Dec
15
By Clean Team
12/15/2010 8:31 PM
From ToledoFreePress.com
Bob Armbruster
Bob Armbruster, president of Clean Team, Inc. in Toledo, became an entrepreneur at age 18 starting a business with an office in his parents’ basement and filling the garage with various cleaning supplies.
“I was so naïve and young, it just happened,” Armbruster said.
Clean Team is a family business, with Bob and his father as partners, his mother running the office and his sister doing in-house telemarketing.
Today, the company provides an array of janitorial services including general office cleaning, floor stripping and waxing, carpet and window cleaning along with supplies such as soap and paper towel dispensers.
Despite the economic downturn, business is still up 20 percent over the previous year and would have doubled if not for the recession, according to Armbruster.
“The most important thing in business is your employees,” he said about putting into practice the best business advice he has received.
“If we treat the folks that work for us correctly, then they will take care of our customers. If you treat your customers right, you should keep their business,” Armbruster said.
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