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title: "Air Force Veteran Family Opens Office Pride Cleaning Franchise in East Virginia"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/dd14e2d0-f53a-4ac7-8d73-17b80815f8f7
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20230914_air_force_veteran_family_opens_office_pride_cleaning_franchise_in_east_virg.html
category: "Cleaning & maid"
industry: "Home Services"
segment: "Cleaning & maid"
topics: ["Development & multi-unit"]
published: 2023-09-14T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-10-31T20:04:18.407Z
image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1503387762-592deb58ef4e?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop
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# Air Force Veteran Family Opens Office Pride Cleaning Franchise in East Virginia

**TL;DR:** Deborah Kennedy and her family have launched an Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services franchise in East Virginia. The family has a background in the U.S. Air Force and significant business experience working with the federal government and large companies.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2023-09-14. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20230914_air_force_veteran_family_opens_office_pride_cleaning_franchise_in_east_virg.html).*

## Story

Before joining Office Pride, four of the five family members served in the U.S. Air Force and have significant business experience working with the federal government and other large companies.

“Our goal is to earn the trust and respect of our community, colleagues and partners to become the commercial cleaning service provider of choice in our territory – one ZIP code at a time,” said Niki Scott, who is one of the family members involved in the franchise. “Our business philosophy is, ‘We are all in this together.’ We are personally invested in the cleanliness of every facility we service.”

The Kennedy family includes Deborah and Marshall Kennedy, along with their daughters Chikara Kennedy, Niki Scott and Kalesha Hester. They work together to provide a full range of janitorial services for industries that have a focus on military, government, medical, educational, religious and financial

Services include touchless sanitizing, sweeping and vacuuming, wet and dry mopping, secure trash removal, restroom sanitization, disinfection, dusting, blinds cleaning, restroom replenishment, glass cleaning and the cleaning of walls, ceilings and baseboards.

“We understand what it means to entrust the keys to your business to someone else, and we work every day to earn that trust and keep you and your team healthy and safe at work,” Chikara Kennedy said.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- Home Services (sector)
- franchise launch (topic)
- commercial cleaning (topic)
- Office Pride (company)
- veteran-owned business (topic)
- East Virginia (location)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20230914_air_force_veteran_family_opens_office_pride_cleaning_franchise_in_east_virg.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/dd14e2d0-f53a-4ac7-8d73-17b80815f8f7).