PM Maintenance is a Louisiana-based group owned by Anthony Pastorello. To his customers, however, as well as his part-time and full-time employees and managers, he is simply “Tony.” Unlike most owners though, he enjoys working alongside his employees on the job as much as he does meeting and conversing with old and new clients. From his perspective, what better way to know your customers (and your business) than to be on-site. Besides, he is the first to admit, “I really like what I do.”

Tony has always had close relations with the cleaning solution business, first when he assumed ownership of half the accounts of PMM (then under a different name), and then becoming a full owner the following year. As if this did not keep Tony busy enough, he would later undertake a second company in 2005, Dixie Chemical, a premier supplier of janitorial cleaning chemicals, institutional equipment, bath cleaners and deodorants. While both companies did exceedingly well under his management, Tony would eventually sell Dixie to A&L Sales, the same company that currently supplies PMM with all its private label cleaning products.

Prior to owning PMM and Dixie, Tony was in the restaurant business for 14 years. Throughout this period he had contact with a cleaning group that was servicing one of his restaurants.

Here he saw his opening to get involved in the janitorial business-one that had a special appeal to his entrepreneurial spirit. Working then as he does now, Tony would spend a few hours each week laboring alongside a staff that three months later would be on his payroll. One can say from that point on, PMM was on its way to its successful climb.

Because of his association with restaurants, PMM was cleaning a dozen or more restaurant facilities on a full time basis. Soon thereafter PMM would be hired to provide janitorial services to St. Tammany Hospital’s eight outpatient facilities, an opening that took the company in a new direction, and whose association continues today. Other medical work would follow, including dental offices, and then schools, government contracts, hair salons, office buildings, auto dealerships and other diversified businesses.

Aside from its basic janitorial services, PMM would add a host of other features that, bundled together, would bring to its clients a total package of professional cleaning expertise and supervision at a price to meet its customers’ bottom line. Quality products that he purchased through his distributor, A&L, would likewise be offered to his clients, and at savings appreciated by all.