As part of TRSA’s recent Next-Generation Executives network meeting in Chicago, 20-plus leaders of their companies toured the Roscoe Co. plant on the city’s west side. The business is now celebrating its 100th anniversary as a family-owned-and-operated independent industrial laundry (see related story, pg.28).

Julia Buik, a fourth-generation IT team leader at Roscoe, along with her father Jim, the company president, co-led an opening discussion in a meeting room prior to the tour that began at 9 a.m. on June 15. Julia, who’s also active in the Next-Gen group; and Jim, gave the attendees an overview of the business co-founded ...