The European Textile Services Association (ETSA) recently elected Andreas Holzer as its new president for the next three years. Holzer, a member of the business management team of the Bardusch Group, is taking over the role from Thomas Krautschneider, CEO of the Austrian company Salesianer. ETSA members held their first meeting under Holzer on Sept. 8, according to a news release.

PureStar™, a hospitality operator, recently announced its formal recognition of International Housekeepers Week (Sept. 13-19) as a way to honor hotel housekeepers for the vital role they play in the hospitality industry.

TRSA operator member Taylor Linen Services, Andalusia, AL, recently detailed in a recent news article how it went from providing reusable masks for the safety of its employees to providing the service to local businesses.

TRSA offices will remain closed on Monday, Sept. 7, in observance of Labor Day.

The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) recently released an analysis on the economic and human struggle of the hotel industry six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of employees still furloughed or laid off and travel demand lagging far behind normal levels. 

The Spokane, WA, branch of Alsco Inc. recently donated $3,000 to Big Table, a nonprofit focused on helping workers in the restaurant and hospitality industry, according to a news release.

Close your eyes for a second. Now imagine life after the crisis of COVID-19 has passed. It could come in the near term as quickly as it arrived back in March. Will you and your business be ready? October’s issue of Textile Services magazine will offer insights from a leading emergency-planning consultant on how companies should respond once the current crisis ends and how they can prepare for future “slow-onset” crises like pandemics. The following passage contains excerpts from the forthcoming article, “Life After COVID-19, Where Do We Go from Here?”

For the past several years, TRSA’s hosting of Executive Exchanges for its operator members and associate supplier partners have been consistently praised as an efficient use of resources by those on both sides of the meeting table. This fall, TRSA is offering an online version of the Executive Exchange to its members on a first-come, first-served basis during Oct. 27-28 – just in time for 2021 planning.

UniFirst Corp., Wilmington, MA, recently was included for the second year in a row on Barron’s third annual list of the 100 Most Sustainable Companies in the U.S.