Lapels Popping Up Everywhere There have been several news stories come across my desk in the last week or so, headline reading, "Lapels Opens New Location". This is great new for the dry cleaning industy, and we are happy to see our friends at Lapels continuing...
Blue and Green can be seen! How one company is looking at a Green solution for a typically blue product, by Sustainability Director Garry Knox. Earlier this year I wrote a blog about the average consumer water footprint and what the main contributory factors were and that...
"Lapels Dry Cleaning Opens Another Massachusetts Store" Owner says Kingston store is southernmost in state KINGSTON, Mass. — The Lapels Dry Cleaning franchise opened a store here earlier this month at 150 Summer St. in a location previously known as Kingston Dry Cleaners....
The New Retail - Where will your next Drycleaning Location be? By: Tim Maxwell With 2015 looking like a year of net sale increases for drycleaners reporting to the American Drycleaner Magazine's "Statshots" feature, it appears that the downward trend in sales that many businesses in drycleaning...
The Digital World Part II By:Aaron Newport We have all seen them, popping up here and there. It seems like every other week I read about a new Dry Cleaning app that has just hit the surface; Washio, Starchup, Rinse, Dhobie, DRYV, and that is just to...
AURORA, Colo. - There is a new way to save green, while going green at the same time. $1.99 Any Garment Cleaners on South Parker Road in Aurora says they are changing the dry-cleaning industry one shirt at a time. "There's no odor. You come into...
“Minding Your Own Business” By Joe Blaha. I happened to be reading the summer newsletter from the PDCA (Pennsylvania and Delaware Cleaners Association) and came across a column (with the title I borrowed above), written by Ricardo Gonzalez, the DLI (Drycleaning and Laundry Institute) Web Developer....
Are British Retailers Starting to See Green? By Garry Knox The annual Technical Visit to Johnson Cleaners organised by the ASBCI for its members has always been a popular and exciting day on the ASBCI event calendar and this year was no exception. This year I...
Fairfax location offers home/office pickup/delivery as well as locker-based option FAIRFAX, Va. — The newest Martinizing Dry Cleaning store has opened here in northern Virginia. Offering multiple options for service and open six days a week, the store is owned by John W. Gray IV, who...
Modeling Limitations By: Ron Benjamin It is fairly simple to define the term “environmentally non-toxic”. That would be something that does not harm the environment. What’s not so simple, though, is to measure whether something is environmentally non-toxic or not. For toxicity depends on dosage....