TRSA’s annual Industry Needs Assessment questionnaire will be distributed to members this week. The email will come from surveys@strategicinsightpartners.com. Responses guide TRSA’s identification of trends and opportunities, and evaluation of the association’s performance.
Robert W. Baird & Co. and TRSA recently released the results of their First-Quarter 2024 Uniform & Linen Rental Survey. Respondents to both the uniform rental and linen rental surveys remained optimistic about their growth prospects this year.
The TRSA Plant Employee Compensation study survey has been extended to allow for maximum operator involvement. The deadline for submission is March 29. TRSA members who participate in the survey receive at no cost a customized digital copy of the survey results for easy benchmarking. Non-participants can purchase the report.
Prudential Overall Supply, Irvine, CA, recently announced its 2023 customer satisfaction index (CSI) score.
TRSA’s recently released Industry Performance Report indicates a return to parity in profitability between operators serving different customer industry markets typical of the pre-COVID era. Built from a survey of financial data collected confidentially from TRSA members by MacKay Research Group, Boulder, CO, the one-of-a-kind industrywide report enables operators to compare income statements, balance sheets, and financial and employee productivity ratios.
TRSA recently released the results of its annual national safety survey, which demonstrated the commercial laundry industry continuing to make dramatic progress toward achieving its goal of eliminating occupational injuries and illnesses in its facilities.
Goldman Sachs, in partnership with TRSA, recently launched its new quarterly Uniform & Linen Rental and Facility Services Business Pulse Survey, which provides a rolling six-month forward-looking view on multiple dimensions of the industry.
TRSA’s Healthcare Committee is launching an initiative to survey operators on trends affecting the healthcare textile industry. The survey, which will be sent to healthcare operators during the week of Sept. 25, will address six trend categories: financial, fleet management, automation and technology, labor, infection control, and certification and sustainability.
TRSA’s recently released Industry Performance Report shows some financial indicators improving above pre-COVID levels, while healthcare is still recovering with profit margin, return-on-net-worth and return-on-assets trends. Using 2022 financial data collected from TRSA members on a confidential basis and compiled by the MacKay Research Group, Boulder, CO, the TRSA report is the only industrywide research report that enables operators to compare their income statements, balance sheets, and financial and employee productivity ratios.
As a result of feedback from exhibitors and visitors, Texcare International in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, will be held in autumn and run a total of four days from Wednesday through Saturday beginning with the 2024 show. The new dates for next year’s show are Nov. 6-9, 2024.
