Chem-Dry, the world's largest floor clean­ing fran­chise, is open for busi­ness in T&T. The grow­ing fran­chise has lo­ca­tions in 49 coun­tries and con­tin­ues to ex­pand its ter­ri­to­ries to vir­tu­al­ly all cor­ners of the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket, mak­ing it the clear glob­al leader in floor and car­pet clean­ing.

Fran­chisee Alan Cox will over­see the T&T lo­ca­tions. In ad­di­tion to tar­get­ing Chem-Dry's tra­di­tion­al res­i­den­tial mar­ket, Cox is tar­get­ing high­er-end com­mer­cial busi­ness­es, which make up an un­der­served mar­ket seg­ment.

"One of the biggest chal­lenges for us is that we do not have car­pets, and Chem-Dry is very much known for its car­pet clean­ing strengths," Cox said.

"We see op­por­tu­ni­ties be­yond that, and we see the abil­i­ty for the clean­ing of so­fas and rugs and drapes, and all the hous­es that have tile and oth­er hard floor­ing sur­faces.

"Things do need to be cleaned pro­fes­sion­al­ly, and we're con­fi­dent that Chem-Dry's prod­ucts will lead the way in all of those ar­eas, not just car­pets. We have some ex­cit­ing plans to­geth­er, and Chem-Dry has been very open-mind­ed in our sug­ges­tions on how to pen­e­trate the com­mer­cial mar­ket here."

With more than 3,000 fran­chis­es, Chem-Dry cleans more than 10,000 homes and of­fices a day; T&T is the 49th coun­try for the icon­ic fran­chise sys­tem, which was found­ed in the Unit­ed States in 1977.

Once his T&T Chem-Dry fran­chise is up and run­ning, Cox hopes to pur­sue more Chem-Dry fran­chise op­por­tu­ni­ties in the Caribbean.

"As soon as we es­tab­lish our foot­print here, we have op­tions that will al­low us to ex­pand," he said.

"That's cer­tain­ly part of the rea­son for go­ing with Chem-Dry. We think re­gion­al­ly, not lo­cal­ly."

Cox's con­fi­dence in Chem-Dry's record of suc­cess as the world's largest floor clean­ing ser­vice is a ma­jor rea­son the mas­ter fran­chisee part­nered with the com­pa­ny. The fran­chise of­fers fran­chisees a wealth of train­ing and sup­port to help them learn how to in­crease their busi­ness and to make them more ef­fi­cient.

"Chem-Dry does have a sys­tem that is ef­fec­tive. It works," Cox said.

"They are very good at what they do, and the promis­es they put for­ward, they de­liv­er on.

"The whole pack­age, in­clud­ing the nat­ur­al prod­ucts, the ex­pe­ri­ence, the vol­ume of hous­es they clean, and the health rea­sons for clean­ing–if mar­ket­ed prop­er­ly, it presents a very well-round­ed pack­age for bet­ter suc­cess."