R&B Wire Products Announces Oldest Cart Contest Winners

By PlanetLaundry staff | Jun 15, 2011

R&B Wire Products, Inc., based in Santa Ana, Calif., announced the winners of the company’s “Oldest R&B Laundry Cart Contest” at the Clean Show in Las Vegas.

“We were very excited to have the number of responses to the contest that we did, and there are still some very old R&B carts out there still in operation,” said CEO Rick Rawlins. “I guess we make a pretty solid laundry cart!”

The winners are:

First Place: Matt Mathieu, Highlander Center Laundry, Jacksonville, Ill.

Mathieu was the clear winner with a cart he purchased back in 1962 – making that cart 49 years old and still in operation on a daily basis. The first-place prize was six R&B laundry carts.

Second Place: Brad Banta, The Coeur d’Alene Golf & Spa Resort, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Third Place: Paula Knapik, Rockford Washer, Rockford, Ill.

The second-place winner took home three new laundry carts from R&B, while the third-place prize was one cart.

“We are very pleased with the outstanding response to the “Oldest R&B Cart Contest” and want to thank everyone who participated for their support,” said Frank Rowe, vice president of sales and marketing. “This contest was a fun way to celebrate our 65th anniversary and also tie it in with Clean ’11. There was some tough competition out there.”