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Bibbentuckers, Speedy join FRSTeam network
Two drycleaning firms — Bibbentuckers of Dallas, TX, and Speedy’s Cleaners of Rochester, NY — have joined the FRSTeam national fabric restoration franchise.
In business since 1996 with six retail locations featuring separate facilities and staging, hand cleaning, and wetcleaning areas, Bibbentuckers has extensive experience in retail drycleaning including expertise in leathers, a shoe service and higher-end processing capabilities for handling sophisticated tailoring, intricate beading, or other fragile handwork associated with couture garments and fine or delicate fabrics.
The company will use a portion of a 50,000-sq.-ft. facility in a downtown Dallas location near Baylor Hospital. FRSTeam by Bibbentuckers coverage area will include Dallas-Fort Worth and down through Austin.
FRSTeam by Bibbentuckers new fabric restoration facility will be located at 502 South Second Avenue, Dallas, TX.
“We have a very similar customer service philosophy and want to leverage the existing FRSTeam brand to apply to the restoration side,” said John M. Palms Jr., Bibbentuckers owner. “Diversification is important in an unstable economic climate and the restoration business is more recession-resistant.”
Read more at the National Clothesline website.
Bibbentuckers in Dallas Takes Grand Prize in 49th Plant Design Awards
American Drycleaner
DALLAS — It was a moment every business owner dreads. Something — perhaps a faulty light fixture — sparked, and the spark became a flame. Staffers scrambled for the fire extinguishers, but soon decided to save themselves instead. Within minutes, a five-alarm fire engulfed the building.
Fortunately, no one was hurt. But only one wall was left standing after the disaster, and more than 10,000 finished garments had gone up in smoke. With the help of the SPOT point-of-sale system and a responsible risk-management program, “we were able to pay out $1.4 million in claims to the rightful owners,” says John Palms, chairman and CEO of Dallas-based Bibbentuckers, Grand Prize winner of American Drycleaner’s 49th annual Plant Design Awards. And in spite of the loss, he soon came to see this as a “glass-half-full” moment.
Read more at the American Drycleaner website.
New owners of Bibbentuckers look to clean up as they expand
American Drycleaner
DALLAS — It was a moment every business owner dreads. Something — perhaps a faulty light fixture — sparked, and the spark became a flame. Staffers scrambled for the fire extinguishers, but soon decided to save themselves instead. Within minutes, a five-alarm fire engulfed the building.
Fortunately, no one was hurt. But only one wall was left standing after the disaster, and more than 10,000 finished garments had gone up in smoke. With the help of the SPOT point-of-sale system and a responsible risk-management program, “we were able to pay out $1.4 million in claims to the rightful owners,” says John Palms, chairman and CEO of Dallas-based Bibbentuckers, Grand Prize winner of American Drycleaner’s 49th annual Plant Design Awards. And in spite of the loss, he soon came to see this as a “glass-half-full” moment.
Read more at the American Drycleaner website.
New owners of Bibbentuckers look to clean up as they expand
The Dallas Morning News
John Palms and Kip Sowden found they were quite a coaching team. They led their kids' Orange Longhorns YMCA football team to an undefeated sixth-grade season two years ago and went out on top.
John Palms on NBC 5 talking about how to pick a dry cleaner
John Palms on NBC 5 talking about Lemmon and Mckinney Grand Reopening
Backups Saved the Day
For the owners, preparation, planning, and good business choices turned what could have been a disaster into an opportunity for growth.
