Mark Lewis, Corporate Sales Manager, received the TRSA Volunteer Leadership Award at the association's Annual Conference & Exhibits 2011. TRSA is the national association of the textile rental services industry, whose members provide uniform rental and linen services to business and industry across the United Sates and Canada.

The Volunteer Leadership Award ackowledges the contributions of TRSA volunteer leaders that have contributed their time and energy for the better of the industry by sharing their knowledge and experience to support TRSA's education, training, information-sharing, benchmarking and research and selected by the TRSA Board and staff.

Lewis was a featured speaker at the Conference. He lead discussion on TRSA's new "Clean Green" accreditation program, which focuses on best practices for reducing energy and water consumption and sustainability that reduces a laundry's impact on the environment.

Soap in the Veins: 50 Years at Dempsey Uniform & Linen Supply, written by CorporateHistory.Net, earned a 2011 Apex Grand Award for Special Publications. Tough judging is a hallmark of this program, which set the highest standards in the corporate communications field. Dempsey commissioned the book to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2009.

• APEX 2011 Grand Award Winners          • CorporateHistory.net

In February 2011, PPL Electric Utilities entered Dempsey into its E-power® Energy-Smart Business Honor Roll. With this award, PPL recognized Dempsey's recent energy-saving efforts in its production facilities. "This organization has demonstrated the kind of awareness and commitment that will lead our communities to better energy and environmental practices today and into the future," writes David DeCampli, President, PPL Electric Utilities Corporation.

• E-power Business Honor Roll (link)
• PPL Welcomes Dempsey to Energy-Smart Honor Roll (pdf)