ImageFIRST, King of Prussia, PA, recently announced that it has acquired Bartlesville, OK-based United Linen & Uniform Services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, according to a news release.
TRSA’s Business Pulse Survey for the first quarter of 2022 indicated that across all market specialties, at least 80% of operators are looking to find new supplier partners (products and/or supplies, parts, etc.) to mitigate ongoing supply-chain shortages. This bodes well for the upcoming Clean Show, slated for July 30-Aug. 2 in Atlanta.
Participating in a TRSA virtual roundtable benefited some 30 members April 6 as the F&B/Hospitality Committee prompted discussion of its highest priority issues for networking and information-sharing.
This year may see the continent-wide return to business travel needed to generate enough hotel guests to restore linen volume to pre-pandemic levels. Watch for more workers to return to their offices, a luxury hotel marketer told a TRSA audience tuned in to TRSA’s Hospitality Virtual Summit & Roundtable on March 16. As this occurs, you’ll note hotels becoming less dependent on rate increases to improve revenues as more guest rooms are filled.
As TRSA recently completed the Florida leg of its Reopening Tour on March 4, the association’s executive leadership team is aware of the challenges, like labor and supply chain issues, that are challenging everyday business decisions for its members. This may impact budgets for travel and professional development or time constraints of being away from the office. Due to these ongoing challenges impacting the linen, uniform and facility services industry, TRSA has decided to offer its March 15 F&B and March 16 Hospitality Virtual Summits for free to all TRSA members, as well as nonmembers.
TRSA will host a pair of three-hour summits, the F&B Virtual Summit & Roundtable on March 15 and the Hospitality Virtual Summit & Roundtable the following day, and will introduce Flexible Felix and Meticulous Maeve, the decision-making personas during each event. The two persona profiles have been developed by Yes&, a marketing agency based in Washington, DC, through consumer and B2B research collected over the past five months as part of TRSA’s Market Recovery and Expansion Research.
Additional recent headlines from consumer media of interest to linen, uniform and facility services operators, and especially readers of Textile Services Weekly.
Due to the increase in cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 and out of concern for the health and safety of our members, speakers and staff, TRSA postponed the Inaugural F&B, Hospitality and Industrial/Workwear Conference originally scheduled for Feb. 2-3 in New Orleans.
Additional recent headlines from consumer media of interest to linen, uniform and facility services operators, and especially readers of Textile Services Weekly.
Additional recent headlines from consumer media of interest to linen, uniform and facility services operators, and especially readers of Textile Services Weekly.
