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Contractors responsible for low-paid cleaning staff and ‘allegedly low levels of cleanliness’, says Westfield
- May 18, 2012
- By alan
- Contracting, Email Newsletter
Pointing out ‘we at Westfield really don’t know to clean a shopping centre’, Westfield non-executive chairman Frank Lowy told shareholders at the group’s AGM last Wednesday 17 May that questions from the floor pertaining to poor cleaners’ wages and low cleanliness levels really belong to the contractors providing the services. An item by Scott Rochford in the Sydney Morning Herald’s [...]

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WFBSC 2012 presentation content strongly focused on BSC issues
- May 17, 2012
- By alan
- Contracting, Email Newsletter
One the most important international building service contractor events, the 19th World Federation of Building Service Contractor (WFBSC) International Congress will deliver a programme strongly focused on international and local BSC issues. The Congress will be held in Brazil’s ‘sustainable’ city of Curitiba from 10 to 14 October 2012 and it is expected to attract some 1,000 leading BSC delegates [...]

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Record ISSA/Interclean exhibitor numbers include large percentage of ‘first time’ participants
- May 14, 2012
- By alan
- Email Newsletter, Supply Side
Reflecting the cleaning and hygiene industry’s buoyancy, the ISSA/Interclean 2012 Amsterdam opened its doors on Tuesday 8 May with a record 690 exhibitors (from 42 countries) that covered some 50,000 sq metres of floor space. Of those 690 companies, about 26 percent (180) were first time ISSA/Interclean exhibitors. A spike of 84 percent growth in exhibitors from Asia was a major [...]

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Vermop’s ‘Mag’ system wins Amsterdam innovation award
- May 9, 2012
- By alan
- Email Newsletter, Supply Side
The Mag System from Vermop Salmon was announced as winner of the prestigious Amsterdam Innovation Award prize. At midday on the event’s first day (Tuesday 8 May) an official presentation was made to the winner and recognition given to short-listed products. The jury felt that the Mag system ‘brings an entirely new way of attaching mop covers to the mop [...]

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Spotless agrees to PEP takeover bid
- April 30, 2012
- By alan
- Contracting
An article in The Age on 30 April announced that ’industrial services company Spotless has agreed to a full takeover by private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for a total cash consideration of $2.71 per share.’ ‘The takeover bid is worth $720 million takeover offer and was less than the $2.80 minimum share price offer that the company wanted. <iframe id=”dcAd-1-3″ [...]

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More equipment will be battery powered in the future, confirms survey
- April 24, 2012
- By alan
- Technology
An April 2012 survey asked US cleaning professionals their thoughts about battery-operated cleaning equipment, such as those found in auto-scrubbers. The survey was conducted by Tornado Industries, which manufactures several battery-powered floor machines. Ninety-six people completed some or all of the six questions.* Asked the type of battery now found in their cleaning equipment, 52 percent indicated it was a [...]

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Activeion unable to achieve commercial viability
- April 24, 2012
- By alan
- Supply Side
According to a 20 April 2012 post by US supplier Cleaning Solutions LLC, that company has been unable to achieve ‘commercial viability’ for its Activeion ionator. ‘Since 2008, Cleaning Solutions LLC has been proud to heighten awareness of the benefits of chemical-free cleaning. Regrettably, while many customers continue to be satisfied with Activeion solutions, the business has been unable to [...]

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Shopping centre hygiene severely lacking, says United Voice’s audit report
- April 18, 2012
- By alan
- Contracting
While it received predictably dismissive responses from property owner/manager stakeholders, a hygiene audit conducted in New South Wales and Victorian shopping centres has revealed worryingly poor cleaning practices. The audit’s results have prompted United Voice to call on all industry stakeholders to work towards cleaning hygiene standards as well as take responsibility for hygiene outcomes on all sites. This major [...]

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Pro-active Spotless to audit employee pay packets
- April 16, 2012
- By alan
- Contracting
Spotless has agreed to audit employment records in every State and Territory in a move aimed at ensuring its 30,000 employees are being paid properly. It has followed a lead set by McDonald’s, Domino’s and Red Rooster. Spotless, in collaboration with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), has agreed that two of its entities – Spotless Services Limited and Berkeley Challenge [...]

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Nilfisk challenges ec-H2O advertising claims with NAD
- April 16, 2012
- By alan
- Supply Side, Technology
Late March the US’s National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus recommended that Tennant Company discontinue certain claims promoting the superior performance of the company’s ‘ec-H20’ technology. The claims at issue were challenged before NAD, the US advertising industry’s self-regulatory forum, by Nilfisk-Advance, stated an official NAD press release. Claims at issue included: ec-H20 ‘electrically converts [...]

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Contractors responsible for low-paid cleaning staff and ‘allegedly low levels of cleanliness’, says Westfield

WFBSC 2012 presentation content strongly focused on BSC issues

Record ISSA/Interclean exhibitor numbers include large percentage of ‘first time’ participants

Vermop’s ‘Mag’ system wins Amsterdam innovation award

Spotless agrees to PEP takeover bid

More equipment will be battery powered in the future, confirms survey

Activeion unable to achieve commercial viability

Shopping centre hygiene severely lacking, says United Voice’s audit report

Pro-active Spotless to audit employee pay packets

Nilfisk challenges ec-H2O advertising claims with NAD

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