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title: "Navy Veteran Opens Office Pride Franchise in Birmingham"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/dc8e7cea-6838-4748-bd68-f47c96e7513e
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20201019_navy_veteran_opens_office_pride_franchise_in_birmingham.html
category: "Cleaning & maid"
industry: "Home Services"
segment: "Cleaning & maid"
topics: ["Development & multi-unit"]
published: 2020-10-19T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T22:33:21.195Z
image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1507679799987-c73779587ccf?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop
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# Navy Veteran Opens Office Pride Franchise in Birmingham

**TL;DR:** Navy veteran Van Sims has opened an Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services franchise in Birmingham, Alabama. The franchise provides routine janitorial services and a full range of commercial cleaning services to offices, medical facilities, and other commercial properties.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2020-10-19. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20201019_navy_veteran_opens_office_pride_franchise_in_birmingham.html).*

## Story

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Van Sims, a Navy veteran, has opened Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services of Birmingham-Trussville, an independently owned and operated commercial cleaning franchise.

Office Pride of Birmingham-Trussville provides routine janitorial services and a full range of commercial cleaning services to offices, medical facilities, schools, churches, banks and other commercial properties in Birmingham, Trussville and the surrounding areas. The franchise also offers specialty services such as floor stripping, carpet cleaning and electrostatic spray treatment, which disinfects common areas, personal spaces and hard-to-reach corners and crevices. Electrostatic sprayers are vital in the fight against COVID-19, flu and other respiratory illnesses.

A proud alumnus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Sims brings more than 25 years of experience in operations to his new position as owner and director of operations for his Office Pride location. He worked as district service manager with Acelity, a medical device company, for more than 21 years. He also previously was the onsite operations manager for Turner Supply, a distributor of maintenance, repair and operations products at Honda of Alabama manufacturing plant; and as operations manager with Processors Choice Inc., a food ingredient distributor.

“I look forward to serving our community, sharing my experience and creating opportunities for others,” he said. “Owning my own business also provides a Office Pride of Birmingham-Trussville will focus on quality customer service, Sims said. “We will deliver what we promise!”

Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services, based in Palm Harbor, Florida, is one of the most respected full-service commercial cleaning companies in the nation. Office Pride’s business was built on a strong set of core values that ensures business is conducted with integrity and that every customer receives the highest level of commercial cleaning and janitorial services.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- Home Services (sector)
- franchise opening (topic)
- Office Pride (company)
- veteran-owned business (topic)
- Birmingham (location)
- Honda (company)
- commercial cleaning services (topic)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20201019_navy_veteran_opens_office_pride_franchise_in_birmingham.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/dc8e7cea-6838-4748-bd68-f47c96e7513e).