Title:Commercial Property Maintenance Emphasizes Dependability, Pride and Communication
CPM’s founder, Windell Brent, started into this field because of a property manager friend’s lament that he couldn’t “locate a company to provide maintenance that will show up two times in a row or call me back.”
In the 23 years since then, Brent’s Commercial Property Maintenance company has built a reputation for doing that and much more. CPM has grown from three employees, two lawn mowers and one old sweeper to thirty employees, eleven industrial sweepers and numerous other pieces of landscape and power washing equipment, trucks and trailers.
Title:Sweeping a Big Part of Alaska Snow Removal’s Business
With a name like Alaska Snow Removal Services — known throughout its market area as simply ‘ASR’ — someone might think they know all the company does. However, in this instance that’s not the case.
Because of the large amount of snow abatement material the ASR team puts down during snow season, picking it back up again for clients takes a sizable sweeper fleet.
In addition to more snow removal, stacking, hauling and other snow-related services than most people in the lower 48 states can think of that has to do with snow and ice, ASR provides most any other pavement-related service around — even to designing the parking lots themselves.
Title:Brothers Cleaning Services Emphasizes the Personal Touch
In its 38th year, Oregon-based Brothers Cleaning Services, Inc. has garnered a positive reputation in a variety of service areas in addition to parking area sweeping. In part because the company’s president handles much of outside sales, the company has successfully kept in touch with its customer base through the years.
Today, the organization boasts an inside service team of over 100 in a relatively small market, so the company is clearly doing many things right.
Title:Tri-State Industrial Maintenance Employs Hands-On Techniques and Advanced Education to Enhance Professionalism
John Dubbioso, known as “Johnny D” throughout the power sweeping industry, has been involved with sweeping for many decades. Among other credits, he was one of the people behind the original Broom Bear sweeper now owned by Elgin.
Dubbioso’s Connecticut-based Tri State Industrial Maintenance offers a variety of municipal-oriented maintenance services, including sweeping, throughout that state.
Title:Growth at City Wide Maintenance Company Has Been Due to Customer Request
Ten years ago Albert and Janee Rodriguez started City Wide Pressure Washers. The goal: Operate with such impeccable ethics and customer service that their clients would have no clue the couple operated the company out of their garage. They were so successful at it that today the company offers an exhaustive list of services, and has operational offices in Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, Modesto and Los Angeles.
Title:Envirosweep Takes the High Road in Servicing Customers
In 1981 Robert Pitman started a commercial lawn care company known as Pitman Mowing Service. As time went on some customers requested parking lot sweeping services. Twenty years later, in 2001. Robert purchased his first parking lot sweeper, a slide-in AATACH. With that sweeper he started a parking lot sweeping company he named “Envirosweep.”
When he first started, Robert had just one sweeping account, which he personally handled every morning before going to work running his lawn care company. Now, in 2010, Envirosweep has over 300 customers, 22 sweepers and support vehicles, and 23 full time employees.
