Cleaning Wervices

Franchise

After 30 Years of Pizza, This Franchisee 'Cleaned up' With a Very Different Concept

John Mansour wanted his 'second act' to be something outside the restaurant field, so he opened his own Cleaning Authority business in Illinois.

Franchise

Franchise Players: Playing the Long Game as a Cleaning and Restoration Franchisee

This franchisee went from carpet cleaner to a top Rainbow International franchisee over the course of 27 years.

Science & Technology

Goodbye, Car Wash: Nissan Develops 'Self-Cleaning' Car

Ok, so it's really a high-tech paint job. Still nifty, though. Check out the video of Nissan's 'self-cleaning' paint in action.

Franchise

Franchise Players: I'm On My Own, But Not Alone

After years of self-employment, this franchisee wanted to get into business for himself but not by himself.

Franchise

Get Organized! Cleaning Pros Offer Tips

Warm weather brings out the neat-freak impulse. Franchises that provide everything from decluttering to reorganizing supply their best advice.

Franchise

How a Business-School Grad Became a Successful Franchisee

After college, a twentysomething rejects loftier professions and becomes Sir Grout's hardest-working franchisee.

Marketing

A Window Washer Puts Workers in Kilts to Skirt Competition and Build Its Brand

A unique cleaning franchise recently expanded to the U.S. from Vancouver, British Columbia, via Scotland.

Franchise

The Top 10 Commercial Cleaning Franchises

These franchisees have discovered how cleaning up other people's messes can become big business.

Starting a Business

Cleaning Up

3 Businesses that will sweep you away