Kimberly-Clark launches Water for Life

3rd of July 2012
Kimberly-Clark launches Water for Life

Kimberly-Clark Professional has launched a new initiative designed to address poor access to water and sanitation in the communities where it operates.

Water for Life is being rolled out to the entire corporation and will act as a platform to enable the company to collaborate with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to deliver clean drinking

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Children with poor hygiene don't do well academically, says Indian study

2nd of July 2012
Children with poor hygiene don't do well academically, says Indian study

Children with poor hygiene practices are more likely to perform badly at school, according to a study by the Indian Medical Academy.

The research was conducted by 500 parents and 540 doctors, with participants divided into two groups - those who scored above 80 per cent marks with over 80 per cent attendance (group A) and those who scored below

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Chidichimo: service companies must enhance economic value to their customers

29th of June 2012
Chidichimo: service companies must enhance economic value to their customers

Pedro Chidichimo, president of Sealed Air's Institutional and Laundry business unit which produces Diversey cleaning and hygiene solutions, writes in his latest blog for ECJ about an interesting industry trend that he calls 'Smart Service Programme' and how it can help FM companies enhance economic value to their customers.

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Recruitment initiative in Sweden

29th of June 2012
Recruitment initiative in Sweden

Reporting from Sweden, our correspondent Petra Sjouwerman examines a new government proposal on recruiting people with disabilities.

The Swedish minister for labour Hillevi Engström from the Liberal-Conservative party has recently announced that she wants to encourage companies to hire people with disabilities.

According to recent research

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Largest market in Europe

28th of June 2012
Largest market in Europe

In the latest of our special country focus reports, ECJ takes a look at the cleaning sector of Germany. With the help of industry experts we focus on the contract cleaning sector, its potential for growth and the structure of the market. We also report on the latest statistics related to cleaning equipment manufacturers.

The commercial cleaning

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Hygiene vital to human health

27th of June 2012

ECJ editor Michelle Marshall visits Dako in Denmark, a company specialising in tissue-based cancer diagnostics, to find out how ISS manages a wide range of  facility services there.

Dako’s mission is to fight cancer and from its base in Glostrup, Denmark it provides reagents, instruments and software that give fast and accurate answers

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