments recently co-hosted the Pre-Clean Preview Open House at CG West headquarters in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. The event drew Southern California vended laundry owners and investors, who took advantage of equipment...
Mountain Electronics Celebrates 20 Years of Serving the Laundry Industry
Mountain Electronics is celebrating its 20th year of repairing electronic circuit boards for the commercial laundry industry. Despite the company’s long and successful history, some fundamental business practices have remained the same through the years – including...
Making the Most of Mobile Billboards
Eight Tips for Creating a Successful Transit Advertising Program One of my favorite ways to market vended laundries is via the mobile billboard. Mobile billboards – on buses, trucks, delivery vans, taxis and light rail trains – can advertise in places where stationary...
Wash-Dry-Fold: Neutralizing pH Levels
I do a lot of drop-off laundry at my store. In the past, you’ve suggested using a built detergent for heavily stained and/or oily items. I took your advice, and the wash-dry-fold garments are definitely getting clean – but some of them are coming out stiff and...
Good for the Community, Good for Business
For two days this past March, the somewhat esoteric worlds of early-childhood education and library science intersected with the pragmatic, bottom-line business of laundromat ownership. Strange bedfellows, indeed. It’s a partnership that, at first glance, maybe...
The Perfect Complement?
Here’s How Linen Rental Can Be a Profitable Addition to Your Full-Service Laundry Business One of the easier and more profitable opportunities for vended laundry owners who service commercial accounts – which a number of operators, including myself, have ventured into...
BCC Payments Names VP of Route Sales, Distributor Relations
BCC Payments, a provider of laundry payment systems, has hired Mark Sperry as vice president of route sales and distributor relations. Sperry has been brought on board to further empower the company’s customer relationships and to provide efficient solutions to their...
EVI Industries to Acquire Professional Laundry Systems, Affiliates
EVI Industries Inc., a commercial laundry distributor headquartered in Miami, recently announced that it has executed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of Commercial Laundry Products Inc., Professional...
WASH Bolsters Midwest Operations
WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems, headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., recently named Jaime Crawford its director of business development, Midwest sales. In addition, the company has hired Amanda Hedglen as its district sales manager in Detroit. “WASH is entering a...
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This Month's Issue
- The Power of Promotions: Unleashing Creative Tactics to Keep Your Business Buzzing
- Digital Marketing: Six Strategies to Help Boost Your Business Without Breaking the Bank
- Business Profile: Modern Design and a Strong Community Focus Define New Jersey’s Bubbles Are Us Laundromats
- Industry Education: CLA’s WDF Workshop Enjoys Record Attendance in Nashville
- And More…
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Industry News
HappyNest Adds Customer Service Manager
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has named Alexandria Messom as manager, customer success. Messom previously served as team lead, customer onboarding at custom sports apparel provider, SquadLocker. “Our customers’ happiness is of utmost importance, as...
Starchup, Drop Locker to Merge, Forming SUD Systems
Starchup and Laundry Locker, Inc. (dba Drop Locker) have entered into an agreement to merge the two companies into a new single entity – SUD Systems, LLC. Effective immediately, the two companies will begin to operate as a unified team, sharing the best from each...
Rinse Acquires ButlerBox
Rinse, a national brand in drycleaning and laundry delivery, has acquired ButlerBox, a Los Angeles-based drycleaning and laundry provider specializing in locker-based services with multifamily and commercial office partners. ButlerBox is the latest in a series of...
Clean Ventures, Mr Jeff Team Up to Bring Franchise to U.S. Laundromats
Mr Jeff, an international laundry service franchise, has signed an agreement with Clean Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in growth-stage laundry companies, to help grow the franchise’s expansion within the U.S. Clean Ventures is managed by industry...
GNA Promotes Pollnow, Willman
Girbau North America has announced two promotions within the company. Brennan Pollnow has been named North American business manager, Girbau Industrial brand, and Tyler Willman has been promoted to regional business development manager – Canada and Northwestern U.S....
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The Business Mind
Dealing with Change (No Matter What Life Throws at You)
Change is Omnipresent, and It's Not Going Away - Embrace It! "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Dr. Viktor Frankl, noted Austrian psychiatrist Did you know that the word "change"is one of the most commonly used...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Hair Dye Stains
One of my commercial accounts is a hair salon. Can you tell me the best way to remove dark hair dye from the white towels my client brings to me? Hair dye can be a real problem because different manufacturers use different types of bases for dyes. Some use a metallic...
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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 Brian@coinlaundry.org or call (630) 491-0499.
