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Episode description
Kevin DuBois is the CEO of Clean Brands. A Franchise company that operates in the DryCleaning and Laundry space and has a portfolio of brands that include: Martinizing Cleaners, Lapels Cleaners, 1800 Dry Clean, Pressed 4 Time and Dry Cleaning Station. They have stores in 7 countries with nearly 500 units across the world.
Clean Brands is a multi-brand franchising company in the garment care space which includes dry cleaning, laundry, laundromats and all things garment cleaning!
Their mission to define “The Future of Dry Cleaning®” started in 2000 with the formation of Lapels® Dry Cleaning. Lapels was founded on the principles of cleaning garments in the most environmentally friendly manner, within a high-end “boutique” style atmosphere. We aspire to bring successful, environmentally conscious entrepreneurs into what had been considered a tired industry and build a new breed of dry cleaning and laundry professionals. We take local business owners – operating neighborhood cleaners – and back them with the power of an International Franchising arm that provides marketing and operations support to them.
In 2021, Lapels acquired Martinizing Dry Cleaning, Pressed4Time, 1-800-Dry-Cleaning, Dry Cleaning Station and BizzieBox. These brands all share one common theme: To be recognized as the industry leader in garment care and to capitalize on the foundation that originated in 2000. They look to leverage the size and scope of their footprint with Innovative technology and marketing initiatives that continue to grow their collective brands and redefine The Future of Garment Care!
Transcript
This is iHeartMedia's CEOs you should know, sponsored by Comcast Business Powering Possibilities. From the foundation of the build at
Lapel's Cleaners in two thousand, we were really focused on doing better by the
environment. I am Kevin Dubois, CEO of Clean Brands. What we offer
at the end of the day is a one hundred percent sustainable, one hundred
percent non toxic dry cleaning and laundry experience. We were building our stores different today
and washing and fold. It's a
specific customers clothing and a load of
wash and dry. So yeah, we now put different types of washers and
dryers in those stores just for the washingful. We've also just introduced Lapel's Laundromat.
Our stores have so much laundry coming in that we'd rather own the laundromat
and send our laundry out to our own laundromat at the same time having dry
cleaning pickup and delivery inside that laundromat.
We're very cognizant about today's customer,
and we're just as cognizant about tomorrow's customer. They don't recognize the difference between laundry
and dry cleaning, and quite honestly,
we don't need them to. We've
built a proven business model in the franchise space, and we're putting people
in business in the dry cleaning and laundry industry that probably hadn't thought about being
in this industry before that they can have a trusted partner in the franchise or
an industry that's going to be around for a long time. CEOs You Should
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