The 2015 edition of TRSA’s Industry Performance Report has good news for operators in its one-of-a-kind benchmarking study of the textile services industry. To wit, sales and profit margins grew over comparable numbers recorded in last year’s report, while productivity and cost-control figures also showed improvement over the 2014 edition.
 
Specifically, the median TRSA textile services provider recorded in the 2015 report (based on 2014 data) grew sales by 5.2% vs. 3.6% as documented in the 2014 report (based on 2013 data). On the expense side, plant and delivery expenses were lower as a percentage of sales ...