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97 Reasons to Celebrate
At Roscoe, we’re celebrating 97 years in business today and that is a lot to celebrate. Nine plus decades have passed since two young entrepreneurs in 1921 recognized a booming city’s need for someone to launder all of those work clothes. So we’ll start there. Below are 97 reasons we are celebrating today. 2 Entrepreneurs … Read more
Roscoe Family Picnic 2018: Over Too Soon
We came, we ate, we conquered the marble run and then we ate some more, at the always delicious, always entertaining Roscoe annual family picnic at National Grove South on a perfect Chicago summer day. Roscoe children of all ages welcomed our new clown “Strawberri” at the June 23 event. Strawberri’s face painting and balloon … Read more
Seeing is Believing: The Roscoe Plant Tour
If you’re looking for an alternative to the big national uniform providers, you probably have a pretty good idea of what you don’t want in a work uniform provider. Missing uniforms, chronic billing issues and spotty customer service practices drive customers away from their national providers on a regular basis. But it’s one thing to … Read more
Roscoe Earns National Safety Recognition
At Roscoe, safety is part of everything we do, from the work uniforms we provide to our customers, to the practices we follow in our own facilities. It’s built into our culture. So when we had the opportunity to take our safety program up to an even higher level, we were all in in. As … Read more
The Secret Life of Corporate Apparel
There are a lot of good reasons for having a line of corporate apparel, whether or not your employees wear a uniform. As office wear or at company outings, it reinforces a sense of team spirit. In the field, or given as gifts, corporate apparel can help to build your brand. Secretly of course, companies … Read more
Roscoe Leaders Discuss Technology, Teamwork with American Laundry News
The laundry industry, like every other business, has experienced dramatic changes in technology. At the same time, it’s a people-centered business where customer service is the key differentiator. As a fourth-generation family business, that’s an intuitive value at Roscoe We have evolved into a state-of-the-art facility, but our value has always been in our people … Read more
Roscoe’s Headline Event Will Open the 2018 Chicago Scottish Festival
If you’re a fan of “The Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond,” – and who isn’t? – you’ll love the Roscoe-sponsored Midwest Pipe Band Association Competition which headlines Chicago’s 2018 Scottish Festival & Highland Games next month. This family-friendly, two-day annual festival will open to a skirl of the pipes at 1 p.m., June 15 at … Read more
Area Business Leaders Network Over Breakfast & Cupcakes
An early morning breakfast and networking event drew dozens of Chicago-area business leaders to the Garden City Business Center last week to learn how to hone their social media techniques and to gather with leaders of the Lawndale Business Renaissance Association and the Business Executives Association. The event, co-hosted by Roscoe, along with the LBRA … Read more
Industry & Community Leadership: Beyond the Bottom Line
At Roscoe, we’ve worked hard to earn our reputation for providing high quality work uniform rentals and unmatched customer service. But behind the scenes, we work just as hard to be a good neighbor to our community, a responsible steward of the environment and a leader to the industry. There’s more to running a business … Read more
