City Wide Opens Dallas/Ft. Worth Market
September 30, 2011City Wide Maintenance, the country’s leading franchise opportunity designed for sales and management professionals, announces it has awarded its last large territory in the state of Texas in Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Now located in 32 markets with the single corporate location, City Wide is proud to congratulate current City Wide franchisees Scott Brown and John Suranyi along with new partner Barry Stephenson as the new franchisees for City Wide of DFW. Their exclusive territory encompasses all of the Dallas and Fort Worth metropolitan areas.
Brown and Suranyi are both formerly from the telecommunications and broadcast media industries in addition to running three other City Wide locations; Seattle Wash., Austin and San Antonio Texas. Brown also separately owns City Wide Maintenance of Colorado. Stephenson has a strong history in sales and sales management and will hold the position of president for the new Texas location.
“We are very excited that both Scott and John are increasing their trust and investment in City Wide with the addition of a fourth location,” says Jeff Oddo, President of City Wide Franchise Company. “They have brought a strong partner to the table with Barry and we are thrilled about the experience and drive he brings to the team.”
City Wide Franchise Company offers a professional sales and management franchise opportunity within the building maintenance industry. City wide utilizes a unique business model to cross-sell and deliver 20+ services to its commercial clients, including janitorial, carpet cleaning, window washing, parking lot maintenance and tenant improvement. This wide array of services gives each owner more than 20 different ways to open a door for potential business.
City Wide focuses exclusively on the professional, B2B market by capitalizing on the growing business trend of “outsourcing.” Auto-renewing contracts offer compounding growth within a virtually recession proof industry. The City Wide Franchise model requires few employees to operate the business and requires little to no inventory or equipment investment.
City Wide Maintenance was founded in Kansas City, MO by Frank Oddo in 1961 and is now a national organization with multiple franchise locations. Current President Jeff Oddo, second generation owner of the family business, began franchising the company’s business model in 2001.
