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March 14, 2013
Restoration Services: When Disaster Strikes (Part 2)

CHICAGO — Long an offshoot, restoration has come into its own as add-on that can eclipse core dry cleaning business

CHICAGO — A late-night fire scorches a two-story home, but firefighters are able to douse the flames before the structure is destroyed. Still, the smoke and water damage is extensive. Now, in his time of greatest need, the homeowner turns to his insurance company to begin the process of getting his family’s lives back to normal.

So, who does the insurance provider turn to at a time like this? It’ll call in contractors to see about repairing and/or rebuilding the structure, but before that can happen, something has to be done about the family’s personal belongings. Can they be saved? Are they worth saving?

That’s when the smart adjuster calls in a dry cleaner that specializes in restoring garments and soft goods. Long an offshoot of dry cleaning, restoration has come into its own as the add-on that can easily eclipse the core business.

January 21, 2013
Entrepreneur Launches New Convenience-Centric Dry Cleaning Brand

DETROIT — Mobile technology combines with locker service to save busy consumers time: Wudyka

DETROIT — Wayne Wudyka, owner of 1-800-DryClean, has launched a new franchise brand—bizzie—which he believes will revolutionize the dry cleaning industry through patented technology and customer convenience.

The all-in-one cleaning solution combines state-of-the-art mobile technology with a convenient locker service. Its three-pronged consumer platform offers home/office laundry pickup and delivery, locker-based delivery, and on-location cleaning for window treatments and upholstery to save busy consumers time.

The on-site lockers, or “bizzie boxes,” operate using smart phone technology and will be installed across the United States and Canada in office buildings, residential communities, multifamily residences and parking structures, according to Wudyka.

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.”

August 30, 2010
Inc. Names CRDN to Fastest-Growing List Again

BERKLEY, Mich. — For the fourth year in a row, Inc. magazine named the Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN) one of America’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies. Founded in 2001, CRDN has reported double-digit revenue growth every year.

December 21, 2009
Entrepreneur Magazine Names CRDN No. 1 in Drycleaning, Delivery Services

BERKLEY, Mich. — Entrepreneur magazine has named the Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN) the No. 1 Franchise in the “Dry Cleaning & Delivery Services” category of its 31st Annual Franchise 500.

January 14, 2008
CRDN Founders Buy The Company

BERKLEY, Mich. — Wayne Wudyka, founder and chief executive officer of the Certified Restoration Drycleaning Network (CRDN), has completed the purchase of the outstanding interest in the company with business partners Jeffrey Snyder and Edwin Wudyka. The three now have full ownership of the international textile-restoration company.

January 6, 2008
Urban Renewal: Inside The Winner of Best Plant Design

NEW YORK — After years of searching in one of the highest-priced real estate markets in the nation, Meurice Garment Care operator Wayne Edelman got an unexpected call from his broker. There was a building available in the Bronx that might be able to house a large drycleaning plant. Edelman immediately got up from his desk and went to meet the broker.

January 1, 2008
Water, Fire And Flood

Drycleaners are emerging as a niche for industrial laundry-equipment manufacturers and distributors, since a growing percentage of items funneled through progressive plants are now wetcleaned — often with superior results.

The industry is searching for safer cleaning alternatives, having been hammered by environmental regulations on the use of perchloroethylene, rising insurance premiums and increasing labor costs, says Mike (Stucky) Szczotka of Eagle Star Equipment in Troy, Mich.