John Armstrong is Director and Co-owner of printwear and branding specialists, Custom Planet. Here, he gives his top tips for choosing a uniform for your cleaning business. When you run a business, there will be plenty of things you have ...

Krupa Solanki and Ellie Walker have been named as the recipients of the CHSA’s 2018 Undergraduate Bursaries. These bursaries have been awarded following the CHSA Council’s decision earlier in the year to award up to two bursaries every year for ...

VClean Life, the UK’s first entirely 100 per cent green-cleaning facility will begin operations today (12 September) in Watford, marking the dry-cleaning industry’s shift to a future without perchloroethylene (PERC). The multi-million pound VClean Life hub will be the first ...

Global facility services provider, ISS, has reached an agreement to divest its non-core single-service cleaning portfolio in the Netherlands to Dutch cleaning company CSU. As one of the largest cleaning companies in the Netherlands, CSU is well-known and a respected ...

Four years into its relationship with PizzaExpress, Specialist Window Cleaning (SWC), part of Incentive FM Group, has been awarded a further two-year contract extension with the restaurant giant. This is the third time that the contract has been extended. Under ...

ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, has announced the launch of ISSA Next Gen. This program replaces the previous ISSA Young Executive Society (YES) program. The goal of ISSA Next Gen is to improve ISSA member benefits and increase participation ...

The cleaning industry is experiencing increasing competition on a global scale. The commoditisation of products is giving customers more choice and purchasing power. As profit margins decline, businesses that rely on traditional sales tactics, such as discounting and cold-calling, are ...

Soft services and contract cleaning specialist, Facilicom UK, has appointed Peter Buff as its new Director of Operations. Buff, who brings over 20 years’ leadership experience in the outsourcing and business services sectors, holding senior roles spanning operations, account development ...

Total Solutions Group, a multi-million-pound, independently-owned, company which was launched by Sharmin Akter in 2014 has created SOLVED365, a brand new franchise specialising in commercial cleaning. SOLVED365 will offer exclusive franchise territories to ambitious franchisees who, with full training in Total ...

Xeros Technology Group plc, the UK-headquartered technology business and innovator of a near-waterless laundry system, has supplied 32 near-waterless washing machines to Encom Trading LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Electro RAK, a leading UAE-based infrastructure services company and the ...