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LAUNDRY SOLUTIONS
Channels of Laundry &
Dry-Cleaning Business
The laundry industry in India is peaking with some of the established and
new comers in the laundry business, there are
booming and growing fast with start- Smany who are clueless where to begin and
ups mushrooming in every other place. many others have ventured into franchise model or
Interestingly, a senior citizen is equally retail business.
For those who are yet to begin, “ideally,” says
enthusiastic about entering the linen Hari Krishnan, Owner of Butlers’ Laundry and
care business as a youth in his 20s. the General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Laundry
Full of new and enthusiastic ideas, & Dry-cleaning Association, “any start up should
founders of such start-ups have little begin in the retail segment by taking up about
to no access to all the information they 1500sqft space.” Many start-ups have opened shop
in far smaller places and are presently struggling to
need before investing their money make space to accommodate stocks, suppliers and
into the business. Laundrex Times, in orders. “This is happening in franchise outlets too.”
a series of articles, will feature more Retail Model
information on these types of business Kaushal Kumar, the founder of Ranchi-based
channels prevalent in the market today. start-up named Flying Bubbles, Jharkhand’s first
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