Workshops

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Product Training 101 - How to Understand Textile Procurement

Back to the basics. Product Training 101 starts with understanding how your products are made. When you understand your product specification and how a product is made, you better understand how to purchase. Not all textiles are the same.

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Marketing Differentiation: Leveraging Your Story to Create a Well-Rounded Brand

Do you know how to utilize marketing to strengthen your company’s sales strategy and brand? Learn how Calderon has harnessed marketing through the exploration of their journey. We will illustrate steps your company can take to implement a strong, clear brand message to support your sales goals through examples, exercises, and takeaways.

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Navigating Through an Unpredictable Environment

The business environment is always changing and presenting new challenges. How do you lead an agile company to adapt and evolve? Listen to company pivots: strategies that were implemented and tools employed. Participate in discussions regarding current problems facing our industry and supply chains.

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Flexible Solutions to Optimize Operational Efficiencies

Operators are focused on driving efficiencies in Total Cost of Operation (TCO). Learn about tailored solutions to fit specific needs including flexible chemical solutions to reduce costs in water, energy, labor, and time and new water and energy equipment solutions that help optimize utilities and manage your wastewater and effluent needs.

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Higher Hygiene Awareness

Customers will continue to have a heightened awareness of hygiene. Learn about programs tailored to increase your plant hygiene, provide the proper cleaning procedures, find the right disinfection program for your wash to supplement the linen cleanliness, and, ultimately, drive you to a higher hygiene standard, as your customers will be looking to you to do.

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Preparing for the Future is as Easy as 1-2-3

In this session, we will review steps you can take to influence the trajectory of your organization. We will cover how managing the past, present, and future will create innovative solutions to address some of the challenges facing laundries today. Implementing some of these ideas will set a positive direction for sales and management.

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External Trends that Could Impact Your Mat Business

Review trends that will shape the future of the mat industry during this session including the increased demand for safety, cleanliness, and image solutions. We will also review the demand for ergonomic anti-fatigue products that provide comfort and “green” products. Learn about improvements in technology for online purchases.

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Features, Advantages, and Benefits of Pinnacle Industrial Garments

Presenting our Pinnacle WorX industrial garments and the styles and features that are most popular in the rental industry. We will also be presenting popular private label programs that will help your company stand out and give your sales reps a level playing field when competing against national chains that manufacture their own garments.

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Infinity Linen - University of Kentucky Test Results and Competitive Strengths

Presenting the different types of yarns and weights and characteristics of our Infinity table linen in comparison to Spun/Filament table linen. Details on the advantages over spun/filament as well as others spun/spun table linen. We will also be presenting unbiased quality tests conducted by a third party, the University of Kentucky Textile Lab.

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Going Head to Head the With the New Normal

2020 was one of the strangest years in economic history.  We saw the quickest and deepest bear market decline in history, trillions of dollars of global stimulus, the highest volatility on record, negative oil prices, and the fastest recovery from a bear market.  We have seen a very quick rebound and supply chain was not ready for the demand.  Tariff constraints and currency woes added to a steep increase in prices coupled with massive labor shortages worldwide.  This new reality is here to stay for the near future, at least the remainder of the year.  We will offer some solutions to this new business climate and help your business thrive.  We will look at the landscape and touch on your social story, finding and keeping employees, and emerging markets and trends.

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The Value of a Domestic Manufacturer

The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the global supply chain, given the unpredictability of supply and demand. In this presentation, CSC members will learn the long-term value and key advantages of partnering with a reliable domestic manufacturer for products like table linens, lab coats, and face masks – helping your business operate with less risk and greater quality control, to cost efficiency.

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Navigating a Profitable Hand Care Program

In this session, Woodbine will discuss how to make sense of a comprehensive hand care program by incorporating strategies like minimizing SKU's by converting legacy products and dispensers. This session will cover partnering with suppliers that offer growth programs with a plan and the benefits of providing direct sale and service plans.

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How to WIN in a Sea of Sameness by Selling the Bulwark iQ Series

How do you separate yourself as a service provider with all of the common terminology, protective information, and marketing available? Learn how Bulwark’s iQ flame-resistant and arc-rated garments can give you the kind of competitive advantage to help enhance and complement their current safety program to leverage and win.

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