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Sweeping Contractors for 2012.

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April, Arrowhead Sweeping

Paul Lemmon, the president of Arrowhead Parking Services, entered the sweeping industry via an unlikely background. Drawing on his background in law enforcement – which included stints with both Canadian Customs and with Immigration – he started as a consultant helping customers make sure their business signage conformed to legal guidelines.

However, after a few years of listening to customers' needs, he decided to expand his firm into more hands-on areas of actually installing any needed signage. Then, it wasn't much of a leap to start assisting in another pervasive area of need, construction and parking lot sweeping.

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March, Commercial Sweeping, Inc.

It's quite a stretch from being a wholesale mortgage broker in Nevada to running a sweeping contracting business in Oregon, but that's how Eddie Hamilton got his start in the industry.

Soon after having surgery for skin cancer he got a call asking him to come to Oregon to 'package up' a business so it could be sold. Knowing nothing about sweeping – but figuring that business was business – Hamilton saw the opportunity as something he could do and a way to get out of the mortgage business. Two years later, Hamilton decided to buy the company he'd made a success.

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February, Best Sweeping Specialists, Inc.

Although Tim Skinner has operated his sweeping company for over two decades, his first ride in the sweeper occurred almost twenty years previously. After dropping out of college and spending time at home, his stepmother gave him three choices: go back to school, get a job or join the Army during the Vietnam conflict.

Our feature article discusses how Skinner, one night soon after that, filled out an employment application with a company that swept the Chicago expressways. Half an hour later he had been hired as a labor and found himself bouncing down the Dan Ryan Expressway riding shotgun in an Elgin Pelican. How he got to where he is today involves a series of even better stories.

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January, Quiet Sweep, Ltd.

Eight years ago, Steve Dekelbaum had a good handle on the course that his future business life would take. He'd gotten his pastry chef certificate in 2004 and was utilizing it in the family business. At the same time, he managed the shopping center where their business was located. However, that's when fate stepped in.

Our feature article on the company discusses how, in the seven years since Dekelbaum and his wife purchased the company, Quiet Sweep has grown from three beat-up sweepers and five accounts to a 21-sweeper, 200 properties cleaned per night operation. And, they've added a host of other services on the way to becoming a force for event cleanup in their Washington, DC, area.

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Be sure to also take a look at our previous Contractors of the Month.

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