City Wide Franchise Company Expands into the Northwest

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Release date: October 13, 2008  /  Print This     RSS    

(Lenexa, KS) October 13, 2008 – The country’s leading sales and management company in the building maintenance industry, City Wide Franchise Company, announces it’s awarded the Seattle metro area as a single territory to a current City Wide franchise owner, Scott Brown, and his new business partners, John Suranyi and Dennis Beaulieu.

Scott Brown and John Suranyi are both formerly from the telecommunications and broadcast media industries where they served together at DIRECTV. Brown was Senior VP of Field Operations while Suranyi held the position of President of Sales and Service, an operating group of DIRECTV. Dennis Beaulieu, the third partner will function as daily operations manager for the City Wide Maintenance of Washington office.

“It’s very rewarding in today’s economy when a current franchise owner comes back to the table to increase his investment in this business,” stated Jeff Oddo, President of City Wide Franchise Company. “The building maintenance industry is nearly recession-proof and certainly this sale is a testament to that view.”

“Ours is a great industry. There are many reasons why professionals are considering this business for the first time -- or in this instance the third time!” added Tom Stone, Vice President of City Wide Franchise Company. “The City Wide business model is straightforward and it simply works.”

City Wide Franchise Company offers a professional sales and management franchise opportunity within the building maintenance industry. This franchise opportunity was designed for the sales and management professional leaving or wanting to leave Corporate America.

City Wide utilizes a unique business model to cross-sell and deliver 20+ services to its commercial clients, including janitorial, carpet cleaning, window washing, parking lot maintenance and tenant improvements. City Wide is the “Total Solution” to its clients for building maintenance services.

City Wide focuses exclusively on the professional, B2B market by capitalizing on the growing business trend of “outsourcing.” Auto-renewing contracts offer compounding growth within a virtually recession-proof industry. The City Wide franchise model requires few employees to operate the business and requires little to no inventory or equipment investment.

City Wide Maintenance was founded in Kansas City, MO by Frank Oddo in 1959 and is now a national organization with multiple franchise locations. Current President, Jeff Oddo, second generation owner of the family business, began franchising the company’s business model in 2001.

City Wide is a national company with locations in San Diego CA, Orange County CA, Denver CO, Jacksonville FL, Atlanta GA, Indianapolis IN, Boston MA, Minneapolis MN, St. Louis MO, Charlotte NC, Omaha NE, Newark NJ, Cincinnati OH, Columbus OH, Cleveland OH, Nashville TN, Austin TX, Dallas TX, Houston TX, San Antonio TX, Seattle WA and Lenexa KS.