North American Sweeper Magazine

Mister Sweeper was founded in 1965. Over the intervening half-century, they have earned a reputation for high-quality street sweeping service and have become the Lone Star State’s most trusted street sweeping company. Mister Sweeper has been in the business for 65 years at the time of this writing and their service area is absolutely massive. […]

As with many sweeping companies, LoRe Sweeping started out as a family business that has diversified, but in an unusual way. Begun by Carmen and Maryann LoRe in 1978 with a single walk-behind Billy Goat Sweeper, the company quickly expanded. As their daughter, Marisa, came of age and married her husband Chris Faiella, who had […]

The first time Hunter Hartman sat in a sweeper truck, he was only two. Perched in a car seat, he watched wide-eyed as his father took him for a ride. Decades later, it is no wonder that he’s now the president of CAM Services in Denver, Colorado. With family roots at the heart of everything […]

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, more commonly known as OSHA, employers pay about $1 billion per week for costs related to work injuries. On-the-job incidents risk the well-being of your employees, jeopardize profits, and threaten your ability to run a successful business. For many reasons, employee safety should be a critical concern […]

Ladybugs Parking Lot Sweeping Inc is a premier sweeping company located in Louisiana near Lafayette. It was created back in 2005 by a husband and wife team, that purchased the business from an associate of theirs in order to craft an improved life for their family. They have two young daughters and have made it […]

Though 1-800-SWEEPER has become an industry giant, it wasn’t always that way. What started as an option to make it easier for regional customers to reach Progressive Sweeping has grown into a national organization that provides lead generation, support, education, and networking for other contractors in the power sweeping industry. But how did it grow […]

Born in India and educated in the United States, Manvendra Saxena, or Manny as he prefers to be called, was working well at a private equity fund, Broadtree Partners, when the fund began looking at two family-owned and -operated sweeping services. Founded by Leonard Vella in 1958 at the very beginning of the sweeping industry, […]

How does taking over a friend’s side hustle turned into a wildly successful business? Growing up in a family full of entrepreneurs, is it any wonder that Darren Estrada of Jake’s Sweeping Tornados had the entrepreneurial spirit at a young age? After selling a prior business, Mr. Estrada was looking for a new opportunity when […]

With over 20 years of experience keeping parking lots clean in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, Charles Joseph has had his hands full building a solid sweeping company that has stood the test of time and will continue to see strong growth long into the future. Sweeping Growth Strategies At the center of All […]

Gale Holsman, President, and CEO of American Companies Inc., of which American Sweeping is a subsidiary has an arguably unparalleled track record. He has built an extraordinary Midwest corporation, with financially powerful tentacles reaching into just about every known site services industry. American Companies has flourished for over three and a half decades since 1984, […]