Founded by his father in Hackensack, New Jersey, 42 years ago, it is one of the latest victims of record oil prices.
Dry cleaning businesses are going out of business at the fastest rate since the 1960s.
There's been a dramatic jump in the cost of the chemical solvents used in the dry cleaning process.
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A purveyor of environmentally friendly cleaning products, Living Clean taps into popular concern about what we expose our bodies to and the environment in general.Founder Julie Bishop tells BOB about how she started the business, which has just taken on its first franchisee, and how Living Clean stands apart from other cleaning franchises.
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Many founders of fast-growing businesses set out with the most modest of intentions. For example, Pierre Omidyar originally set up eBay as a vehicle for his wife to trade collectables called Pez candy dispensers. Omidyar had no inkling of what the site would become.
Adrian Portlock, whose Gloucestershire-based company Recipero has built an online database comprising the serial numbers of 100 million stolen goods, agrees that this is “often the way with businesses. If you see an opportunity based on providing a solution, that’s normally a good basis for a start-up.”
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What is viral video?A viral video is a brief video clip, usually no longer than a few minutes, which gains greater exposure as viewers share it via internet or mobile technologies.
The mediums through which viral video is distributed include email, instant messaging, blogs and video sharing websites, the most popular of which, by some distance, is YouTube.
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Thirty-nine-year-old Tracey decided to buy a business to supplement her income, ultimately, perhaps, to replace her main income given the stressful nature of her job. She thinks the hair salon she bought in December 2007 could ultimately serve as a retirement fund, if and when she resigns from her role as the head of a local-council department.
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