Spotlight

Today, the street sweeping industry features fully-digital and all-electric sweeper trucks, a variety of off-the-shelf integrated business platforms with full-scope ERPs, including sophisticated CRMs, networked field devices, advanced telecom systems, and more, all adapted to better manage the delivery and performance of street sweeping services. So, the profession is ready for this next-level advancement: Enter Andrew …

A. Sheerin, Ph.D. Creates System to Measure Local Water Quality Effects from Targeted Sweeping Read More »

Gale Holsman’s American Companies: American Sweeper, Inc., American Waste Systems, Inc, and Total Venue, LLC American Companies, Inc. is the corporate umbrella under which a vastly diverse range of services are delivered in the Kansas City market. Gale Holsman, Founder, President, and CEO of American Companies has led the expansive organization for over 40 years. …

Service Business Leader, Gale Holsman Brings New Services to KC Read More »

Paradise means getting “Quality For Less,” according to the Paradise Sweeping slogan embedded with the company’s logo. The tagline for this North Carolina powersweeping and maintenance service further asserts the Paradise team’s priority: “Helping your business make a winning first impression.” This package of introductory catchphrases is a bit of creative marketing handiwork that captures …

Welcome to Paradise! Paradise Sweeping Service – Charlotte and Raleigh, NC Read More »

Angie Browning and her husband Bob have a shared life story of a kind that you certainly do not hear about every day. They were referred to NAS for this Spotlight by a mutual business acquaintance because of their interesting backgrounds and the unique circumstances under which they came to take charge of Kleen Sweep …

Kleen Sweep, Kilgore TX – Growth–Savvy Leadership Read More »

FoutsCo is a highway and general road construction contractor in north Texas. The company has grown at a spectacular rate over just eight years in operation. The organization under the direction of Lane Fouts, CEO, FoutsCo Paving Company LLC, has grown during this relatively brief period from zero to become a major contractor with the Texas …

Growing With Texas – FoutsCo Paving Company, LLC Read More »

The line of successful powersweeping business owners in the Blackerby family has continued to grow in central Kentucky over three generations. Today, Jim Blackerby Jr., Owner, Lexington Pavement Sweep, and his son Jim Blackerby III, Owner, Louisville Pavement Sweep, are perpetuating this great tradition. Both provide commercial sweeping solutions to customers with properties of virtually …

Lexington Pavement Sweep, A Notable Growing Legacy Read More »

Watt Commercial Sweeping is a company that has been in the sweeping industry for 26 years in the great southern state of Georgia. With their experience and dedication to service, they are a stand-out brand to look at. One of the best parts of this company is the respect they have for their employees. They …

Watt Commercial Sweeping Read More »

This is a business that entered the Mid-South US market with an enormous advantage in the proven leadership of Carl Barton. As PepsiCo, Inc. GM, Memphis & New Orleans, Barton had overseen operations of two of the corporation’s swarming regional hubs. He brought broad general business knowledge and corporate management skills to his new entrepreneurial …

Aardvark Memphis – Staggering Launch and Sustained Growth Read More »

Scott and Julienne Audette started Valley View Sanitation Services, Inc. in upstate New York nearly 30 years ago. They grew the business for 23 years and then sold it. Next, Scott and the couple’s son, Alec, launched a new company, a commercial power sweeping service in Ballston Spa, New York, about 30 miles north of …

Standard Sweeping Inc. – Setting the Industry Standard Read More »

Picture the lush green mountains of West Virginia around Wheeling. The song’s not wrong. It’s almost heaven. At the least, there’s no place else like this stretch of Appalachia. Add to the vision the bass fishing here on the Ohio River, upstream from the reserve. Nestled in this rare environment is cozy Bridgeport Ohio, home …

PMSI, Tri-State Sweeping and Property Maintenance Services Read More »