Business: Retail dry-cleaning chain with eight stores in the Twin Cities. It's also a franchisee of California-based Fabric Restoration Team, doing business as FRSTeam, which involves cleaning fabrics damaged by fire or flood.
FOUNDED: 1938
HEADQUARTERS: ST. PAUL
Website: www.andersoncleaners.net
Executive: President and CEO Jim Rossman
Employees: 42
2008 revenue: $2.15 million
Quote: "I didn't have a clue about what's involved, what equipment was required, what the best soaps, solvents and deodorizers were." -- Rossman, explaining why he bought a FRSTeam franchise when he decided to get into the fabric restoration business after retail dry-cleaning sales began to decline.
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