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November 1, 2012
Making Best Use of Your Time

PEMBROKE, Mass. — Squeeze out an hour a day for reflection, future strategy, and employee education

PEMBROKE, Mass. — Time—how do you manage it? Seems like a pretty basic question, doesn’t it? “I go in, ready the store, see a few customers, and then go from one matter to another until the day is over, and I have a few minutes to pay bills or call customers before I go home.”

It's possible your time could be managed better, more efficiently, more economically. Perhaps you could squeeze out an hour every day for reflection, future strategy, and employee education. Wouldn’t that be something!

At the end of a workday, review that day's actions. What portion did you spend profitably? By profitably, I mean that your time spent contributed to the flow of your concern. What portion of the day was spent unprofitably? What portion was spent doing the work?

That is, did you press for two hours, relieve the cleaner for two hours, and work the counter for an hour? If so, five hours out of eight or nine was spent on the assembly line. Maybe 60% of your time is spent processing.

August 22, 2011
CRDN Preferred Extreme Makeover Vendor for Sixth Straight Year

BERKELEY, Mich. — The Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN) has been named a season-long preferred vendor for the award-winning ABC-TV series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for a sixth consecutive year, CRDN says. Its geographic coverage and extensive experience assisting homeowners by restoring garments and other fabric items has made CRDN the perfect partner for Extreme Makeover, entering its ninth season.

“We are extremely proud of the commitment of CRDN members across the United States to continue to contribute in many ways to each local community where we live and work,” says CEO Wayne Wudyka. “Our members are very charitable year after year, through coat drives, service projects and financial support of meaningful activities. The opportunity to help Extreme Makeover: Home Edition provide a fresh start for so many deserving families, now more than 105 over the past six years, has been a natural fit for us.”

December 20, 2010
CRDN Completes 100th ‘Extreme Makeover’

BERKLEY, Mich. — When TV star Ty Pennington gave his trademark direction to “Move that bus” to reveal a newly-built home one recent afternoon, it represented a fresh start for a wounded soldier and his new bride, compliments of ABC-TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The weeklong project in Salado, Texas, also marked the completion of the 100th episode of the show for the Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN).

June 29, 2010
CRDN Preferred for Extreme Home Makeovers

BERKLEY, Mich. — The Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN) has been named a preferred vendor for the eighth season of ABC's popular television series, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." CRDN has participated in 87 episodes of the series over the past four years.

June 9, 2008
Discovery Channel Show Featuring Dexter Laundry to Air Wednesday

FAIRFIELD, Iowa — Dexter Laundry’s T-1200 commercial washer will star in a cable television show, Factory Made, this week. The new Discovery Channel series visits factories worldwide to find out how familiar products are manufactured.

A crew of four visited Dexter’s headquarters here in March for three days of filming in Dexter Laundry’s manufacturing facility and its foundry, which produces gray and ductile iron castings, including several components in Dexter washers.

October 10, 2007
Dallas Cleaners Shoot Would-Be Robber to Death

DALLAS — The operators of Joe’s Cleaners in Dallas, Texas, foiled a robbery at their store Monday, shooting the suspect to death.

A man entered Joe’s plant smelling of alcohol, owner Joseph Baggett told police, and left again immediately. A few minutes later, the suspect reappeared holding a gun.

Baggett told the man to take the money from the register, but the suspect ordered him to go to the back of the plant at gunpoint upon seeing Baggett’s wife there.

September 5, 2007
Two Influential Operators Pass Away

CHICAGO, Ill. — Two longtime industry operators, Bobby Landers and Charles Grant, passed away over the summer. Both were active and influential in the industry and will be missed by family and friends.

Robert Daniell “Bobby” Landers passed away early this summer at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He was 72.

August 1, 2007
Hemsley Cleans Up in Back to The Grind

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Sherman Hemsley, famous for portraying drycleaner George Jefferson in the long-running ’70s sitcom The Jeffersons, returned to the small screen last week to try his hand at the job on the reality TV show Back to The Grind.