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Emprise Services wins five-year contract with Arsenal Football Club
12th of July 2017
Emprise Services has been awarded a five-year contract to provide cleaning services for Arsenal Football Club at its Emirates Stadium in London.
The contract, worth over €1.14 million per year and won through a competitive tender process sees Emprise provide cleaning and hygiene services, consumables and window cleaning at the home of the
Faecal bacteria discovered in ice at three major coffee house chains
11th of July 2017
Ice from three of the UK's largest coffee chains has been found to contain faecal bacteria.
Samples of iced drinks from Costa Coffee, Starbucks and Caffe Nero contained varying levels of bacteria according to an investigation carried out by the BBC's Watchdog programme.
Seven out of 10 samples of iced water from Costa and three out of 10 samples
Malish opens manufacturing facility in Europe
10th of July 2017
Brush manufacturer Malish Corporation has opened its first European manufacturing facility, in ?roda ?l?ska, Poland. The company is now producing brushes in North America, Europe and Asia.
The new plant will be focused on brush products and service for the OEM market that is particularly strong in Europe explained vice president of sales and
SCA's hygiene business becomes Essity
7th of July 2017
The SCA Group, best known in the away-from-home sector for the Tork brand, has been split into two independent listed companies. These are the forest products company SCA, and the global health and hygiene company Essity.
Hygiene and health feature highly in Essity's vision and strategy going forward, it says. While SCA's hygiene business had
Norway’s cleaning sector - challenges and opportunities
6th of July 2017
Thor Nielsen is marketing and purchase manager for Insider Facility Services, which operates in 12 cities in Norway. The company specialises in a broad spectrum of services in shopping malls, office buildings, airports and aircraft, and has its own development programme for staff. Nielsen writes about the trends and characteristics of the
Hot water is no better than cold for killing germs by hand washing, says study
5th of July 2017
Hot water is no more effective than cold at getting rid of bacteria, a new study on hand washing suggests. Scientists discovered washing in cool water removes just as many germs as hot water.
Not only that, antibacterial soap was no better than normal soap the researchers found.
Food scientist Professor Donald Schaffner said: "People need to
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