News & Views

• Million-dollar promotion
• Barton letter outlines strategy for legislation
• An open letter to the industry from Congressman Barton
• Is drycleaning ready for dot-com?
• On-line apparel buying on the rise
• IFI meets NY rep on breast cancer study
• Obituary: Dick Van Dyne, former CEO of Adco
• Bill Fisher: A long-range strategic view
• Pigs with wigs
• Editorial: Dear David: We will be getting back...
• Editorial: The best of both worlds
• ViewPoint: Chasing the tiger out of the yard
• Do we need a better way to allocate costs?
• Letters to the Editor
• Class is always in session at IFI HQ in Silver Spring
• IFI courses are available on the web, too
• TCATA plans business, social programs for May convention
• Employment declining in UK
• Fewer jobs, more imports for US textile industry
• Retirees can earn more now without jeopardizing benefits
• Shanghai to host trade show in China

Around the US

• Midatlantic
• MAC's "Business" series continues through April
• Midwest
• MCA launches PR campaign to clean-up drycleaning image
• Changes to DERF proposed by WFI
• Informative programming highlights WFI convention
• Northeast
• NCA-I's Albany Day: Cleaners seek sympathetic ears in capitol
• Spring classes from NEFA focus on spotting and customer service
• NY Chapter excels in compliance
• South Central
• SDA initiates 2000 season with exhibit in Fort Worth
• Reading the body's unspoken words
• Laughs 'n gaffs: No problem so big that we can't smile
• SDA school to relocate in Lubbock
• South
• Gulfcoast association closes up shop
• Convention time in NC
• SEFA's 2000 Southern Drycleaners Show hits Atlanta on April 29-30
• Young to speak on wetcleaning
• West
• Milnor plans service seminar in Las Vegas from May 2-5
• CCA hosts upcoming courses for cleaners
• SDDCA plans CARB courses

People

• Alliance acquire Ajax
• Management changes at Anton's
• Washburn to distribute Realstar
• Vulcan Names Clement
• Brooks joins MFM
• DynaClean names Smidt
• Foster-Stephen promotes Daniels
• COIT marks 50th year in business by adding new services
• Hannam to chair UK association

Columns

• Stan Caplan: Is your equipment well grounded?
• Ray Colucci: When a route takes a wrong turn
• Dan Eisen: Soft wools need careful handling
• Stan Golomb: Surviving in the sea of change
• Frank Kollman: The laundry list of labor laws
• Frank Lucenta: Using a non-perforated grid plate
• Dennis McCrory: Go beyond customer satisfaction
• Alan Robson: How routes can work ­ and fail

Information Central

• Information Central
• Expanded line of small dryers
• Brochures by fax
• New packaging for detergent
• Regulatory compliance assistance
• Variable speed drive
• Newsletter in Korean
• Efficient washers
• Thinner, stripper
• Boxes for folded shirts