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August 10, 2011
Management Strategies: Face of Your Company

SAN FRANCISCO — Generally speaking, smaller drycleaning stores hire babysitters. Wikipedia defines babysitting as “the practice of temporarily caring for a child on behalf of the child’s parents. Babysitting is commonly performed as an odd job by teenagers for extra money.”

The key words here are “temporary” and “odd job.” These characteristics may be acceptable for hiring babysitters. You have no expectations for a long-term relationship, and there is really no loyalty nor motivation on either side to learn the finite details of the household. They are unacceptable for the drycleaner hiring front-counter staff.

Temporary child-care helpers are poor substitutes for parents. Parents care and foster the successes of their children. They are involved in all important aspects of the children’s activities.

Babysitters are not “bad.” They generally provide a safe, secure environment for short periods of time. There are no expectations that they will do more. No love or compassion is required, and, generally, no long-term relationship is established.

August 16, 2010
Canadian Chain Introduces Plastic Suit

TORONTO — Tip Top Tailors, Canada’s No. 1 men’s specialty store, launched its high-tech EcoGir collection last week, the world’s only line of tailored suits made from recycled plastic bottles.

Sold under the Belissimo label, the wash-and-wear suits come out of the dryer ready for the office, the company says. “The money saved on drycleaning will virtually pay for the suit.”

December 17, 2008
Wise Investors Stray from the Herd

When it comes to investing money, human nature likes to play tricks on us. When the stock market is reaching new highs, we can’t wait to jump in. When it stumbles and falls, we stop investing — or worse, start selling.

As a result, the typical investor tends to buy “high” and sell “low” — the opposite of a profitable investment strategy. But in spite of the lessons of the past, that inner voice keeps urging us to follow the crowd.

November 7, 2007
Professionalism Is the Real Alternative

Let’s look at how many “alternatives” we have for cleaning clothes: There is perc, hydrocarbon, GreenEarth, Rynex and liquid CO2. Wetcleaning, Dry-Wetcleaning and other options are available. But you’ve heard that word—“alternative”—tossed around for years.

March 28, 2007
Special Honors Winners Built for Speed, More

Runners-up in American Drycleaner's 46th Annual Plant Design Awards showcase production, quality and positioning

January 27, 2007
'Crazy' Design Doesn't Clown Around

Industry veteran Spencer Nix didn’t set out to build a traditional Mom-and-Pop or boutique plant. A former member of America’s Best Cleaners (ABC), a marketing consortium of high-end cleaners, he had been there and done that. “We’re skinning the cat in a different way,” Nix says. “And it works.”

January 15, 2007
'Crazy' Design Doesn't Clown Around

Crazy Cleanerz Laughs All The Way to The Bank withIts High-Volume, One-Price Plant, Taking The Grand Prize in The 46th Annual Plant Design Awards

Industry veteran Spencer Nix didn’t set out to build a traditional Mom-and-Pop or boutique plant. A former member of America’s Best Cleaners (ABC), a marketing consortium of high-end cleaners, he had been there and done that. “We’re skinning the cat in a different way,” Nix says. “And it works.”

January 3, 2007
'Crazy' Design Doesn't Clown Around

Crazy Cleanerz Laughs All The Way to The Bank with Its High-Volume, One-Price Plant, Taking The Grand Prize in The 46th Annual Plant Design Awards

Industry veteran Spencer Nix didn’t set out to build a traditional Mom-and-Pop or boutique plant. A former member of America’s Best Cleaners (ABC), a marketing consortium of high-end cleaners, he had been there and done that. “We’re skinning the cat in a different way,” Nix says. “And it works.”

January 3, 2007
Crazy Cleanerz named Best Plant Design

American Drycleaner has named Crazy Cleanerz in Cordova, Tenn., the Best Plant Design in its 46th Annual Plant Design Awards. The high-volume, low-price plant uses lots of high-tech equipment to take most of the guesswork (and much of the cost) out of processing huge numbers of garments.

January 3, 2007
Crazy Cleanerz Named Best Plant Design

American Drycleaner has named Crazy Cleanerz in Cordova, Tenn., the Best Plant Design in its 46th Annual Plant Design Awards. The high-volume, low-price plant uses lots of high-tech equipment to take most of the guesswork (and much of the cost) out of processing huge numbers of garments.

January 3, 2007
Special Honors winners built for speed, more

Runners-up in American Drycleaner's 46th Annual Plant Design Awards showcase production, quality and positioning