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Museum of Clean founder Don Aslett passes away

Bryan N — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:10:30 +0000

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Don Aslett, a trailblazing entrepreneur and revered figure in the cleaning industry. Don Aslett passed away during the early morning hours on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, leaving a remarkable legacy as both a business leader and innovator. As the founder and driving force behind ...

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Industry Loses Former Stepan Co. CEO

Pedro Hoffmann — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:30:45 +0000

F. Quinn Stepan, the longtime Stepan Co. chairman, president, and CEO passed away on May 13. Born in 1937 and raised in Winnetka, Illinois, Stepan joined the U.S. Army after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. In 1961, he assumed leadership of Stepan Co., an organization his father had founded in 1932. A tireless ...

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Industry Loses Longtime Sales Rep Laddi Frisinger

Pedro Hoffmann — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:01:49 +0000

Longtime cleaning industry sales representative Laddi Frisinger passed away April 20, 2024. Frisinger entered the cleaning industry in October 1970 as a sales representative with Continental Commercial Products LLC. He spent 25 years with the company, eventually serving as regional sales manager. In 1995, Frisinger left Continental to become the principal owner of Western Pacific ...

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Industry Loses Former Deb Canada Managing Director

Graeme Golucki — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:31:57 +0000

William "Bill" Marks, former managing director of Deb Canada, passed away October 18, 2021. He was 74 years old. Marks was born December 27, 1946, in Brampton, Ontario. He began a career in sales after graduating from Ryerson University, working for such organizations as Colgate-Palmolive Co. and BP plc. In the early 1980s, Marks joined ...

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Industry Loses Cintas Founder

Graeme Golucki — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:29:58 +0000

Richard T. "Dick" Farmer, founder of Cintas Corp., passed away on August 4 at the age of 86. Farmer was born November 22, 1934. Throughout his childhood and high school years, he worked for his father in the family’s business, Acme Wiper and Industrial Laundry. Farmer graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1956 and enlisted in ...

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Industry Loses Former Georgia-Pacific CEO

Graeme Golucki — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:27:44 +0000

A.D. “Pete” Correll, former CEO of Georgia-Pacific LLC, parent company of GP PRO, has passed away at the age of 80. Correll was born in Brunswick, Georgia, where he worked in his family’s clothing store. After high school, he attended Georgia Tech University on a golf scholarship. He later transferred to University of Georgia, where he graduated ...

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Canadian Cleaning Industry Icon Passes Away

Graeme Golucki — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:27:11 +0000

Jean Larose passed away May 6, 2021 at the age of 85. Larose, a lifelong entrepreneur, founded his family’s business, Larose et Fils, with his father in 1954. Larose became a member of ISSA in 1960 and proudly attended every ISSA Show North America from 1960 through to 2018. He joined the Canadian Sanitation Supply ...

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Industry Loses RJ Schinner SVP

Graeme Golucki — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:23:02 +0000

Jeffery Kampel, senior vice president of vendor relations at R.J. Schinner Co. Inc., passed away January 24, 2021. He was 71 years old. Kampel was born June 24, 1949 in New York City. He entered the distribution business in 1980, when he joined his cousin in establishing a new branch of Sweet Paper Sales in Orlando, ...

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Cleaning Industry Veteran Jerry Mitchell Passes Away

Graeme Golucki — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:22:36 +0000

Gerald “Jerry” Mitchell passed away January 10, 2021. He was 84 years old. Mitchell was born August 20, 1936. He spent much of his life in Pennsylvania, where he was a fixture in the janitorial supply industry. After nearly two decades of success as a supplier, Mitchell went into business for himself as an independent manufacturers ...

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Inventor of Lightweight Backpack Vacuum Passes Away

Pedro Hoffmann — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:04:20 +0000

Per an obituary on Legacy.com, cleaning industry veteran Larry Shideler passed away on August 31, 2023, at the age of 79. A resident of Boise, Idaho, Shideler was born on July 25, 1944. He founded Boise Janitorial and Bonneville Cleaning in Idaho Falls, Idaho, during the 1960s and later founded Western Building Maintenance in Boise. ...

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