’Tis the season for housekeeping firms to clean up

Turkey stuffed? Check. Pumpkin pie baked? Yes. House cleaned? Oops. Many cleaning businesses, some in a lull after the busy summer season, today are in a holiday dash, answering last-minute requests from harried customers. “We do typically get a rush before the holidays and we try to accommodate,” says Dee Stahl, owner of a Merry [...]

Clermont Dryer Vent Cleaning Wizard a Force for Neighborhood Safety

The Clermont Dryer Vent Cleaning Wizard is a force for fire prevention as he goes out into his community to make clothes dryers safer and greener while raising consumer awareness about the urgency of cleaning dryer vents. Robert Moore, owner of Dryer Vent Wizard is a local hero who served in Desert Storm, defending our [...]

Mark aims to clean up for cancer charity

MARK Church will have his work cut out this month as he bids to raise vital cash for a charity that’s particularly relevant to his own family. He’s business owner of Ovenu, an oven cleaning and valeting franchise in North Somerset, and has pledged to donate £5 from every household oven he cleans and valets [...]

Tide Dry Cleaners Expands Franchise System; Opens Location In Roswell, Georgia

NDC Group, LLC, in collaboration with Procter & Gamble (P&G), is opening a Tide Dry Cleaners® store in Roswell, Ga., the Atlanta area’s second location. The store applies Tide’s 60 years of fabric-care experience, GreenEarth® cleaning technology and drive-thru valet service to meet customers’ needs. “We are so excited to give the people of Roswell [...]

Tide Dry Cleaners Expands Franchise System, Opens Location In Scottsdale

Panda Dry Cleaners, LLC, in collaboration with Procter & Gamble (P&G), opened a Tide Dry Cleaners® store in Scottsdale, AZ, the Phoenix area’s second location. The store applies Tide’s 60 years of fabric-care experience, GreenEarth® cleaning technology and concierge services to meet customers’ needs. “Now, the people of Scottsdale get to experience the value of [...]

Coverall Health-Based Cleaning System® named to “50 Top Franchises for Minorities” list for 6th year in a row

For the sixth consecutive year, Coverall Health-Based Cleaning System®, a leading franchisor of commercial cleaning businesses, has been named one of the “50 Top Franchises for Minorities” by the National Minority Franchising Initiative (NMFI). The NMFI evaluated hundreds of franchisors to determine the top companies. Rankings were based on a variety of data, including the [...]

Young entrepeneur hoping to clean up in Hillingdon

A YOUNG Uxbridge man who struggled to find work has set up his own franchise business. Richard Charalambides, 22, is less than half the age of the typical franchisee. He now owns and operates Ovenu, the Uxbridge-based valeting business, which he set up after struggling to find permanent full-time work. Richard said: “The support and [...]

Catholic couple brings commercial cleaning service to Utah

Tom and Carol Richter bought a franchise from Jan-Pro International in 1995 and brought the commercial cleaning business to Utah. “Salt Lake City was the 12th city to start with Jan-Pro,” said Tom Richter. “Jan-Pro International Cleaning Systems started in 1991, and are now in over 100 cities in 10 countries with over 10,000 franchises [...]

Chem-Dry Carpet Cleaning Franchise Welcomes Texas, Georgia, Connecticut Partners

Chem-Dry, the world’s largest carpet cleaning company and a highly rated franchise system, welcomes five new franchise partners in three target locations: suburban Atlanta; Hartford, Conn.; and Fort Worth, Texas. “These three areas are ideal locations for new Chem-Dry franchise owners,” said Dan Tarantin, president and CEO of Harris Research Inc., Chem-Dry’s parent company. “We [...]

Dry cleaning franchise is exciting project for local family: Lapels offers high quality at low price

Dry cleaning may not sound like a thrilling business but for Jeff Kline and his wife, Tanya, it was just the kind of project they were excited to get started. “I’m very much a project oriented person,” Kline said. “My background is in aerospace engineering and program managing and organizing and building big teams to [...]

Servicing the catering industry

Summary of operation FiltaFry Plus is a mobile, onsite service for the microfiltration of cooking oils and vacuum cleaning of deep fat fryers and the supply of kitchen hygiene products and services. By using the service, customers can reduce frying costs, keep fryers hygienically clean and improve food quality. Ideal franchise owner Franchise owner technicians [...]

New Franchise Opportunities Abound in New York City

Long Island, NY New franchise opportunities are plentiful and New York franchise consultant, John Ryley is making a difference for budding entrepreneurs. His clients have entered the world of franchising starting new businesses like home based businesses, van or vehicle based franchises, business service providers and home service providers like pressure cleaning businesses or dryer [...]

Crewe entrepreneur celebrates cleaning franchise success

A CREWE entrepreneur is celebrating after his cleaning franchise became the UK’s biggest provider of work for domestic cleaners. Maid2Clean now has more than 13,000 cleaners across the UK – eclipsing its rivals and also business giants such as Shell UK. Mike Hanrahan, who is originally from Crewe, is the owner of Maid2Clean. He said: [...]

YOUR MONEY-Franchising picks up in U.S., but hurdles remain

Robert Penney has seen his financial future and it involves heaps of frozen yogurt. Penney and his wife, Dayna, purchased a Menchie’s franchise, offering self-serve frozen yogurt, in Bellingham, Washington, in July 2011. They expect the business, open since April, to be profitable its first year. It better be. “We basically had to put our [...]

Latest Daily Poppins franchise owner launches business

Cleaning franchise Daily Poppins has recruited another franchise owner to its network. Still in his early 20s Pardip Thandi, who is based in Walsall, now owns the Daily Poppins North East Birmingham territory. He said: “My father has quite a large taxi business and he has been a major influence on my thinking. Since I [...]

Chemex launches new financial package to help budding franchise owners

To help prospective franchise owners buy a Chemex franchise territory, the company has introduced a new financial package. Chemex, which provides cleaning and hygiene products, has introduced a lower franchise purchase price and is offering 100 per cent finance to new franchise owners. Now a Chemex franchise can be purchased for just £19,995, which provides [...]

Tide Dry Cleaners opens Georgia store

The Tide Dry Cleaners franchise moved into Georgia in August as the NDC group, in collaboration with Procter & Gamble, opened a store in Duluth near Atlanta. Customers can use the store’s drive-through concierge services and the Tide Dry Cleaners Anytime service allows garments to be dropped-off or collected 24 hours a day. Tide Drycleaners [...]

From the Citi Open to D.C. embassies, Anago franchise owner oversees cleanings

Darren Williams was working as a stock broker in Atlanta when he came across a calling that seemed much more lucrative: janitorial services. “I thought, ‘We’re paying someone $30,000 or $40,000 a month to get this building clean?,’?” he said. “That amount of money caught my attention.” A few years later, Williams packed a U-Haul [...]

Maid2Clean has become the first domestic cleaning franchise in the UK to offer a professional qualification in cleaning.

The qualification, MaidVersity, is the only training programme to specialise in domestic cleaning and has been developed in conjunction with the British Institute of Cleaning Sciences. Mike Hanrahan, owner of Maid2Clean, said: “This qualification will give our staff the recognition they deserve. We want our cleaners to be proud of the industry they are part [...]

360clean Introduces New Franchisee Training Portal

360clean, the innovative leader of the janitorial service industry that specializes in medical offices, announced it will be introducing a new training portal specifically designed for 360clean franchisees to train their employees. “The main objective is to provide the 360clean franchisees a portal that contains video and tests for training their employees. This also provides [...]

Window Genie Opens New Franchise in Raleigh, NC on July 30

Window Genie is a national franchise offering home services to both residential and commercial customers. With the slogan, “We Clean Windows and a Whole Lot More!” their services include window cleaning and tinting, gutter cleaning and protection and pressure washing. The company was founded in 1994 by Richard Nonelle and has since grown to almost [...]

Build your business with Dublcheck

Before joining commercial cleaning franchise Dublcheck in 2009, Mark Sanchez-Garcia enjoyed a successful career within the sales and service sector. However, after being made redundant from his role as National Account Manager at a security firm, he decided to pursue his ambition of running his own business. Mark had become frustrated with the lack of [...]

New TruBlue House Care Franchise Simplifies Property Maintenance for Michigan Homeowners

TruBlue House Care is bringing its new concept in hassle-free living to Michigan homeowners and property managers with the opening of Mike Burch’s franchise to serve West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, Rochester Hills, Birmingham, Farmington Hills and their surrounding communities just west of Detroit. TruBlue reduces the time and stress of house maintenance with its Total [...]

Anago’s Two Military Veteran Leaders Create $250,000 Veteran Franchise Fund to Help More Veterans Enter Business Ownership

Anago Cleaning Systems (Anago), a leading commercial cleaning franchise system with more than 2,200 locations throughout the U.S. and internationally, continues its mission of providing returning veterans the opportunity to start their own business and follow their entrepreneurial spirit by creating a $250,000 military veteran fund to help more veterans get into business for themselves. [...]

Classic Commercial Services Launches A Commercial Cleaning Franchise Model

Classic Commercial Services has announced they will be launching an aggressive expansion program through franchising. The Classic Commercial Services brand was developed originally in the Atlanta, Georgia market by Randy Longenbach in 1973. Over the past 39 years, the organization has established itself as the leaders throughout the Southeastern U.S. in commercial cleaning and restoration [...]