In the mid 1980s, Graeme and Vivienne Flexman left their home and friends in New Zealand, traveled across the world to the United States, and started an Aire-Master franchise. Since then, the Flexmans have contributed to Aire-Master by starting additional franchises, as well as working in our corporate divisions. It was in Eugene, Oregon, that the Flexmans met the Lawther family. Lopaka Lawther and his brother, Kawika, were small children at the time, and they became friends with the Flexmans’ son, Mike.

Over the years, Lopaka and Kawika have kept in contact with Mike, who works with Graeme in Aire-Master of Arizona. It is through Mike that they learned more about Aire-Master as a potential business opportunity. Aire-Master of Honolulu is now the first AM franchise off the US/ Canada mainland. We want to congratulate Lopaka and Kawika on their investment of time to work out the logistics of opening the first Aire-Master franchise in Hawaii.

Most of Aire-Master’s franchises have started this way — not through marketing campaigns, but through people and their trusted relationships with each other. Aire-Master has built a market-leading brand through trusted relationships with our customers.

We now have 86 individual franchise locations, with 4 company-owned locations. Only ten more to reach 100!

Aire-Master has been participating in the Adopt-A-class school program as part of the Nixa Chamber of Commerce since its inception in 1998. This school year, Aire-Master partnered with Mrs. Rauch’s and Mr. Snowden’s 5th grade classes at Inman Intermediate School in Nixa, Missouri. Each month students were introduced to products and services as part of Aire-Master’s training program, called Stinkie University. This school-to-work partnership helped students learn how Aire-Master helps businesses solve their commercial hygiene needs.

Students learned about the sense of smell, deodorants and perfumes, deodorant products vs. air fresheners, hand soaps and sanitizers, odor control and scent branding. Each class participated in hands-on projects such as graphing fragrance evaporation, handwashing to eliminate the spread of germs, colds vs the flu, battery and motor testing, hand soaps vs hand sanitizers, and insect control.

On April 25, the 2012 Adopt-A-Class program culminated with a site visit to Aire-Master of America’s corporate offices and manufacturing facility in Nixa. Students were able to manufacture their own hand sanitizer through the use of math and science. They calculated the formulas, selected fragrances, and color and mixed ingredients to produce a finished product for each class.  Each student graduated from Stinkie University with a degree in “Odorology” — the science of gettin’ rid of those funky little stinks.

Aire-Master can help make any fly problem manageable by using a combination of safe, effective insect control products to establish a line of defense against the vile offenders. We offer a simple monthly service that will create a no-fly zone in your establishment.

Contact your local service representative to set up the right program for you.

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U.S. Senator Roy Blunt paid us a visit last week. He was in the area to talk about jobs, the economy, and government spending. KOLR10 posted the video above, along with this story that mentioned our recent warehouse expansion:

Aire-Master specializes in room deodorizer machines and commercial hygiene service.  Aire-Master has had exponential growth in the creation of package retail products for companies in the cleaning, personal care and hunting industries. To keep up with that growth it recently added a 40-thousand square foot warehouse.

Aire-Master has expanded into a second warehouse location in Nixa, Missouri. The new warehouse is just over a mile from our main facility on Highway CC in Nixa.

Our contract manufacturing business has grown over the last few years, and our shipping department had run out of room. We now have 40,000 square feet dedicated to that part of our business, with room to grow. The original warehouse, which is part of our national headquarters office and manufacturing facility, will continue to provide shipping services to our franchise system.

Aire-Master built its Nixa headquarters building in 1980, after being based in Springfield, Missouri, for many years. The building has been expanded and remodeled several times since then.

Aire-Master is an FDA registered manufacturer. We make and package retail products for companies in the cleaning, personal care and hunting industries, in addition to our own Nuvera brand of products. We also have a growing franchise system, which provides odor control and commercial hygiene services.

Mitch is not only a tremendously productive sales person, he is also an upbeat, enthusiastic team member. Congrats, Mitch!

• Restroom sinks
• Food court tables
• Escalator handrails
• ATM keypads
• Toy stores
• Fitting rooms
• Gadget shops
• Makeup samples

Read the entire article for the details of how you can get infected in each of these locations — and how to protect yourself. We might also recommend taking some Hand Sanitizer with you as you shop.