Business View Magazine | March 2020

127 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 Ritz-Carlton hotels around the country, today, for hospitality laundry. “In 2008, we continued our expansion into Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We converted our relationship with a large healthcare system in the Charlotte area, taking over their laundry and converting it to a full-service laundry for ourselves. From there, we had some more rapid growth in 2011 when we did our first greenfield build - a plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, just outside of Milwaukee, a 70,000-square-foot facility built for a large healthcare customer in that marketplace. In 2012, we expanded into the Phoenix market with the acquisition of a large facility located near the airport in Phoenix that was previously owned by a competitor. In 2014, we did our second greenfield build expansion in Northern California in Manteca.” “Healthcare is now the primary driver. The evolution in the growth of Crothall Laundry Services has been in healthcare, which represents 92 percent of the overall organization. CROTHALL LAUNDRY AND L INEN SERV I CES Division Vice President, Chris Corcoran