In 1977 I entered the fabricare business, buying a two-year old package plant in Federal Way, Washington. It was the right time and place, a new building with parking lot, a drive-up window, on a main road in an upscale and growing country-club neighborhood. I joined the Washington Fabricare Association, got active with the Tacoma […]
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Royaltone Has A New Home
For the past couple of decades Royaltone, manufacturer of detergents and spotters for the Dry Clean, Laundry and Leather Cleaning Industry has been located in a small building in an industrial area of Tulsa. After much preparation, study and number crunching is was decided that relocating to Shawnee, Oklahoma 85 miles southwest of Tulsa would […]
Guess Who Is Inspecting Now? – Jackie Smith
Over the last few years, as small business owners, we have found many governmental agencies rearing their heads in the quest of any additional revenue they can find. We have been inspected by city, county and state entities that we may not even know existed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA or CAL/OSHA) usually […]