Produced by the Industrial, Uniform & Workwear Committee, TRSA’s Nov. 7 virtual Market Sector Conversations will prompt you to consider how four major business challenges have shaped your career and personal development, and will continue to do so. As you discuss these issues’ impact on the industry’s service to its key customer industry markets (F&B/Hospitality, Healthcare and Industrial), regardless of your professional role, you’ll benefit from the experience-sharing and idea exchange.
“The idea is to get everyone talking in each market session,” said Tim Fry, committee chair, CVR Uniforms, Shippensburg, PA. “These issues affect everyone in business and particularly our industry, although somewhat differently in serving different customer markets. So we have separate discussions on each. But you don’t have to be experienced in any market to contribute to the discussion dedicated to it. Whether you’re an operator or supplier, new to the industry or experienced in it, you’ll be helpful by drawing from your own business or personal experience.”
Fry will facilitate the industrial conversation. Other committee members serving as facilitators include Steve Royals, Performance Matters, High Point, NC (hospitality); Jay Sevier, Alliant Systems, Irving, TX (healthcare); and Bob Mazur, Regent Apparel, Chicago (F&B/restaurant).
Issues to be considered for each of these segments:
Sustainability. Your thoughts on how much business buyers really care about environmental protection; to what degree claims of environmental friendliness should be regulated; sustainability as a broader concept applied to linen and uniform service than preventing natural resources depletion, e.g., the industry’s continued success in each customer industry, small business survival and corporate social responsibility.
Energy. Your business’s latest conservation efforts; how you view renewable energy; technology developments that have improved your company’s efficiency; tracking use to determine how to optimize; practices, machinery and supplies that conserve; and conservation as sales promotion.
Service. What makes it exceptional; impact of labor shortage on getting it right; overcoming supply-chain issues that impact customer retention; measuring customer satisfaction; and textile loss/abuse.
Material-Handling Safety. Your experience with pushing, pulling and lifting in any job you’ve had or supervised; training to avoid injuries; and recovering from them. Emphasis on route work: loading and unloading, drivers’ personal discretion and two on a truck.
Click here to register for the roundtable. Participation is free to employees of TRSA member companies; representatives of nonmember linen and uniform service companies pay $45.
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October 27, 2023
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