For food-and-beverage (F&B) laundry operators battered by three years of COVID-driven dining downturns, Morgan Service’s Cleveland plant is showing the way forward, a tale that’s detailed in September’s Textile Services magazine.
In line with an emerging trend among customer-owned goods (COG) hotel laundries to serve select customers with their own RFID-tagged linen, a Washington area operation recently reintroduced this RFID technology, along with a number of other equipment upgrades.
Textile Services Weekly recently toured several plants near Vancouver, BC, Canada, including K-Bro Linen Systems Inc.’s newest laundry facility in Burnaby, which focuses on minimizing textile “touchpoints” through automation wherever possible as part of a drive to achieve the highest level of infection-prevention control (IPC), safety and efficiency.
K-Bro Linen Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, recently announced that it has completed its acquisition of Buanderie C.M. Inc. (“C.M.”) for an enterprise value of $12 million, on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The transaction includes the real estate for C.M.’s processing and storage facilities located in North Montréal.
Robert W. Baird & Co. recently released the results of its Second-Quarter 2024 Textile Rental Services Survey. Revenue growth expectations trended higher than last quarter on the uniform rental side of the business, while this metric remained stable in the linen rental survey.
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) recently submitted a Congressional Record (CR) to honor Continental Linen Services’ (CLS) 125th anniversary.
On a recent tour of Textile Care in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Textile Services Weekly saw a massive, multilevel, high-tech hospitality laundry in the heart of Europe.
K-Bro Linen Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, recently acquired Shortridge Ltd., a high-end hospitality laundry provider based in Northwest England, expanding K-Bro’s geographic footprint in the £1.4 billion ($1.76 billion) UK commercial laundry and textile rental market. K-Bro also owns Fishers Laundry Group, the commercial laundry and textile rental provider covering Scotland and Northeast England, which it acquired in 2017.
For Gabriel Mandujano, CEO of Wash Cycle Laundry, a Philadelphia-based operator that opened a new plant last year in Boston, growth in the area’s hotel market represents a welcome recovery from the recent pandemic-driven slowdown.
K-Bro Linen Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has announced an agreement to enter into a three-year, $175 million revolving credit facility, according to a news release.
