Lapels Dry Cleaning Franchise News

December 21, 2009 // Franchising.com // DATELINE: HANOVER, MA…In an unprecedented move, the Lapels Dry Cleaning corporate office announced that it would be eliminating the percentage based royalty program and replacing it with a Flat Fee Royalty.

Lapels Dry Cleaning Franchise sales topped the 50 unit mark in 2009 putting Next Step Franchising, Inc. in a position to reward the franchisees that have been integral to the growth of the brand in the early years and offer an incentive to those who are considering joining their rapidly growing franchise program.

"We've always had a vision that when we hit the 50 franchise milestone we would do something to reward those franchisees that helped us get to this point," says Michael Eisner, Director of Sales for Lapels and the system's very first franchisee...

June 03, 2009 // Franchising.com // Hanover, Ma And Seattle, WA… Lapels® Dry Cleaning, an innovative, environmentally friendly dry cleaning company headquartered in Hanover, Massachusetts, is pleased to announce the latest addition to its growing nationwide family of retail stores. On May 9, the first Lapels® Dry Cleaning store in Seattle opened for business at 8345 15th Avenue N.W. This new Lapels® Dry Cleaning store will be open 7 am to 7 pm Monday through Friday; 8 am to 5 pm on Saturday; and 12 pm to 3 pm on Sunday.

The Grand Opening Celebration, scheduled for May 30, will include a giveaway drawing featuring a free dinner for four at a neighborhood restaurant, as well as a second prize drawing for an iPod nano...

Kingston, MA, United States - Lapels Dry Cleaning Stores nationwide will join the next Lapels Dry Cleaning sponsored 'Clothing Drive' for the benefit of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation in October 2007 .

Bag upon bag of donated clothing has been collected and counted and now it's official… Lapels Dry Cleaning Dry Cleaning stores collected over FIVE TONS of clothing during the semi-annual Lapels Clothing Drive to benefit the Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation, making it the largest EVER clothing drive to benefit the foundation in Massachusetts!

But "Big Brother" Lawrence Friedman, CEO of Lapels Dry Cleaning, has even bigger plans, as he enthusiastically notes, "We will be rolling out our clothing drive programs to all of our out-of-state stores this fall...