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Imperial Dade Acquires New York Distributor

By |2024-06-03T21:02:26-05:00June 3, 2024|

Imperial Dade has acquired Rochester, New York-based Regional Distributors Inc. for an undisclosed sum in a private financial transaction. Established in 1994 by David and Tracy Scalen, Regional Distributors cleaning, catering, and hospitality products throughout upstate New York. The purchase further expands Imperial Dade’s presence in the region and marks the 88th acquisition by Imperial Dade under its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using Cleaning Products

By |2024-06-17T20:02:44-05:00June 3, 2024|

Professional cleaners must understand how the cleaning products and their ingredients work and the science behind them.

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 ...

Kimberly-Clark Ceases Operations in Nigeria

By |2024-05-31T20:01:31-05:00May 31, 2024|

Kimberly-Clark Corp., parent company of Kimberly-Clark Professional, has announced plans to discontinue operations in Nigeria. According to a press release, Kimberly-Clark is exiting its business in Nigeria after almost 15 years, due to refocused company strategic priorities globally as well as economic developments in the country. The company will close its manufacturing facility and commercial office in ...

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 ...

From Idea to Impact

By |2024-06-17T20:02:16-05:00May 31, 2024|

ISSA member profile spotlighting Rozalado Services and Route and their journey to success in the cleaning industry.

CMM’s FREE Webinar Will Help You Transform Your Sales Team With AI

By |2024-05-30T18:48:50-05:00May 30, 2024|

CMM is offering a complimentary webinar— Leveraging AI for Smarter Selling: Transforming Your Distribution Sales Team for Success—taking place June 18 at 1:00 p.m. CT. As usage of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow, sales teams who embrace this technology today have a clear competitive advantage that will grow exponentially in the coming years. In ...

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 ...