Nancy Galván started Unica Enterprises in 2007 with a business plan, a pile of debt and no clients. Nearly two decades later, the Dallas-based facilities services company employs more than 185 people and serves DFW Airport, local municipalities and federal agencies across North Texas. At the 2026 ISSA VEO Conference in Dallas, where Galván was ...
Welcome to the latest ISSA Legislative & Regulatory Update, a biweekly round up of the public policies currently impacting the cleaning and facility solutions industry. This update touches on the introduction of legislation to authorize EPA’s Safer Choice Program in both the U.S. House and Senate, the launch of the Global Framework for Action: Advancing ...
Unica Enterprises had been in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) Business Development Program for about a year when it landed its first big federal job. The contract, at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, was worth roughly $750,000 a year. At the time, the Dallas janitorial company was bringing in about ...
A flooded parking lot can stop a business cold. A heat wave that drags into its second week can do the same, as can a hurricane that knocks out a key supplier 500 miles away. Severe weather rarely shows up at a convenient time, and the damage often reaches past the building it hits. Steve ...
ISS, a global leader in workplace experience and facility services, has signed a new eight-year contract with Tryg, the leading non-life insurer in Scandinavia. The contract covers Denmark, Norway and Sweden and has an annual value of approximately DKK 100 million. Under the new partnership, ISS will deliver a broad range of integrated facility services ...
When Karina Villaseñor walked onto the stage at the 2026 ISSA VEO Conference in Dallas, she did so from a different spot than the year before. At the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2025, the vice president of human resources for 4M Building Solutions received the VEO Visionario Award. This year she returned as co-host ...
Debbie Sardone never set out to build a business. Early in her marriage, she and her husband were poor enough to qualify for government assistance, though pride kept them from accepting it. He worked three jobs and eventually went back to the police department for a steady paycheck. She started cleaning houses out of the ...
Wade Kemnitz has joined Sellars Absorbent Materials as President and COO. Kemnitz’s new role at Sellars is part of a planned succession as Julie Graverson, the company’s current COO, is retiring at the end of October. “We’re very appreciative of Julie’s dedication, determination and many contributions to our success during her 10 years at Sellars. ...
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, Aunt Flow Chief of Staff Jenna Saponaro and Columbus Urban League President and CEO Stephanie Hightower will gather at Huntington Park today to celebrate Columbus becoming the first U.S. city to provide free period products across all of its major professional sports venues and spotlight the next phase of the city’s ...
Frontline turnover in commercial cleaning runs at an estimated 200% a year, and each departure costs roughly $3,500 to replace. Labor is already the largest expense for a building service contractor. Channing Johnson, president of KB Building Services in Nebraska, considers turnover the industry's biggest problem and one it rarely puts enough effort into solving. ...
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