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After a day at the show...
28th of April 2014After a long day at ISSA/INTERCLEAN you will probably want to head for the city centre and sample some of the city’s many excellent restaurants and bars.
Whether you are looking for good food, a great atmosphere or a typically Dutch experience, Ann Laffeaty suggests 10 places to spend your Amsterdam evenings with colleagues or
Broadcasting fees unfair?
28th of April 2014Thomas Schulte-Marxloh in Germany explains how broadcasting fees are impacting on the industry.
Since the reform of the public service broadcasting fees in 2013, a number of lawsuits have been filed against the new regulation. The fee has to be paid by every household or company, whether a receiver (TV set, radio, computer or smart phone) is
VSR - a platform for cleaning
28th of April 2014Nico Lemmens of ISS Facility Services in the Netherlands reports on independent body VSR.
Vereniging Schoonmaak Research VSR (Association for Cleaning Research) is an independent Dutch platform for all parties directly or indirectly involved in contract cleaning: cleaning companies, clients, ‘in-house’ cleaning service firms,
The quirky side of Amsterdam
28th of April 2014As cleaning professionals from all over the world converge on Amsterdam for ISSA/INTERCLEAN, ECJ's Ann Laffeaty lists 10 points highlighting the quirkier side of cleaning and hygiene in the city.
The world's cleaning and hygiene professionals will be travelling to Amsterdam once again this spring for the biennial ISSA/INTERCLEAN. During the day
Why go to ISSA/INTERCLEAN?
28th of April 2014Exhibiting at ISSA/INTERCLEAN Amsterdam represents a major investment for companies - both in terms of time and money. So why do they keep coming back? ECJ finds out.
New business? Customer interaction? Industry intelligence? ISSA/INTERCLEAN offers all these and more - as well as a welcome opportunity to escape from the office. But this could be
New ways of working
25th of April 2014ECJ’s UK reporter examines how events around the country affect the cleaning sector.
You may think that cleaning is exempt from all the political, financial and personal pressures that surround us. This is far from being the case for our business and personal lives are affected as much as anyone else and in a very literal sense we are