When you grow up in our industry, what’s a vacation without visiting a local dry cleaner in the area? With our first ‘real’ March Break in two years,

There are lots of moving parts involved in a dry cleaning or laundry plant. And at the end of a long day, it's easy to overlook something when

C&K Courtesy Cleaners Ltd., in Surrey, BC, is owned by partners Charlotte Morton and Khanh Chau. They purchased an existing business in 1990, which had only been open

It doesn't matter what you think of the styles your customers wear, are you ready to clean them? As a textile care professional, having a finger on the

We may have come through a doldrums as the pandemic kept many people at home for the past few years, but that doesn't mean technology hasn't marched on.

Whether you are busy or slow, your padding is getting worse every day. Fabrics break down and tear. Pads get hard. Touch-ups increase. Padding is not meant to

What are 'social media influencers', what do they do, and how can you determine if joining forces with one might improve your marketing?

Did you know that every time you put a garment on the conveyor belt or rack, you're handling history? Just for fun, let's look at the checkered past

Let’s face it, as important and useful as a garment cleaning service is, it’s not exactly something people talk about when asked for a list of their favourite

Looking back at my December column for 2020, I could almost cut-and-paste it again here. That was not what was supposed to happen.