Two Maids & A Mop

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Two Maids
Company type Franchise
Industry Cleaning
Founded2003
Founder Ron Holt
Headquarters
Birmingham, Alabama [1]
,
United States
Key people
Ron Holt Founder, [2]
Website www.twomaidsfranchise.com

Two Maids is an American cleaning franchise based in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] The company was ranked #4 as a top job creator by Inc. in 2013. [3] It is also an Inc. 5000 company, ranking both for Top 100 Alabama Companies and Top 100 Consumer Products & Services Companies. [1] [4] [5]

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History

Two Maids was established in 2003 by Ron Holt. Holt purchased a small cleaning business that he branded into Two Maids [6] The company grew into 12 company-owned locations, with its first franchise location being in Tampa, Florida. [7] As of 2019, the company serves 91 markets across the United States. [4]

Partnership

The company is an active participant in Cleaning For A Reason, a national non-profit that partners with local cleaning businesses to provide cleaning services to cancer patients. [8] [9] In 2012, they were named Maid Service of the Year by Cleaning For A Reason for their work with the charity. [10]

Recognition

The company has been named a Stevie Award finalist in the Company of the Year – Diversified Services category for The 2015 American Business Awards. [11] In 2016, Inc. Magazine named Two Maids the fastest-growing cleaning company in America. [12] The residential cleaning service was ranked #11 on Entrepreneur magazine's Top 100 New Franchises list in 2018 [13] and was rated in the top two-thirds of the overall rankings on Entrepreneur's 2019 list. [14]

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  9. ↑ "Free house cleaning services offered to local women battling cancer". Knoxville Daily Sun. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
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