REM Company, Inc.

It all started at a restaurant in Lexington, then moved to the kitchen table of Bob and Carol Moore’s apartment. Later it overtook their garage and their barn. Now, some 40 years later, the Moores have grown their business into a booming enterprise housed in a 15,000-square-foot building with about 40 employees. The WoodfordCounty couple, owners of REM Company Inc., a regional distributor of UniMac industrial laundry equipment, grossed more than $7 million last year and celebrated the company’s 20th consecutive year at the top of its class in sales and services. Versailles-based REM sells, installs, services and repairs industrial washers — some of which hold up to 800 pounds of laundry, along with dryers, ironers and other laundry equipment for hotels and motels, schools, jails, sports teams, horse farms, nursing homes and car washes in Kentucky and Tennessee. The company also designs industrial laundry operations!