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We buy and run laundromats

We buy the business you built.

Valemont Group acquires laundromats and dry cleaners and operates them for the long term, building a national garment-care platform. We are operators, backed by a board that has run public companies and closed transactions from hundreds of thousands to billions. When you sell to Valemont, you are paid fairly and the business keeps running.

We’re the buyer, not a broker · No fees to us · Confidential

Phil AkinDave MenzTommy Heffernan
Chad MayrArthur B. GuptaJohn Tyrrell

The people who learn your business have owned and run these stores.

100+ acquisitions200+ laundromats launched50+ years operating
Our approach

We buy to operate, not to strip.

Operators, not financial buyers

The people behind Valemont have owned and run laundromats and dry cleaners. We acquire businesses to operate them, and to make them better.

Capital and systems

We bring the balance sheet, technology, and infrastructure that most independent owners never had access to.

Continuity by design

We keep the team, the name, and the standards, because they hold the value we are acquiring.

The operators behind every offer

The people who price your store run stores like it.

Every Valemont offer is reviewed by operators who have built and run laundromats, dry cleaners, route businesses, and franchise systems across the country. Between them, hundreds of locations opened, bought, and run.

Phil Akin
Phil Akin
Director, Valemont Group

Co-founder and CEO of Clean Laundry, a modern retail laundromat chain with 163 locations and growing. Founded Duds ’n Suds, a laundry franchise that ran in 30 states and abroad. Four decades in the business.

Clean Laundry runs a modern retail model: large stores, card payment, attended hours, wash-and-fold. Before that he built Duds ’n Suds into an international franchise across 30 states. Four decades in franchising, marketing, and business development.

Dave Menz
Dave Menz
Director, Valemont Group

Founder of Queen City Laundry, grown from one struggling store into a multi-location operation, and of Laundromat Millionaire, the industry’s leading education platform. Twenty years operating laundromats.

Bought a struggling store and turned it into a multi-location operation, then built Laundromat Millionaire, the consulting and media platform most owners in the industry have read or listened to. One of the strongest partner networks in the category across manufacturers, software, and lenders.

Chad Mayr
Chad Mayr
Advisor, Valemont Group

Founder of Farview Holdings, parent of University Cleaners and Wash-O-Matic Laundry: dry cleaning, laundry, and pickup-and-delivery across multiple locations.

Nearly two decades in executive leadership before becoming an owner-operator. Farview Holdings runs University Cleaners and Wash-O-Matic Laundry: dry cleaning plants, laundromats, and a pickup-and-delivery business, across multiple locations.

Tommy Heffernan
Tommy Heffernan
Director, Valemont Group

Fifteen years as VP and GM of Super Laundry at CSC ServiceWorks, the largest laundry route operator in the United States. Former board member, New England Coin Laundry Association.

More than 30 years in laundry sales and operations. As VP and GM of Super Laundry at CSC ServiceWorks he drove revenue and EBITDA growth across multi-location laundromat investors. Former board member of the New England Coin Laundry Association.

John Tyrrell
John Tyrrell
Advisor, Valemont Group

Owner of Solomatic by CACO Manufacturing, a laundromat infrastructure supplier; former WaveMAX Laundry master franchisee; 25 years in multi-unit operations.

Owner of Solomatic by CACO Manufacturing, a supplier of laundromat infrastructure, and a former WaveMAX Laundry master franchisee. Earlier a Regional Director at Shutterfly Lifetouch overseeing a $140 million region. 25 years in sales leadership and multi-unit operations.

These are the people who learn your business. Meet the full board.

Who you are working with

Not a first-time buyer learning on your business.

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Mergers & acquisitions across the team
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Laundromats launched across the U.S.
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Years operating laundromats & dry cleaners

Valemont is led by operators with C-suite experience at Queen City Laundry, CSC ServiceWorks, and Duds & Suds, and a board that has run public companies and closed transactions from hundreds of thousands to billions.

Owner guides

Answers owners look up before they call anyone.

What a store is worth, how a sale works, and what buyers check. Written by the people who buy, for owners in the 194 cities and 50 states we cover.