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GBAC STAR Facility Reaccreditation Assists With Keeping NBA Finals Fans Healthy

By |2024-06-12T15:00:56-05:00June 12, 2024|

American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, recently completed the reaccreditation process for GBAC® STAR Facility Accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC), a Division of ISSA.  The 19,200-seat sports arena, home of the NHL’s Dallas Stars and the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, joined more than 100 facilities across the globe in renewing its GBAC STAR Facility Accreditation ...

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Sodexo Acquires Capitol Vending and Coffee

By |2024-06-10T19:36:34-05:00June 10, 2024|

Sodexo’s convenience business, InReach, has acquired Capitol Vending and Coffee for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the Austin, Texas-based Capitol Vending expands InReach’s service offerings in the Central Texas region. This marks the fifth acquisition by Sodexo’s InReach division in recent months. Earlier this year, the company purchased Five Star Food Services. “The acquisition of Capitol Vending ...

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Cintas Earns Seventh Consecutive Fortune 500 Ranking

By |2024-06-10T19:35:32-05:00June 10, 2024|

Cintas Corp. has been ranked in the 2024 Fortune 500, marking the seventh consecutive year the company has been included in the publication’s annual list. To compile its annual list, Fortune magazine examines U.S.-based companies who file financial statements with a government agency and ranks them based on their last available fiscal year revenues. Cintas posted US$8.82 ...

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ISSA LARU—OSHA Updates Hazard Communication Standard

By |2024-06-07T14:00:45-05:00June 7, 2024|

Welcome to the latest ISSA Legislative & Regulatory Update, a biweekly roundup of the public-policy issues currently impacting the full cleaning supply chain. This update touches on DOL releasing a final rule updating its Hazard Communication Standard, EPA issuing its 2023 PRIA annual report, two upcoming ISSA webinars on recent labor laws and regulations, and ...

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ABM Reports 2% Rise in 2nd-Quarter Revenue

By |2024-06-06T19:56:15-05:00June 6, 2024|

ABM has reported a fiscal second-quarter revenue of US$2 billion, a 2% year-over-year increase in sales. The company reported a quarterly net income of $43.8 million, or $0.69 per share, down 16% compared to $51.9 million, or $0.78 per share, last year. ABM attributed the decline to the absence of a $12.6 million pre-tax gain related to ...

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California Assembly Passes Janitorial Workloading Bill

By |2024-06-04T21:59:39-05:00June 4, 2024|

On May 22, the California State Assembly amended and passed a bill (AB 2364) that would have imposed a 2,000 square feet per hour production-rate limit for workers, as well as increased the costs of mandatory, in person harassment-training programs for all cleaning service employers.  While the amended bill removed the production-rate limit, it would ...

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JLL Adds Managing Director

By |2024-06-04T20:18:32-05:00June 4, 2024|

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has appointed Kristen Vosmaer managing director of the company’s data center work dynamics division. Vosmaer has worked within the data center industry for more than two decades and joins JLL from GLP where he served as vice president of global operations. A Dutch native, he’s created and managed international teams and worked ...

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Seven ISSA Members Among Top Employers for New Graduates

By |2024-06-03T21:01:29-05:00June 3, 2024|

Seven ISSA members have been named to Forbes magazine’s list of 2024 America’s Best Employers for New Grads. In compiling the annual list, Forbes partnered with Statista to survey more than 100,000 Americans with less than 10 years’ professional experience working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. Participants were queried on such topics as ...

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IICRC Commercial Built Environment Cleaning Standard Available for Public Review

By |2024-05-31T20:03:46-05:00May 31, 2024|

The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification (IICRC) has opened public review for the IICRC S400 Standard for Professional Cleaning, Maintenance, and Restoration of the Commercial Built Environment. The IICRC S400 standard focuses on the commercial built environment and defines frequencies, objectives, results, principles, and practices to clean, maintain, and restore the built environment. The built ...

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Seven ISSA Members Among Barron’s Most Sustainable

By |2024-05-31T20:00:44-05:00May 31, 2024|

Seven ISSA-member companies have been included in Barron’s 2024 100 Most Sustainable Companies list. To generate the seventh-annual index, the financial publication analyzed the 1,000 largest U.S. publicly traded companies by market value and scored them on more than 230 performance indicators in five categories. The Clorox Co., parent company of CloroxPro™, achieved the top ranking for the second consecutive year, with Kimberly-Clark ...

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