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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OCS Lands Contract Extension at British Airport

By |2024-06-03T21:00:10-05:00June 3, 2024|

OCS Group Ltd. has been awarded a two-year contract extension with Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, England. The extended deal calls for OCS to provide essential cleaning services to the airport’s terminal and support facilities, along with high-level window cleaning and exterior snow and ice removal services. The contract, which builds upon an existing five-year deal, also ...

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 ...

Take the ISSA Period Friendly Restroom Survey

By |2024-05-30T18:47:34-05:00May 30, 2024|

As of April 2024, 27 states and Washington, D.C., have passed legislation to help provide students who menstruate with free access to period products by requiring and/or funding schools to do so. Additionally, some countries— including Canada and Scotland— have also created legislative requirements for other away-from-home facilities to do the same. A survey conducted ...

ISSA Announces Inaugural State Advocacy Leaders

By |2024-05-30T17:48:06-05:00May 30, 2024|

ISSA is proud to announce its first State Advocacy Leaders (SALs). The association launched this “grass-tops” program in January 2024 to grow and strengthen its government-affairs efforts. “We’re excited to engage even more ISSA members from across the cleaning industry and across the United States in advocacy by activating this new initiative,” said ISSA Senior ...

May/June Edition of ISSA Today Now Available

By |2024-05-29T19:48:36-05:00May 29, 2024|

The May/June edition of ISSA Today—now available in digital format for your desktop, smartphone, or tablet―helps you stay up to date on the latest cleaning industry and ISSA-member news. The latest edition of ISSA Today spotlights the entrepreneurs behind the success stories of Rozalado Services and Route, what they did to succeed, and their vision ...

2024 Golden Service Award Winners Revealed

By |2024-05-29T19:45:08-05:00May 29, 2024|

Winners of the 2024 Kimberly-Clark Professional Golden Service Awards were announced last week at a ceremony hosted at the London Hilton on Park Lane in London, England. Founded in 1991, the biannual awards program honors the top contract and in-house cleaning service providers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The contest called for participants to submit a ...

May/June Issue of INCLEAN Now Available Digitally

By |2024-05-28T19:58:39-05:00May 28, 2024|

The May/June issue of INCLEAN, the leading trade publication for the Australian commercial cleaning and hygiene industry, is now available online. This issue of INCLEAN explores incoming mandatory climate disclosure laws set for early 2025. Find out what small businesses need to know about the changes, and how your business can leverage sustainability as a ...