Title:Central Sweeping, Inc. Offers Certified Services Throughout its Central Florida Marketplace
Florida’s only NAPSA-Certified company offers over 40 years of experience.
Title:Clean Sweep, Inc. Offers Certified Services Throughout Greater Chattanooga, Tennessee
Pete Phillips, president of Clean Sweep, Inc., literally grew up in the parking lot sweeping business. His dad founded the company in 1984 with a single sweeper that ended up in an accident and was a total loss only three months later. In spite of such a rocky start, the company has progressed to being a market leader in Tennessee.
Phillips, a fixture at the yearly National Pavement Expositions, is one of those contractors who constantly works at finding better ways to operate his business. At the show, he not only attends a number of seminars where he can learn the latest about techniques and equipment, but also may be found among those savvy contractors who burn the midnight oil in productive bull sessions with other industry professionals.
Title:Progressive Sweeping’s Success Credited to Customer Response Times and Accurate Expense Tracking
Back in 1978, Mike Lucht was using his management degree to sell life insurance. After four or five years of that, Lucht says, “my entrepreneurial spirit kicked in and I looked around for something else. Tom Maish (longtime head of Ohio-based Contract Sweepers and Equipment) talked to me about sweeping parking lots. He was a TYMCO dealer and so knew about the concept. I ended up buying a TYMCO 210 from him — back then they didn’t even have dual tires on the back — and I was in business for myself.
Mike Lucht “Those might be called the ‘glory days’ of parking lot sweeping. I had great sales skills I had learned to sell insurance, where I was used to making 100 cold phone calls to get 10 appointments to sell one policy. With sweeping I could make 10 calls, get five appointments and sell three jobs. What a difference!”
Title:Cannon Pacific is a Southern California Powerhouse
Title:Covenant Sweeping Provides Faith-Based Integrity to All its Business Operations
Out of high school, Darren Lagana went to work for NASA. After a year with the space agency, though, at the age of 21 he decided he wanted to work for himself in the building and construction trade. He started out doing a wide variety of business-related services.
It wasn’t long before he found himself working on building high-end, custom homes. An inability to find quality landscapers led to Lagana’s first foray into another field. In 1997, he branched out to open a landscaping and design company.
Title:Wells Sweeping is Leading California Contractors’ Fight Against California Air Resources Board Regulations
In the early 70s, guitar-playing Jay Wells says he kept seeing these odd-looking machines out late at night when he’d finish his band gigs. Interested, he talked to the drivers to see what it was they were doing. Then, he met Jack Rogers, inventor of the Nite-Hawk single-engine sweeper concept. Before he knew it, Wells said with a laugh, he was “in the parking lot sweeping business.”
Initially, fledgling Wells Sweeping handled only parking area cleanup. “There wasn’t much competition to speak of,” Jay said. “It was the golden days of sweeping. One of the manufacturers had an ad campaign about there being ‘gold on the streets.’ Looking back at it, in a way the ads were true. I didn’t realize how good we had it.”
