City Wide Franchise Company Named a Top 100 New Franchise

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Release date: March 20, 2007  /  Print This

After just 5 years of franchising its unique business model, City Wide Franchise Company has been named as a Franchise Market Magazine Top 100 New Franchises.

The “Top 100 New Franchises” listing is considered a comprehensive list of the Top 100 new franchises formed since the year 2000.

According to Sean Kelly, President of Idea Farm, a leading franchise marketing firm, “City Wide [is] shaking things up in commercial cleaning. Common wisdom might suggest that joining a large, well-established franchise chain is the safest route, but when looking for the next big franchise opportunity, it pays to ‘Think Small.’”

“When we are all dependent on the same labor pool, what makes one company successful and another fail?” asks Linda Kafka, City Wide Franchisee, San Diego, California, “City Wide Maintenance has clearly addressed this issue by developing a better business model.”

City Wide Maintenance of San Diego is a professional management company within the building maintenance industry offering 20+ services to its clients, including janitorial, carpet cleaning, window washing, parking lot maintenance and tenant improvements. City Wide is a “Total Solution” to its clients for building maintenance services. Says Kafka, “We save our clients time by reducing the headaches associated with managing multiple vendors.”

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

City Wide Maintenance has locations in San Diego CA, Denver CO, Atlanta GA, Indianapolis IN, Bloomington MN, St. Louis MO, Newark NJ, Cincinnati OH, Columbus OH, Cleveland OH, Dallas TX, Houston TX and Lenexa KS.