An interview with Gene Terronez, founder of Sooner Sweepers. Included in this interview: how he used his skills as an automobile salesman to build his clientele, how he built the company to include more services than just commercial street sweeping, and the potential for using alternative energy sources, A podcast is included at the end of the article.
Title:Growth at City Wide Maintenance Company Has Been Due to Customer Request
Ten years ago Albert and Janee Rodriguez started City Wide Pressure Washers. The goal: Operate with such impeccable ethics and customer service that their clients would have no clue the couple operated the company out of their garage. They were so successful at it that today the company offers an exhaustive list of services, and has operational offices in Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, Modesto and Los Angeles.
Title: Custom Maintenance Services’ Michael Nawa Helped Define America’s Contract Sweeping Industry
Michael Nawa
Michael Nawa has been involved in the parking lot sweeping industry almost since its inception. In 1976, Nawa founded Industrial Grounds Maintenance (IGM) with his father, Andrew. He ran that operation until 2002, when he quit over differences of opinion with his dad on the directions the firm should take.
When he sold his interest in IGM to his father, Nawa transferred his leadership skills to Custom Maintenance Services, Inc. That was a two-year-old company founded and still owned by Nawa’s wife, Judy. Today, ten years later, the company sweeps over 240 properties with its fleet of 18 sweepers, as well as provides an extensive property maintenance solution for many of those customers.
