KSS Enterprises: Keeps Selling Strong
KSS Enterprises has provided janitorial supplies to the U.S. Great Lakes region for more than 65 years. In fact the company began in 1945, when Fred Martinis opened a small ...
Coping with Workplace Illness
Imagine that you come to work one day and your co-worker in the cubicle across from you is sick. I mean really sick. She’s pale and glassy-eyed, shivering under layer ...
Three Keys to Green Carpet Care
While the practice of green cleaning in schools and offices has become fairly common, green carpet care is a lesser-known exercise. This is unfortunate because in many facilities, carpet is ...
Carpet Care 101: Pricing and Production Rates
This article is the second in a two-part series that aims to cover everything you need to know about carpet cleaning. In the first part of the series, we discussed the ...
Workloading: Finding the Right Balance
Cleaning represents 20 percent to 35 percent of the total maintenance and operations budget for nearly any type of organization. In other words, cleaning—whether performed in house or by a ...
Class “A” & Intending to Stay That Way
When Mall of America® (MOA), the largest shopping complex in the United States, broke ground on a 10-story office building attached to its retail space, competition for corporate tenants and ...
Keep Commercial Carpeting Looking Its Best
Office buildings, schools, hospitals, retail outlets, and other commercial properties experience a large amount of foot traffic. With the traffic comes tracked-in dirt that soils the carpet and creates an ...
Peers Weigh In on Carpet Care
I recently posted a question in our LinkedIn group, ISSA—the Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association. With more than 28,000 members, it is the largest cleaning-industry-specific group on the business site. My ...
Chemcraft Industries: A Story of Survival in Chicago
When you’re on hold on the phone with Chemcraft Industries’ Chicago, IL, office, a friendly recorded voice greets you with some historical facts. “The year was 1947; the Dead Sea ...
Seven Steps to Drive Sustainability
The professional cleaning industry has done a great job with green cleaning. Today over 30 percent of all cleaning products in the professional space are considered green, whereas green products ...
