Workwear Outfitters™, Nashville, TN, formerly known as VF Workwear, recently completed its sale to Redwood Capital Investments LLC, according to a news release.

TRSA held its first fully in-person events since February 2020 when it hosted more than 50 linen, uniform and facility services professionals for its July 20-22 Leadership Meetings outside Chicago. The meeting included its Strategic Planning Committee, Next-Generation Executives Workshop and Board of Directors meetings, as well as its first-ever Supplier Partner Council event. The week also included a dinner for all participants, as well as a Top Golf reception.

Laundry owner/operators like Johanna Ames understand the value of having federal or state lawmakers tour their facilities in terms of promoting public-policy goals. What they may sometimes underestimate is the positive impact these visits can have on staff.

UniFirst Corp., Wilmington, MA, recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of its new 64,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art industrial laundry plant in Hammond, IN, according to a news release.

Back and in-person for the 108th Annual Conference, TRSA will host the event Oct. 19-21 at Cape Rey Carlsbad Beach, a Hilton Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, CA. The conference will unite linen, uniform and facility services industry executives that value connecting in-person with a large number of industry peers.

Laundry operators and their customers in Michigan, including restaurants, clinics and manufacturers, soldiered on through the long winter of COVID-19, hoping that by mid-summer they’d see renewed opportunities. Many have, but the state’s recent reopening has brought challenges too.

TRSA’s Supplier Partner Council held its inaugural Supplier Partner Council Workshop during the recent TRSA Leadership Meetings in Oakbrook, IL.

TRSA recently revamped its On-Demand Learning Center with a brand-new experience for users that includes quicker access to completion certificates, an easier login experience, mobile accessibility and more!

Textile Services magazine has received a 2021 APEX Award for Publication Excellence, according to a news release from Communications Concepts Inc., Williamsburg, VA, the sponsor of competition.

TRSA’s first Reopening Tour legs – two 2,500-plus mile road trips with staff driving to meet members – have generated unprecedented information-sharing through personally reporting these meetings’ highlights to members at subsequent stops on each leg and generating social media posts for industry stakeholders to view everywhere as the trips proceeded.