| Many carwash industry analysts wonder what the | | | | Industry together since it is so diverse. Having been |
| future will be. There is much debate on this amongst | | | | to every city in the US over 10,000 population; We |
| carwash owners, suppliers and industry analysts. | | | | can say that, no two regions are so similar that you |
| Recently we were asked our perception of what the | | | | would make a cookie cutter business model and go |
| future of the carwash industry will bring in the United | | | | for it.We do recommend buying more and building |
| States. The inquisitive chap wished to invest heavily | | | | fewer. There are significant hassles in building from |
| into the industry and buy and/our build carwashes | | | | scratch and the lost time means lost sales. If you are |
| throughout Tennessee.Well we have not seen any | | | | to build car washes, you need pre-fab, smaller units |
| carwash industry reports, which we feel to be | | | | and ballsy expansion growth and watch for closed |
| complete enough to use as a basis for the decision | | | | market good ole' boy networks unless you are big |
| making process of to green light a project or say NO | | | | guns going in and that means more legal and lawyer |
| GO. Tennessee itself has a decent customer base | | | | costs when you butt heads with city planning |
| and it is a good market indeed. There is so much | | | | commissions. If you are going to attempt to slam |
| information out there in all the trade journals, internet | | | | markets in that way, lock and load and play to win, |
| and trade shows, but most is not good enough in my | | | | because they are. We are, everyone is. Consider this |
| humble opinion.More importantly our belief is to look | | | | in 2006.Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum |
| regionally market-by-market, rather than lump the | | | | board. |