SUPERWASH SALES DROPPED 40 AT ROADWORKS PEAK

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

A LEADING businessman yesterday said sales for his impacted outlets slumped by 40 per cent at the New Providence Road Improvement Project's peak, telling Tribune Business the main Argentinean contractor "made a mistake" in not hiring more Bahamian supervisors and sub-contractors.

Dionisio D'Aguilar said that while the top-line at his Superwash laundroma...

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'Outrageous' bank fees slammed

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

A FORMER Chamber of Commerce president yesterday blasted Bahamian commercial banks for imposing "astronomical and outrageous" hidden fees that he took four months to pick up on, and urged the Government and regulators to implement greater oversight of an industry he described as "a cartel".

Dionisio D'Aguilar, president of the Superwash laundromat chain,...

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250k energy costs rise causes '2011 'write off'

Superwash is set for a year-over-year $250,000 increase in energy costs based on expenditure so far, its president and former Chamber of Commerce chief, Dionisio D'Aguilar, said yesterday, as he admitted that despite slight sales increases he has "written off 2011" from a business perspective.

As a guest speaker at the Rotary Club of West Nassau, Mr D'Aguilar said that although signals are such...

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'Put boot to neck' of road contractor

A former Chamber of Commerce president believes modest year-over-year sales increases across his group for the first four months of 2011 indicate the economy has "bottomed out", as he again urged the Government to "put its boot to the neck of the contractor" spearheading the New Providence Road Improvement Project.

While group sales at his Superwash laundromat business were up by 1-2 per cent y...

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Ninja Assassin

• Genre : Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Rating : C - 18yrs and Older

A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan.

Superwash outlets robbed five times in 10 days

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

THE Superwash laundromat chain suffered five armed robberies in a 10-day period, prompting its president yesterday to describe the Bahamas as a "Wild, Wild West" society where "everybody is in fear", with the crime situation likely to get worse - not better - in coming months.

Dionisio D'Aguilar, a former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce president, while prai...

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'Catching Almighty Hell' from 15-18 revenue declines

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

Bahamian-owned businesses in the Grove and Robinson Road areas are being "strangled" and "catching Almighty Hell" as a result of the decision to carry out multiple roadworks at the same time, a former Chamber of Commerce president yesterday saying two of his outlets had seen sales drop 15-18 per cent as a result.

Dionisio D'Aguilar, president of Superwas...

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E-l@undry day

By STAFF WRITER
Guardian Business Desk

Bahamaslocal.com is taking steps to further establish its presence in the eastern part of the island through a synergetic relationship with Superwash. The companies are teaming up to offer WiFi service to customers of the laundromat.
Customers at Superwash on Prince Charles Drive can now go online while they do their washing. With their machine tokens, custo...

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2009 Visionary Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs Conference

Seasoned business leaders and financial experts including The Hon. Zhivargo Laing, Minister of State for Finance; Mr. Jerome Gomez, Fund Administrator of The Bahamas Entrepreneurial Venture Fund and a principal in the chartered accounting firm Baker Tilly Gomez; Mr. Dionisio D?Aguilar, Immediate Past President of The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and President of Super Wash Laundromat and Chairman o...

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Visionaries? Anastasia Stubbs presents Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette with ?live the vision? series!

In a continuing effort to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of The Bahamas, Visionaries Wealth Management & Business Show Executive Producer and Host, Anastasia Stubbs recently paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Honourable Brent Symonette at his office on West Bay Street. Stubbs presented the Deputy Prime Minister with a personal copy of Live ...

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