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Business View Magazine
Liniform Service
Custom solutions for linen and uniform needs
Liniform is a full service linen and uniform service
company based in Barberton, Ohio. It was founded
in 1924, by two brothers, Albert and Chris Good, who
came from West Virginia to Ohio to establish the Bar-
berton White Wet Wash Company. Bertha Jenkins,
who began working at Liniform in 1971 as an entry-
level employee and is now the President of Liniform,
talks about the Good brothers and the company’s ear-
ly days: “They would go around, house to house and
pick up peoples’ laundry – mostly their white goods.
They would bring it into the laundry, wash it, and then
take it back to the housewives who hung it on a line to
dry. They did that for a long time. Along with that, they
opened up some dry cleaning stores in town.”
After World War II, Albert’s son, Albert Edward “Ed”
Good, Jr., took over the company. Because people
were now buying their own washing machines, Ed Jr.
decided to change the firm’s business model from in-
dividual households to serving established business-
es, providing linens, towels, and uniforms to industrial
customers. He also changed the company’s name to
Barberton Laundry and Cleaning, Inc. “Back then there
were five family-owned laundries in the Barberton/Ak-
ron area,” relates Jenkins. “They all closed, sold out, or
moved on. And so we were the only local, family-owned
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