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Recruitment initiative in Sweden
29th of June 2012
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
Towards a better future
29th of June 2012
Italian correspondent Anna Garbagna reports from the Forum Pulire in Milan.
The Forum Pulire – First National Congress of Integrated Services, which took place in Milan recently, was an opportunity to take stock of the situation in the cleaning sector and it was declared a great success.
Over 280 delegates attended the debates
Fuel costs escalate
29th of June 2012
German correspondent Thomas Schulte-Marxloh reports on how rising fuel costs are affecting cleaning businesses.
The German public is currently talking about the constantly increasing price of fuel and the ways of cutting respective costs. These costs do not only affect the man in the street but also the economy in general. All businesses in which
Public sector reform
29th of June 2012
Public sector contracts have probably never been more hotly contested as swingeing cutbacks take their toll on government and local authority services across the EU. Now the European Commission has announced wide-ranging reforms aimed at making the tendering process easier for all. Hartley Milner reports.
No one can have any doubts about the
New Sonnenschein batteries from GNB
28th of June 2012
Two new batteries for use on cleaning machines have been added to the Sonnenschein line from GNB Industrial Power.
The GF 12 076V offers improved high current tolerance and increased capacity, says the company, vital for cleaning machines that are used intensively for long periods of time. For smaller machines there is the new Sonnenschein
Digital Management Systems Pro Clean software
28th of June 2012
The Pro Clean System is a new online calculation and planning tool for the cleaning industry, which is available for use on PC, smartphone or tablet.
Developed by Digital Management Systems, it uses standardised rooms and times for planning work schedules and for calculating quotations. Standard times have been allocated to many tasks and
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