Edinburgh dry-cleaners scrub up in global and national industry awards

An Edinburgh dry-cleaners is celebrating after winning global and national industry awards.

Husband and wife duo Sarah and Kashif Sheikh own Elite Drycleaners

Leven Street’s Elite Dry-cleaners have received a Country Award at the Global Best Practice Awards Program this year after being nominated out of 150 extraordinary professional textile care companies from 40 countries.

The awards took place virtually last month from Amsterdam and were organised by CINET, the international umbrella organisation for Professional Textile Care (PTC).

All businesses were evaluated by the Independent International GBPA 2020 jury.

The awards function as a platform to the highest best practices in PTC and demonstrate the industry’s focus on high standards of quality, new business models, innovation, and sustainability.

The independent international jury appreciated Elite Drycleaners for their servicing concept focused on quality and organisation to fulfil customers' needs to the best of their abilities.

Elite Drycleaners also won the National Drycleaner/Wetcleaner of the Year Award for the third time at the Laundry and Drycleaning Awards (LADAs) 2020 which also took place virtually last month.

It adds to their previous achievements of Best Customer Service and Best Independent Drycleaner Awards which were National Industry awards organised by LCN (Laundry and Cleaning News).

The drycleaners have consistently won national and Scottish Awards since first entering in 2017 and are very proud to be recognised for their hard work.

They have demonstrated their commitment to professional textile care through their key values which is to provide their drycleaning, wetcleaning and laundry services in the most ethical and responsible manner and to deliver the best customer service they can to everyone using their services.

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