North American Sweeper Magazine

NAPSA will offer member businesses and their employees a wealth of new learning opportunities in 2020, including a new certification course and many topic sessions at upcoming the National Pavement Expo! The North American Power Sweeping Association (NAPSA) is currently preparing to roll out several exciting new programs in January 2020. NAPSA actively engages sweeping […]

SCA serves the entire eastern United States from Michigan to the Louisiana gulf coast, to the New York Atlantic coast, to the Caribbean coast of southern Florida. All locations are owned by SCA, of which Chris Valerian is President, CEO, and Board Member of SCA. The story of SCA and its ownership is one of […]

According to the US Small Business Administration, small businesses contributed 65% of new job growth over the last two decades. The small business sector also accounted for 97.5% of all firms that export goods and services overseas (SBA.gov). With heavy influence on the US economy and in global markets, the federal government is unsurprisingly interested […]

1-800-SWEEPER has announced that Pete Phillips, of Clean Sweep in Chattanooga, TN is the newest Board of Director of the organization. Pete replaces Gerry Kesselring’s position on the Board and takes over on October 1st. Pete has been a partner of 1-800-SWEEPER since January of 2013 and has also served as President of NAPSA 2017-2018 […]

WEST CHESTER, PA, October 2019 — Oakmont Capital Services added two experienced finance professionals to their team in the Albany, Minnesota location. The independent financer continues to expand its business to offer customers fast, simple, and easy solutions. Oakmont Capital Services’ sales team is excited to welcome Adam Domke as a Business Development Officer. Formerly […]

Here’s an extraordinarily unlikely story of a young woman, Cheryl Meyer, who came to own a thriving enterprise in commercial pavement maintenance. She did it on her own — not by inheriting the family business. It’s not like any other history of company leadership we’ve heard in this rugged field. We couldn’t wait to hear […]

“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison In the business world, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to set goals, how to keep employees motivated, and what it takes to reach success. It is important to stay focused on the positive, but the […]

To grow a small pavement sweeping company usually requires little proactivity. Without a basic growth strategy, business owners can find themselves overworked while their businesses are underperforming. To improve sluggish growth rates, there are some low-cost and no-cost marketing solutions that can go a long way in helping hard-working entrepreneurs in highly competitive markets throughout […]

Charlotte-based equipment and accounts receivable finance company is the only company to be named to the North Carolina Mid-Market Fast 40 List for eight consecutive years. CHARLOTTE, NC (September 30, 2019) – For the eighth year in a row, equipment and accounts receivable finance company, Commercial Credit, Inc., parent company of Commercial Credit Group Inc. […]

Pete Phillips’ exceptional leadership skills, commitment to service business ethics, and willingness to help others have grown his business and made him an instrumental figure in the advancement of the commercial sweeping services segment of the US American service business subsector. Through his work with NAPSA (North American Sweeping Association), Phillips helps promote the principles […]