Click here to read our recent press release regarding our Hallak Cleaner’s winning facility! Thank you to American Drycleaner Magazine!  

  Throughout the year, we try to do our best in supporting various charities and local community organizations.  Last week, we shipped out a box full of items to ensure a perfect holiday care package to our troops through the Rutgers Holiday Drive.  You can do the same with many other programs such as this one. Some items that we suggest: hand and feet warmers, individual hand sanitizers, playing cards, magazines,..and candy canes for some holiday cheer! Let’s all have a wonderful start to this holiday season!

Today, we were excited about a visit from fellow members of the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists –  Mr. Leema and Mrs. Dudu Mofokeng, from Pretoria, South Africa. After attending advanced classes at the Drycleaning and Laundry Institute in Maryland, they stopped by to spend the morning with us at our main plant. With professional backgrounds in other businesses, they have spent the past three years building a successful dry cleaning and laundry operation in their home country. They are very passionate about this industry and is was a real pleasure to spend some time together. They are preparing to build a brand new and expanded facility in Pretoria from the ground up. All of us at Hallak wish them the very best with their exciting project!  

We would like to introduce you to the newest member of our family…the SystemK4.  While we won’t go into the mechanics of this innovative cleaning system, we will tell you it allows us to continue providing eco-friendly yet high quality fabric care.  This revolutionary new solvent is biodegradable. Although gentle to fabric, it is effective enough to deliver the highest level of cleaning performance.  In August of this year, we invested $75,000 in a brand new cleaning machine especially designed for this new solvent.  Visit www.hallakcleaners.com to learn more about the K4 and other ways we do our part to be responsible stewards of our environment.    

While our previous vans were eye-catching, we think you really are going to love our new look. Let us know what you think?  

Throughout the year, we silently reach out to our community in various ways.  However, it is times like these that we reach out to our customers as well for a little added support. On behalf of www.kidsdonations.org, we will be collecting items such as NEW clothing (socks, tees), back-to-school items (pens, notebooks, crayons) and personal hygiene products (bars of soap, shampoo, toothbrushes) from September 2nd -16th.  Items can be dropped off at either retail locations in Manhattan or Hackensack …or be picked up with your laundry pick-up. Please call or email (info@hallak.com) us with any questions you may have. Thank you to all who donate and/or are doing their own part in other ways. Our thoughts are with you and the many flood victims in our area.

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It was  five years ago yesterday, that George Hallak passed away.  He was the brother of our father, Joseph Hallak, Senior.  George spent his entire life in the dry cleaning business – beginning in the Bronx, and then moving to Teaneck, NJ.  He sold his business in 2001 and we had the pleasure of having our Uncle George as part of the Hallak Cleaners team for the last five years of his life.  Everyone who worked at his side loved him, and his contagious smile and constant exuberance are greatly missed by all who had the privilege and pleasure of knowing him.   John-Claude and Joseph, Jr.  

Read about our recycling initiative to help the Making Headway Foundation

Experience Necessary A Well-Dressed Dry Cleaner, Just Like Dad By ROBIN FINN John-Claude Hallak knows the proper way to press trousers, coax a spot from a wedding gown, or restore a carpet to its original glory. He is a second-generation dry cleaner; his parents, Joseph and Marie-Louise, opened Hallak Cleaners on the Upper East Side in 1966. (His mother, widowed in 1992, is the president.) Mr. Hallak, 54, who has a master’s degree in economics from Rutgers University, joined the company in 1982; he and his younger brother, Joseph, 49, are both vice presidents. He lives in Basking Ridge, N.J., with his wife, Michelle, and their 16-year-old twin sons. Destined to clean: I was doomed to be in the family business. I remember being about 8 and asking my father if I could go to work with him on a Saturday and him telling me, ‘If you come with me,