NORTH AMERICAN CHEM-DRY SONOMA - Key Persons
Meet Mike Rivera, Owner, and Operator of North American Chem-Dry, serving the Sonoma area. Mike has been an industry expert since 1986 and grew his company from one franchise in San Francisco to three covering Sonoma and San Mateo Counties as well. Mike was born in San Juan Puerto Rico in 1964 and his family moved to San Francisco in early 1965. Among Mike's hobbies are skeet shooting, bicycle riding, scuba diving and just hanging out and enjoying the scenery. Mike has been married and has one daughter who is his pride and joy.
Robert Harris, founder of the Chem-Dry brand, was working his way through law school in the 1907's by cleaning carpets for a different company. After gaining experience in the field, he noticed some improvements that could be made in the cleaning process used. Harris' research stretched into many years of studying the chemical properties and reactions of a variety of cleaning formulas combined with experimentation that required him to continually clean carpets with a succession of cleaning formulations.
Eventually, Robert Harris discovered the ideal cleaning formula. This formula features the power of carbonation, which provides a deep clean that is also safe and non-toxic. Harris founded Chem-Dry and soon the demand for his superior cleaning services grew exponentially. His entrepreneurial journey blossomed into a thriving success that has continued to grow since those first days in the early '70s. From the very first small group of franchise locations, the original Chem-Dry network has expanded over recent decades to offer thousands of successful franchises throughout the world, including North American Chem-Dry based out of Sonoma, CA.
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- History of the Chem - Dry Brand