Laundromat News March 21, 2025

Jordan Berry [00:00:01]:
Welcome to Laundromat News. Today, I am your news anchor bringing you all the stories from around the world, all things Laundromat related, Jordan Barry here with the latest and greatest in the industry. Let’s start off with the big giants in the business. We’ve got a couple of big news stories regarding, some of the manufacturers in this industry. And let’s start with Jabrao and EVI, Industries have created a strategic alliance with one another where EVI Industries, who’s a distributor, is going to, partner with Jabrao that is the manufacturer of Continental, Jabrao and Jabrao North America, to forces alliance in order to help Jabrao with their distribution. And EVI is going to be able to offer their customers products from, from Jabra. Now, one of the, big, I think, implications of all this is that Jabra is going to be able to expand production capacity with the launch of a manufacturing a manufacturing facility in North America. Now I don’t know if, what the implications of this is with all this tariff talks, but seems like an interesting play, to do that in addition to just expanding capacity and bringing some of that manufacturing here onshore in The United States.

Jordan Berry [00:01:28]:
So that’s pretty big news, over there. We’ll keep an eye on that, see if any developments come from that. Let’s move over to Alliance Laundry Systems. Again, Alliance does Speed Queen, Hitch, Unimac, Prime Primus, Ipsos, and etcetera, etcetera. Right? And they are expanding hugely right now. They’re making a huge push to expand in Japan because Japan self serve laundry market is exploding. They’ve got 20,000 stores right now. They’re expected to grow by a thousand every year for the next five or six years, at least.

Jordan Berry [00:02:02]:
So, Elias is really looking to expand its global footprint over there in, in the laundromat market in Japan. So congrats to them, I guess. And, I always like to keep an eye on Japan and what they’re doing technologically speaking, because they always throw curveballs, that I think are interesting, and some of them may work really well over here. So we’ll keep an eye over there in Japan on what’s going on in the laundry market there. One other, a strategic partnership, here is with RW Martin, who’s a distributor here, and they have become the exclusive US distributor of Tallinn. I think it’s Tallinn, T O L O N, Tallinn. And that is a, that is an industrial washing machine. I know that doesn’t directly, go to most laundromats.

Jordan Berry [00:02:53]:
We’re not buying industrial machines for the most part. However, some of us are doing bigger pickup and delivery orders and who are looking to service, you know, hotels, motels, you know, things like that, are using some industrial machines. So I thought I’d shout that one out and that, that partnership being forged there as well. Okay. We’ve got a few, we’ve got a few stories to tackle here on the franchise line, two of which have been in the news recently. I just want to point out again, Tide Laundry is in the news once again. They’ve opened another laundromat in the Chicago area, and, this is part of a deal that was signed with Tide Laundry by US Laundry LLC, and they signed a 51, unit deal franchise, late last year. So they are making a big play to bring a whole bunch of Tide Laundry stores around, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see if they actually end up signing more.

Jordan Berry [00:03:55]:
So we’ll keep an eye on what Tide’s doing over there. Again, as of right now, I think Tide is the only franchise. And I say this with respect to all the other franchises because I know a lot of them and consider them friends. But I think at the moment, Tide is the only franchise, in my opinion, that has draw enough to woo customers, past existing laundromats to use their lawnmower. So they’ve got a strong enough brand to be able to do that. So we’ll keep an eye on what Tide’s doing. Similarly, and also has been in the news lately, the Kathy Kathy Ireland laundry, has launched their wash and fold licensing program. It’s a franchise there to help the wash, dry, fold services grow and keep an eye on what these guys are doing.

Jordan Berry [00:04:46]:
Main Street Holdings is the one who’s bringing this, to play here. And, I would love if anybody has any connections there, I would love to chat with those guys just to see what they’re doing and get some more information out there for you guys on the Kathy Ireland laundry, licensing program over there. And finally, in the franchise route, Happy Nest, has announced more laundromats that they have partnered with. I won’t go through them all, but they’re opening up and, new opportunities in Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona, and some other places, as well. Another one on Florida there. So happiness continuing to expand. If you’re not familiar with happiness, they are a pickup and delivery, licensing, licensing or maybe franchise, model business there that you can partner with if you own a laundromat. Okay.

Jordan Berry [00:05:43]:
Another story out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a prospective owner is actually looking to build what I think is the first, laundromat without dryers. No dryers in this laundromat. It’s yet to be seen if this is gonna be possible or if it’s just washful thinking. Washful thinking? Get it? Washful thinking? Okay. That’s not a real story. Just trying to get a joke in there for Patrick. Right. That one’s for you, buddy.

Jordan Berry [00:06:17]:
Let’s talk about some philanthropy happening in the industry. Shout out to Dana Sanderson of Wishy Washy Coin Laundry and Nancy Enceto, who is the founder of the free laundry access program out there in Toronto. They’re offering a free laundry day for those in need every single month, one a month. So congrats to them. That’s a huge initiative, trying to help people again. Keep looking for ways to help your communities and the people in your communities with your lawn rest. Doesn’t have to be with the free laundry day, but, you know, we have the ability to do some cool stuff in in our community. So keep keep an eye open.

Jordan Berry [00:06:55]:
Keep looking for stuff. Congrats to them, for doing that. I want to shout out another. This is a philanthropic play, but it’s also just kind of an interesting business model. Georgia Tech University has partnered with a nonprofit to create, a mobile laundromat. They bought a school bus, and they decked it out with seven washers, seven dryers. And I think students from Caltech engineering students helped kind of retrofit this thing and make it work so that it could be mobile. And I think every Tuesday and Thursday, they go, drive this bus laundromat out to in front of a hospital and allow, unhoused people or homeless people to do laundry in it.

Jordan Berry [00:07:36]:
So pretty cool. Also, just, you know, interesting, interesting business models here. I know this is a nonprofit, but there’s, you know, innovative ways to do this kind of stuff. And I always just find it fascinating to see how different people are tackling the different issues that come up, surrounding laundry. All right. All you gamers out there, I have got a guide. You’ve got to be subscribed to the newsletter or sign up for the free membership over at LaundromiteResource.com or somehow get on our email list over there. Because if you’re a gamer and you play The Sims four, I’ve got a how to guide on how you can open a laundromat in Sims four.

Jordan Berry [00:08:17]:
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Jordan Berry [00:08:59]:
There’s a partnership between Coca Cola and the popular K pop girl group NewJeans that took over a laundromat, and they’re actually doing, just a fun sort of pop culture promotion where people can bring in. I think they I wasn’t entirely sure, but I think they can bring in their old jeans and get new jeans that have RFID patches that unlock personal messages from the band NewJeans, the K pop band NewJeans there in Singapore. So anyways, just kind of a cool thing where local laundromat is being sort of taken over by this partnership between a pop group, a massive pop group and a massive corporation that are partnering together to do their promotions. And, the Laundromat is kind of sitting right in the middle of it there. So be looking for big things to do with your Laundromat. Don’t think small anymore. Yes. We need to take care of our customers first.

Jordan Berry [00:09:57]:
Yes. We need to keep the first things first, the main things, the main things. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t do things like partner with giant corporations or pop groups or professional sports teams like we had a couple weeks ago or whatever the case may be, doing cool things, doing fun things, doing things that’ll make people on the Facebook groups and the forums jealous, and having a good time doing it while still serving our customers. So be thinking bigger, people. That’s what I’m gonna leave you with today. That is all of the roundup for the news all across the globe for Laundromat news today. If you have news that you’d like included into the news here, email us at news@laundromatresource.com. We’ll make sure we include it in the next episode.

Jordan Berry [00:10:44]:
We will see you then.