City Wide Franchise Company Opens Boston Market

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Release date: September 12, 2008  /  Print This     RSS    

(Lenexa, KS) September 12, 2008 – City Wide Maintenance, a franchise opportunity designed for sales and management professionals, announces it has awarded its first franchise within the state of Massachusetts.

Now located in 19 markets with the single corporate location, City Wide is proud to welcome Bob and Karen Sommers as the new franchisees for City Wide Maintenance of North Boston. Their exclusive territory encompasses half of the entire metro market of Boston, Massachusetts.

“Bob and Karen are great people both personally and professionally!” says Jeff Oddo, President of City Wide Franchise Company. “They share the business values and ethics our family has had for City Wide for the past 49 years. Bob and Karen have a tremendous amount of energy and ambition. These traits will provide them the foundation to do wonderful things in Boston.”

“Business Alliance Franchise Broker, John Matchette, played a key role,” continued Oddo. “John guided the Sommers’ through the discovery process and matched their abilities to the franchise owner profile and skill set City Wide searches for.”

City Wide Franchise Company offers a professional sales and management franchise opportunity within the building maintenance industry. 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, Dallas TX, Houston TX, San Antonio and Lenexa KS.