June 21, 2012

Wash and aware

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When it comes to residential cleaners these days, it’s getting hard to tell the green clean from the green wash.

“In our industry, that’s really true,´ said Greg Macchia, owner of Clean Conscience of Boulder. “The industry is just so fragmented, and there’s so few really legitimate businesses — bonded, insured and paying workman’s comp — that it’s really difficult to tell.

“So many of the people we compete with are just independent cleaners. But even most of the large national chains are starting to offer green cleaning as an option.”

All around the nation — and especially in the Boulder Valley —…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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