about us | newsletter | contact | archive | members area
Nicolae Ghibu, Certsign
Regulations will come gradually and will cover all areas»
  News:      POLITICS   |   ECONOMICS   |   ENERGY   |   INVESTMENTS   |   APPOINTMENTS   |   INFRASTRUCTURE   |   GREEN   |   REAL ESTATE   |   AGRIBUSINESS   |   DRIVING   |   CITY LIFE   |   EVENTS   |

Straight-to-door car wash cleans up

Green-friendly, convenient and sporting a social conscience - a new start-up makes car-washing easy, reports Michael BirdCars in Bucharest have a rough ride – persecuted by dirt from building sites, exhaust fumes, mud in the winter and dust in the summer – not to mention stray dogs marking their ownership of every bumper in a less than dignified fashion

February 2009 - From the Print Edition

A clean-up is a regular necessity. But risking the traffic to drive to the car wash can take hours out of a busy person’s schedule.
Here ex-journalist Raluca Nicoara realised a space in the market in which to manoeuvre – a mobile car-cleaning service. A driver can stay inside their home or workplace, call up Nicoara’s new business, Blink Wash, and a team of two will arrive at the door, clean the car’s outside in a chemical solution, wipe the windscreens, mirrors and the dashboards, vacuum the carpets, then perfume and wax the car.
Not only convenient, Blink Wash also displays green credentials. The business uses a Brazilian system of car-washing discovered by Nicoara from the Internet – a plastic three-wheel trolley filled with biodegradable cleaning products, which is self-sufficient in energy and water. While a typical car wash uses around 100 litres of water per vehicle, Blink Wash has reduced this to five.
Nicoara employs young men living in hostels or children’s homes, such as Bucharest’s Sfantul Petru si Pavel orphanage. Angered by the number of youngsters without families who are exploited by local employers, she offers a fair deal to her staff - they receive a decent salary, plus food tickets, a mobile phone, on-the-job training and she is also looking to give them private medical insurance. “I want a big family business.” says Nicoara, “and to coach new employees to take on future managerial roles.”
Services which are simple, eco-friendly and with a social conscience often factor in these moral benefits at a higher price, but Blink Wash can clean-up the car’s interior, exterior and throw in a wax for a highly competitive eight Euro.
So is Nicoara making money? “We’re already looking to expand,” she says.

Blink Wash
Tel 0722 349 740
www.blinkwash.ro



COMMENTS
'.$nr_comm.' comment:
'; } else { echo 'There are '.$nr_comm.' comments:
'; } while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)) { echo '
'.$row['nume'].": on ".$row['data']."
"; //echo str_replace('\n','
',$row['comentariu']); echo nl2br($row['comentariu']); echo '
'; } ?>

0 Comments  |  6895 Views
Daily Info
Smart city is not a fad, it's a necessity

In June 2018, the ranking of the most "smart" cities in the world was published. In other words, the most advanced cities in terms of human capital, social cohesion, the econo...

Ondrej Safar, CEZ Group: "Romania can become a hub for international smart solutions providers"

"We are already in the digital age, so the upward trend of implementing smart solutions is inevitable in all areas," he tells The Diplomat-Bucharest. "Especially in terms of u...

Telekom Romania, a strong supporter of Smart City development in Romania

Just like many other countries in the world Romania is now facing an unprecedented growth of the urban population, which can be both beneficial and detrimental for the society...

In the industrial era, the fight was for finite material resources. Not anymore

Now organizations fight and develop themselves for and around their talent. In a nutshell, getting ahead in today's business world is all about attracting and inspiring an e...

Richard Sareczky, Mol Limo: "We look at expansion locations across CEE including Romania"

Consumer mobility behaviour is changing, leading to up to one out of ten cars sold in 2030 potentially being a shared vehicle and the subsequent rise of a market for fit-for-p...

 
 
   
advertising

advertising

advertising

More on News
President Iohannis urges Romanians to be more united, stay involved in modernizing Romania

Romania's President Klaus Iohannis urged Romanians in France to be more united and stay involved as much as they are now in helping modernise Romania.

2 Comments

Dacia receives 115.8 million RON in state aid from the Finance Ministry

The Romanian Finance Ministry has signed five more grant agreements under the state aid scheme, and among the beneficiaries are Automobile Dacia, with RON 115.8 million.

1 Comment

EBRD cuts economic growth forecast for Romania

Romania's economy will grow by 4.2 per cent this year and by 3.6 per cent in 2019, according to the most recent forecast released by the European Bank for Reconstruction an...

1 Comment

OTP Bank Romania signs investment funds distribution deal with Eurobank Fund Management Luxembourg

OTP Bank Romania signed a partnership with Eurobank Fund Management Company (Luxembourg) for the distribution of investment funds in Romania. Thus, from December 1st, OTP B...

Fondul Proprietatea expresses disappointment over Engie listing rejection

Fondul Proprietatea is disappointed with the decision taken by the majority shareholder of Engie SA, Romania Gas Holding B.V., to oppose the listing of the company, accordi...

1 Comment

Europe must become a producer of new technologies, not just a consumer of technologies, says EC

Europe must become a producer of new technologies, not just a consumer of technologies, said Gerard de Graaf, Director for the Digital Single Market in Directorate-General ...

1 Comment

FDI in Romania rises 10 per cent after ten months in 2018

Non-residents' direct investment in Romania (net FDI) totaled 4.56 billion Euro in January-October 2018, around 10 per cent more compared to the same period of 2017, Romani...

1 Comment