ECJ EUROPEAN Cleaning Journal

Pan-European service provider Samsic has been certified ‘Gold' by Ecovadis, the collaborative platform enabling companies to monitor the corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance of their suppliers across 150 sectors and 99 countries.Samsic is based in Rennes, France and is France's second largest cleaning company.

EcoVadis assessed official documents and 21 CSR indicators covering 150 categories of purchases, before placing Samsic in the top 25,000 companies examined by the platform. The assessment is compatible with new international standards such as GRI G3, Global Compact and the ISO 26000 standard.

Established in 1986, the Samsic Group has acquired over 80 established businesses and launched over 320 new companies to service 20,000 clients in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal and the UK.

Organic growth will lead to the opening of subsidiaries in Germany and the Netherlands in addition to other European countries for Samsic, which employs 70,000 people on a turnover (2012/13) of 1.5 billion euros.