Gary Glover, President of Puritan, enters via the red carpet for the Retail Merchants Association Annual Awards celebration. Puritan came away with the top award: Distinguished Retailer Of The Year. High standards in business and extensive charity work were cited as reasons to name Puritan with this accolade. "I'm embarrassed to get this award," said Glover. "This is for the 220 employees at Puritan. I'm honored to accept it on their behalf."

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Puritan Cleaners has earned the Award of Excellence for quality garment cleaning and customer service from the Clothing Care Council. The Clothing Care Council is an association that provides independent verification of service standards in the dry cleaning industry. Puritan passed a rigorous set of cleaning and service evaluations to achieve this status and was the only cleaner to be so honored in the Central Virginia region.

Puritan received the Ukrops Community Service Award from Commonwealth Catholic Charities of Virginia. Programs like Coats For Kids, 100,000 Meals for Kids, Great Bears for Kids in Danger, and the Cinderella Project were all sited as great community successes. Gary Glover accepted the award from Bob Ukrop (left) on behalf of Puritan, and credited the Puritan employees as the reason for the success of these programs.

Puritan Cleaners has been voted the Best Dry Cleaner in Richmond for over 20 consecutive years. More convenience for you makes us the market leader year after year. Thanks for voting us again.

Puritan joined the Central Virginia Food Bank for the 100,000 Meals for Kids program. Food and cash donations exceeded the 30,000 meal mark in our first year. Fay Lohr, Chief Executive Officer of the CVFB, presents the award to Puritan's Norman Way.

Norman Way (left) of Puritan has achieved the title of Certified Environmental Drycleaner from the International Fabricare Institute (IFI). This program involves a rigorous course of study, followed by a three hour written exam. As a Certified Environmental Drycleaner, Norman can provide up-to-date information on environmental issues and regulations, and will oversee that Puritan maintains the Professional Standards of Certified Cleaners, which helps insure an environmentally safe operation.

Barbara received this national award for outstanding management of her laundry. Pictured with Barbara (3rd from the left) are Jenny Dominguez, Shelia Bagby, and Eva Santos (left to right).

Puritan's Gary Glover accepts the award from the Virginia Recycling Association. Our customers help us to recycle over 70,000 hangers per month. We offer free hanger caddies at all of our locations.  Recycling hangers saves needed land fill space and keeps our environment cleaner.