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The U.S. Commercial & Residential Cleaning Services Industry (Study)

This Marketdata study examines the huge $78 billion commercial contract cleaning and maintenance services market. The business, which encompasses janitorial services, pest control, window cleaning, carpet/floor cleaning, parking lot maintenance, security, HVAC/facilities management and more, is very competitive, comprised of 906,000 mainly small operators, including 48,400 franchised outlets. Competitors run the gamut from mom & pop cleaners, to giants such as ABM Industries with $2.4 billion in revenues and UGL UNICCO with $852 million in commercial maintenance sales. This study traces industry size, growth, segments, structure, end-user demand, and operating ratios — Receipts for 1987-2010 actual, 2011-2012 estimates, and 2016 forecasts.

Steady sales gains of 5-7% per year, and 10% in 2007 came to a halt in 2009 with the recession, real estate bust, rising office building vacancy rates, and cutbacks in the frequency of cleaning by clients. Some customers even shifted to in-house cleaning. Low-ball prices, discounts and rebates have become the norm, hurting profits. Green cleaning and certification has become more important.

This is a complete analysis of: competitor market share, major industry trends, industry franchising, office and industrial building vacancy rates, impact of the recession, cleaning worker pay/turnover, outsourcing, more. Includes highlights of latest surveys by trade journals, as well as comments and outlooks by top competitors, trade groups and industry consultants. Separate in-depth chapters analyze the Carpet Cleaning and Residential/Maid Services segments. National, state and city ratios from Census Bureau surveys. Includes in-depth profiles and rankings of all the top franchise and non-franchise competitors (ABM Industries, Anago, Bonus Building Care, ServiceMaster, Jani-King, Jan-Pro, Clean Net, Coverall, Pritchard Industries, Red Coats, Vanguard, UGL Unicco.)

227 Pages, 152 Tables

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Earn $50,000 a Year in Your Own Cleaning Service
This how-to manual and 5 audio cassette training program covers every aspect of developing a successful cleaning business. Contents deal with planning, marketing, bidding, administration, and production. The author discusses getting started, prospecting, sales literature, the bidding process, time and pricing guidelines, personnel management, quality control, and procedures for a variety of cleaning tasks performed in most commercial buildings. This program is presented in an enthusiastic, positive, you-can-do-it manner that will inspire you to start or expand your business. Written and produced by a cleaning contractor who used these methods and techniques to build his own successful contract cleaning business, which he operates today in Bedford, Texas.
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How to Start and Operate a Successful Cleaning Business

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A guide for new or diversifying businesses and a valuable reference tool for managers and owners of established operations. The author gives facts, examples, and current information on how small service businesses can be started and operated in a profitable manner. Over twenty different cleaning related services are reviewed. All can be started with a minimum investment. Examples range from office, home, and industrial cleaning to high-pressure washing and carpet cleaning. This book is packed full of practical advice and information on such management subjects as marketing, supervision, employee training and bidding. It is the official training manual for the Association of Cleaning Technicians (ACT) and the Professional Carpet and Upholstery Cleaners Association (PCUCA).
278 pages
Binding: Paper

 

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How to Buy a Small Business or Sell One: A Procedures Manual
This book presents a comprehensive eleven step, detailed procedure for buying or selling a service business. Purchasers learn how to identify legitimate, profit-making enterprises with potential and how to avoid being duped by an unscrupulous operator's tactics and tricks. Sellers are shown how to present their business in the best possible light and sell for the maximum value and return on their investment of time and money.
56 pages
Binding: Comb
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How to Start a Corporation Without a Lawyer, for Under $75
This book shows you how you can start your own corporation in any state, without expensive legal fees or leaving your home. Included are important step by step instructions plus all the forms needed to set up and keep the business legal.
108 pages
Binding: Paper
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Profitable Bookkeeping for Cleaning Businesses
This book presents a simple, effective system that allows you to easily and quickly maintain your financial records and produce a monthly profit and loss statement.
Accurate recordkeeping is a necessity when it comes to controlling costs, monitoring cashflow and ensuring profitability. Many small business owners become frustrated by unfamiliar terminology, complex systems and changing tax laws.
167 pages
Binding: Paper
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Profitable Book Keeping for Small Service Shops
All small service shops, including automobile garages, beauty parlors, carpenters, repair shops, nurseries and other professional service companies, must maintain careful control of their labor costs and other expenses if they are to survive and prosper.
This book explains the nuts and bolts of an accounting system specifically tailored to the needs of successful service shops.
216 pages
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Inside the Family Business
This book's subject is the core and substance of the successful family business and the family in that business. Successful business owners build more than a business, writes Dr. Danco. Inside The Family Business goes far beyond questions of management technique. This book is useful and fascinating reading for members of business owning families, their employees, advisors, and directors. A useful book for anyone who works with or within a family owned business.
250 pages
Binding: Hardback
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From the Other Side of the Bed
This book is written by, for, and about women in family owned businesses. The author, Kathy Danco is the wife of Leon A. Danco, Ph.D, one of the nation's leading authorities on family business. She has drawn on conversations with hundreds of women over the past 25 years to provide a realistic view of this previously unexplored "other half" of business ownership and success. Answering questions from how can they help their spouses, even when they refuse to talk about their problems, to defining their relationship with the business so they actually feel it is theirs as much as their spouses. For a family business to achieve its potential, it cannot be in conflict with the family.
180 pages
Binding: Hardback
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How to Start a Window Cleaning Business

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A great one person business that's easy to start, in demand everywhere and highly profitable as supply and equipment costs are minimal. Judy Suval provides complete information on licenses, taxes, advertising, bookkeeping, and step by step procedures for cleaning windows profitably on a full or part time basis. Suval compares servicing commercial and residential accounts and details how to price your work for profit. Illustrations, diagrams, and sample forms are included, along with a short chapter on bartering, bidding and finding customers.
100 pages
Binding: Paper
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