Informa Markets’ ISSA Show North America has named the recipients of the 2021 ISSA Show Innovation Awards at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. The Innovation Awards programme recognises the latest advancements for the commercial, institutional, and residential ...
Read More »Mitie awarded £92.5m deal at the John Radcliffe Hospital
Mitie has won a new contract to provide cleaning, portering services, and catering for patients and staff at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Worth £92.5 million over a five-year term, the contract has the option to extend for up ...
Read More »Chloe the robot joins Sodexo hospital cleaning team
Sodexo’s cleaning team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, has a new recruit of the robot variety who has been named Chloe by young patients on the children’s ward. Chloe the robot will be helping the ...
Read More »Treating office cleaning as a matter of health and safety
By James Carver, Managing Director, OSC The steady return of workers to offices across the country has been positive news for all. However, this return to normality has coincided with an increase in Covid cases and the fast approach of ...
Read More »SoftBank Robotics expands into Denmark
SoftBank Robotics EMEA has signed distributor agreements with both Abena DK (service provider and knowledge centre) and Virena ApS (cleaning service provider) for different verticals in Denmark. Under the agreement, the companies will now offer Whiz, Europe’s first industrial cobotic ...
Read More »Climate positive products launched by new social enterprise
With COP26 negotiations having drawn to a close , the launch of a new social enterprise, Amplify Goods, shows how ‘climate positive’ products can help businesses bring the transition to Net Zero to life through their supply chains. Led, owned, ...
Read More »The Cleaning Show celebrates with a triumphant return to London
The UK’s largest and most important event in the cleaning and hygiene sector, The Cleaning Show, welcomed more than 4,600 visitors through its doors when it made its triumphant return to London. It marked the industry’s first physical event since ...
Read More »Jangro smashes fundraising goal for cancer support charity
Jangro, the UK & Ireland’s largest network of independent janitorial and cleaning distributors, has reached its fundraising goal for MacMillan Cancer Support. Working in partnership with this worthy charity since 2013, Jangro pledged to raise £100,000 to help them support people ...
Read More »Chartered Practitioners scheme launched at Cleaning Show
The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners (WCEC) has launched the new Chartered Practitioners’ Register at the Cleaning Show 2021. After senior members of the WCEC led the way for others to follow in September, now the Chartership scheme is launched ...
Read More »Cleaning and hygiene Trailblazer group receives greenlight for accredited industry-wide training programme and apprenticeship
Delighted cleaning and hygiene industry leaders have welcomed a decision to give the greenlight to develop detailed proposals for an accredited industry-wide training programme and apprenticeship for the sector. Earlier this year, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) sponsored a Trailblazer ...
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