News

• No excuses needed
• Equipment tax credit bill seeks supporters
• Clean hotels filling fast as deadlines near
• Perc usage continues 16-year decline
• TCATA hears speakers, bestows awards
• Micell letter brings rebuke from IFI
• The letter from Micell...
• ...and Bill Fisher's response
• IFI issues caution on gender-based pricing
• IFI on pricing and gender
• Programs lined up for IDC convention
• Distributor group aims to boost cleaners' casual wear volume
• FTC hears concerns on cashmere
• Chart machine will help IFI test CO2 cleaning
• SCRD updates data on clean-up programs
• Summer school is in session at IFI
• Canadians select theme for next year's Toronto show
• Obituary
• Lawrence Howard, Allied Tradesman

Around the US

• Seminars at Sea cruises to Hawaii from Nov. 4-15
• MAC hosts upcoming seminars

• NCA forms new chapter for Illinois cleaners
• WSLA plans fall convention for Oct. 5-7 in Green Bay
• DeWall elected to board
• INDLA announces schedule for fall seminar in Omaha
• Changes planned for 5-Star cleaner program in Indiana

• NEFA hosts finishing seminars
• NCA releases TexCare schedule
• Drycleaners golf for free at Aldrich Open on June 22

• SDA's 2002 show to be in San Antonio
• Royaltone Academy plans classes
• SDA officers announced at annual convention

• North Carolina clean-up law may begin as early as June
• LMDLA launches new panel for clothes claims

• SDDCA to present CARB classes
• Milnor plans seminar
• So. Cal. school hosts courses on drycleaning

Views

• The high cost of bad pricing
• They're talking about you in DC
• Eight ways to grow your business
• Feeling right at home in a distant land
• Letters to the Editor
• Are we too casual about casual wear?
• 'Comfortable' way to cut energy costs
• Who knows more than you do?
• Are you ready for financing?

Columns

• Stan Caplan: Buying equipment? Do it right
• Ray Colucci: How to compete against low prices
• Don Desrosiers: So now you are a shirt wholesaler
• Dan Eisen: Turn problem prints into profits
• Stan Golomb: A half century with entrepreneurs
• Frank Kollman: Tricky rules govern "overtime"
• Frank Lucenta: A practical guide to mixing color
• Dennis McCrory: Who decides if the price is right?
• Alan Robson: Put some structure in your business

People

• Dependable appoints Symynkywicz
• Suprema seeks oldest machine
• Realstar names Harrington
• Atlanta, Seattle join AmeriCleaners network
• Two join Methods for Management
• New sales manager for Liberty Pittsburgh Systems
• GreenEarth honors for Alquist
• UTSA joins RFID project
• Magic Wardrobe goes to Japan
• Komins joins Norton Supply
• Morrisey gown article published

• Compact 2-tank perc machines
• Tagging and assembly system with RFID option
• "Sixth generation" machines
• Route development and training system
• Powdered solvent additive
• Wetcleaning detergent
• High extract washer
• Probe and key aid for containers
• Water-based leather finishing line
• Heat seal machines
• New "dry-wetcleaning" process
• Quiet air compressor
• Wide range of capacities for line of cleaning machines
• Water heating catalog