00:01As a young boy, I loved ironing.
00:04The story goes when my father comes back
in the evening from work and his friends
00:09ask him, your shirts are still crisp and
clean and looking so spick and span.
00:15And my father would say,
it's Ibukun does the nice ironing.
00:18So what my father's friends did was,
they washed their clothes at home,
00:21stiffened them, starched them at home and
bring them for me to iron.
00:35My name is Eni Ibukun Adebayo.
00:37The name of my company
is CleanAce Drycleaners.
00:40And we do dry cleaning,
laundry, tailor repairs and
00:44we clean furniture, we clean bags,
we clean shoes, teddy bears.
00:48We clean anything worth cleaning.
00:55We came from a very humble background.
00:58We actually started washing
the clothes with our own bare hands.
01:01My wife and
I in the little apartment where we lived.
01:06>From there, we got the first shop and
on and on and on.
01:11I have the pedigree of my grandfather.
01:13He used to be a washerman for the European
railroad workers when they were
01:18constructing the railway lines in Nigeria,
way back in the 1950s.
01:24After they finished with
the railroad project,
01:26my grandfather started a laundry business.
01:33My father was schooled, educated,
he was a chartered accountant.
01:37But he said he wanted to also
keep his father's dream alive.
01:42He imported about a 120 units of washing
machines and about 30 tumble dryers.
01:51When I finished from the university and
my father asked me what I wanted to do.
01:55He was so surprised when I told him
I just wanted to continue in the dry
02:01I loved clothes so much.
02:02Looking after clothes for
02:04others, I didn't even care about
the kind of clothes I wore.
02:11The dry cleaning industry in
Nigeria has no foundation.
02:14When I mean a foundation,
there is no process, there is no standard,
02:18there is no institute,
there's no association.
02:21Everybody's just doing his own thing.
02:23That's one of the reason why today,
we have founded the CleanAce Academy so
02:27that we can train people for
everybody in the industry.
02:31So now we have the CleanAce Academy,
we are training people,
02:34developing all the entrepreneurs.
02:36We're not just only solving our own
problem, we're solving every other
02:41person's need when it comes to staff and
business processes.
02:45If it's worked for me,
it's going to work for thousands.
02:52The CleanAce Foundation and
02:54Academy gives the knowledge of
professional dry cleaning to everybody.
03:00You've got the knowledge, you've got the
understanding of the business processes,
03:03you can go there and make it better.
03:05We have the opportunity to create
employment for people working with us and
03:10those whose graduated, they can go and
start a CleanAce with our support.
03:14And they can go and employ more people,
they can go back to their homelands,
03:18they can go into the hinterlands,
even decide to go outside Nigeria.
03:23Go everywhere, plants the seed,
let the trees grow,
03:26take the seeds from there,
go plant elsewhere.
03:28The heavens will be the limit.
03:33Right now Nigeria is in a recession,
but I'll tell you in CleanAce,
03:36our sales just keep going up.
03:38They might not have enough
money to buy new clothes, but
03:40they got enough money to
maintain the old ones they got.
03:43So it's a good industry we're planning,
it's a good time for us.
03:47It's basically about finding your passion,
03:50having the right support and the knowledge
that can help you gets there.
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