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Leverstock Green Tennis Club is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. Today, the membership ranges from age 8-80 years of age - and the hygiene and health of its members is of paramount importance.
Historically, fabric towels were used and laundered by committee members daily. As the facilities were upgraded, and usage increased, an alternative solution was clearly required. The club looked at hand washing and drying options.
“Hot Air dryers were not an attractive option - hygiene statistics showed us quite clearly that bacteria are not removed efficiently from hands using hot air dryers,” said Graham Fish, head coach. “With children sharing racquets and balls, germs can easily spread in a club environment. In addition, the toilets are next to the changing facilities. The last thing members need is to walk into an environment where warm, bacteria laden air is being blown around the changing room. We are promoting exercise, healthy living and making the most of an outdoor environment - to a family membership - so it was important for us to move to a product that supported this ethos.”
The club looked at a number of paper towel solutions but came across Katrin when one of the family members saw a Katrin health poster promoting ‘effective washing and drying your hands’ as the best way to avoid flus, coughs and colds. The club contacted Metsa Tissue and took some hand towel samples to see what members thought. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and so the decision was taken to source Katrin hand towels and dispensers.
As part of the 50th birthday celebrations, the club is being updated. Katrin hand towels are used in the members changing rooms and wiping solutions are also used in the kitchen and behind the club bar. Further significant investment has been made in all areas of the club and it is a vibrant part of the Leverstock Green Community.
“Today, the members take the hand towel solution for granted - it’s a quality solution that people expect when they pay a membership fee to belong to a club, and Katrin has really lived up to this expectation for us,” concluded Fish.
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Sodexo scoops corporate responsibility award
Sodexo has won the top corporate responsibility award in the inaugural year of the Footprint Awards. Additionally, Tamsin Gane, Sodexo UK & Ireland's sustainable procurement manager, was runner-up in the Special Achievement Award category. Sodexo UK & Ireland received the award for Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility at a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.
Judges were particularly impressed by Sodexo's ‘Better Tomorrow Plan’ - its sustainability strategy to 2020 - which was praised for being ‘a far reaching programme whose objective is to support the sustainability aims of employees, clients, customers and suppliers’.
Thomas Jelley, corporate citizenship manager, Sodexo, who received the award on behalf of the company, said: "We are delighted to receive the Footprint Award for Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility in the first year of the Footprint Awards. It is a further endorsement of Sodexo's Better Tomorrow Plan and the efforts of colleagues across the UK and Ireland who have helped to bring it to life."
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Public sector contract awarded
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman have awarded Incentive QAS a three-year contract (including options for two further years) to supply cleaning and recycling services at their offices in London’s Millbank Tower, Coventry and Manchester. The contract has been awarded following an evaluation by both organisations. It is partly designed to help meet CSR objectives with an added emphasis on recycling.
The cleaning service incorporates daily office cleaning, periodic deep cleaning, window cleaning, washroom services and segregated recycling management for London and Manchester.
With minimal waste storage in each of the premises, the recycling service required an innovative approach that would provide a cost effective solution whilst meeting the aims of both organisations to increase recycling. Incentive QAS worked closely with two separate recycling experts in London and Manchester in order to obtain the optimum agreement for each location. All waste management statistics will be centrally collated and produced on a monthly basis by Incentive QAS.
Other decisive factors in the contract award included Incentive QAS' environmentally friendly range of cleaning chemicals, its well-defined approach to delivering day, evening and periodic cleaning, bespoke KPIs for the contract, and clear off site management input.
Sealed Air to acquire Diversey
Sealed Air Corporation and Diversey Holdings, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement under which Sealed Air will acquire Diversey in a transaction valued at $4.3 billion. The transaction is expected to be completed in 2011 and is expected to be accretive to earnings in the first full year following completion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Diversey shareholders will receive $2.1 billion in cash and an aggregate of 31.7 million shares of Sealed Air common stock valued at $25.68 per share based on Sealed Air’s closing stock price on 31 May 2011 for a total equity consideration of $2.9 billion. Diversey is a privately-owned company, controlled by members of the Johnson family and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC. Upon closing of the transaction, Diversey shareholders are expected to own approximately 15% of Sealed Air common stock.
In 2010, Diversey generated net sales of $3.1 billion and Adjusted EBITDA1 of $453 million. Diversey employs more than 10,000 people worldwide and operates in more than 60 countries. Sealed Air is a leading provider of food and industrial system solutions that help ensure that food retains its freshness, products arrive undamaged, and transit efficiencies are maximised to reduce energy and waste. Sealed Air is focused on pioneering a differentiated, proprietary range of offerings in material science, automation technology and service-based solutions in order to provide comprehensive solutions to its customers. Sealed Air operates in 52 countries, employs more than 16,000 people and generated net sales of $4.5 billion in 2010.
“This transaction represents a strategic growth opportunity that leverages Sealed Air’s core competencies and positions our company to further capitalize on the megatrends that drive both businesses,” said William V. Hickey, president and chief executive officer of Sealed Air. “With Diversey, we will expand our footprint beyond specialty packaging solutions by gaining entry into a $40+ billion chemical cleaning and hygiene industry that has attractive fundamentals and is already in our value chain. This combination is also financially compelling, and we expect it to deliver enhanced earnings per share and free cash flow generation, creating meaningful value for our shareholders. Sealed Air and Diversey have shared values, overlapping customers and end markets, and a common vision. By harnessing the strengths and sales capabilities of both companies, we will be able to bolster our solutions and services competencies and position Sealed Air for continued market leadership. We look forward to welcoming Diversey’s talented employees to the Sealed Air team.”
Edward F. Lonergan, Diversey president and chief executive officer, said: “We are excited about the opportunities we have to grow with Sealed Air through increased scale and expanded reach. We share a culture of innovation and a global vision for our business. Like Sealed Air, Diversey is committed to sustainable solutions, both in terms of our business and in terms of helping our customers protect human health while reducing waste generation and consumption of natural resources. I am confident that this is a winning combination for our employees and customers around the world.”
Diversey chairman, Helen Johnson-Leipold, said: “Diversey shareholders determined that the best long-term opportunity for all stakeholders was a combination with Sealed Air. This was a difficult decision, but the compelling rationale was that together, we can leverage our expertise to transform our industry more rapidly and in more ways than either company could do alone. As the companies got to know each other, the leaders discovered an alignment of values and shared passion for industry-transforming innovation and sustainable solutions. The businesses, the teams, and our ambitions mesh well. And I’m pleased that Sealed Air has committed to continuing a strong presence in Racine, Wisconsin, the historic base of operations for Johnson family businesses.”
ABCD annual conference and AGM
The Association of Building Cleaning Direct Service Providers (ABCD) held its annual conference at the Queen Hotel in Chester, on Thursday 12 May 2011. Over 50 managers and supervisors directly involved in facilities management in the public sector were present to hear Pascoe Sawyers, director of the personal development company My Life Is My Business, convey his philosophies on motivation and career advancement during the event. Each session was designed to offer delegates guidance and advice which will help improve motivation amongst staff, colleagues and themselves, as the public sector grapples with a tough economic climate and increasingly demanding workloads.
After a welcome address by ABCD chairman Ken Baxter, Sawyers opened the day with a session on the basics of motivation, by highlighting the factors that underpin behaviour within the working environment. He then asked delegates to look at the power of motivation and how they can use it to get the most out of their staff or the teams they manage, followed by a self-analysis session, as delegates were asked to review their own motivational triggers and how they might ‘feed’ them.
The day then assumed a political angle, when members were asked to look at the motivators of elected members (councillors) in their decision making process, how they factored in their stakeholders during their working and motivator processes. This was tied into advice and strategies aimed to help delegates cope with and lead major change processes, as well as better understanding and predicting people’s behaviour, which then places managers in a superior position to influence events.
Later in the day, Sawyers asked delegates to look at ways in which they could apply the principle of MeFOCUS, one of the theories Sawyer’s authored in his book, mePLC. By aligning personalities with either fearlessness, optimism, creativity, uniqueness or storytelling, delegates were able to pinpoint the five key traits of individuals who are effective ‘leaders of self’. If correctly categorised, individuals are able to maximise their strengths and improve their personal and professional effectiveness, both with themselves and amongst their colleagues and friends.
Each participant left the day with a copy of their own personalised ‘motivational map’ report and a copy of MePLC: Your Life Is Your Business, Sawyers’ book on developing personal leadership strategies.
Jangro opts for Peter Grant Papers
Distributor consortium Jangro has selected Peter Grant Papers as one of its four preferred suppliers of paper products. The agreement, which is for two years with an option to roll into a third, is for the provision of a wide range of Peter Grant Papers’ away from home paper products, including centrefeeds, toilet rolls, white hand towels, facial tissues, coreless toilet rolls and bulk pack 1 ply.
Jangro named Peter Grant Papers one of its preferred suppliers because of the breadth of the company’s product range, its customer service and competitive pricing.
“With regard to the product ranges Peter Grant Papers will be supplying, the company set itself apart through the combination of its offer,” said Neil Stephenson, purchasing manager at Jangro’s head office. “In addition, the company’s own paper mill in Lancaster underpins its ability to deliver and it even has a number of environmentally friendly initiatives that are very important to our customers.”
Peter Grant Papers is environmentally responsible, viewing the issues involved holistically. As a consequence the company works with its suppliers to help them achieve the relevant accreditations and has itself the stamp of approval of the FSC, Corrugated Recycles, the Environment Agency and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
“Service is extremely important to us,” said Peter Grant Papers sales and marketing director, Paul Weddle. “Our customers need to be able to depend on us to deliver what they need on time, every time. With our own paper mill and paper processing plant in Telford we are able to insulate our customers from the vagaries and fluctuations prevalent in the global paper market. We also put the time and energy into understanding the needs and preferences of our customers’ customers; every Jangro member can rely on us to help them achieve their goals.”
