Mark Kowalski and Envise Partners Join Performance Matters
Laundry owners can now measure what the business is worth, see which operating decisions move the number, and track it year over year.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — September 15, 2026 — Performance Matters, the consulting firm that has worked exclusively with commercial laundries and textile rental operators since 2006, today announced that Mark Kowalski and his firm Envise Partners have joined Performance Matters. Envise Partners continues under its own name as a Performance Matters company, with Kowalski leading the firm's business valuation work.
Kowalski has spent the past eight years helping laundry owners understand what their businesses are worth, building a laundry-specific body of valuation and metric data along the way. That data — and the valuation practice behind it — now sits alongside the operating work Performance Matters has done for two decades.
Performance Matters has always worked on the operating side of a laundry: data analytics, route productivity, service, and sales. The addition connects that work to the value of the business itself. Owners can establish a value baseline, see which improvements actually move the number, and re-measure it year after year.
“Owners ask us two questions: how do I run this better, and what is it all worth? For twenty years we could answer the first one. With Mark on the team, we can answer both — with real laundry data behind the number instead of a rule of thumb.”
— Blake Montgomery, Chief Executive Officer and Owner, Performance Matters
“I've valued a lot of laundries, and the pattern is always the same: owners who know their number early make better decisions for years afterward. Joining Performance Matters means an owner gets the number and the team that helps move it.”
— Mark Kowalski, Managing Director and Founder, Envise Partners
Full business valuations are handled by Envise Partners. Performance Matters offers the Laundry Value Baseline, a fixed-scope engagement that gives owners a directional value picture as part of long-range planning. Both are available immediately.
About Performance Matters
Performance Matters is a performance-improvement and organizational-development firm working exclusively with commercial laundries and textile rental operators across the United States and Canada. Founded in 2006, the firm pairs clients' own operating data with industry playbooks to find gaps, close them, and hold the gains. performance-matters.com
About Envise Partners
Envise Partners is a business valuation firm serving commercial laundry and textile rental owners, and a Performance Matters company. Founded by Mark Kowalski, the firm has spent eight years building the laundry-specific valuation and metric data behind its work. envisepartners.com