Arrow Linen Supply Co. Inc., New York, recently was featured in Business View magazine, a digital publication that covers the latest developments in manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, supply chain and logistics, healthcare, food and beverage and energy.
A Nov. 9 TRSA virtual roundtable enabled about 50 next-generation industry executives to share their companies’ experience in strategic planning and employee professional development, reflecting these disciplines’ importance to ensuring a bright future for linen, uniform and facility services companies and their supplier partners.
The TRSA Board of Directors and Strategic Planning Committee have identified enhancement of the Hygienically Clean and Clean Green certification programs as a priority initiative over the next three years. Addressing increased demand for these and potential new certifications, efforts will be made to streamline and improve administration and inspection processes to increase their efficiency and rigor, better reflecting industry best practices.
A new panel discussion, composed of five CEOs representing leading North American operators, has been added to the agenda for the 2023 Leadership Summit, scheduled for June 13-15 at the Hyatt Lodge in Oak Brook, IL, on the outskirts of Chicago.
Task forces to support the industry’s efforts in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), facility services, information technology and risk management will join the stable of standing TRSA committees in 2023. The new groups add to the range of opportunities for members to collaborate with industry colleagues – both laundry operator and supplier partner members – who share common issues and interests, such as those associated with their specific professions or market segments (laundry user industries).
More than 300 individuals from linen, uniform and facility services companies and supplier partners responded this summer to a TRSA survey to guide the association’s activities and communications. Results highlighted the need to remain focused on issues related to workforce, cost containment and growth, and identified Textile Services magazine among TRSA media channels as providing the most value.
TRSA will host the Fifth Annual Marketing & Sales Summit this Oct. 25-26 in Tampa, FL. To gather impactful content for the Summit, committee members developed a one-question survey to find out which topics would be beneficial for marketing and sales teams.
In an article slated for the July/August Clean Show double issue of Textile Services, consultant Bruce Hodes reflects on how companies can overcome adversity by embracing – rather than resisting – the reality of crises like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mike Paton, the best-selling co-author of Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business and a well-known practitioner of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), will address TRSA’s Oct. 19-21 Annual Conference in Carlsbad, CA, on Oct. 20. To offer attendees and prospects a taste of what they’ll hear in Carlsbad, we put a few questions to Paton regarding EOS and how it helps companies achieve stable growth.
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.
