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Leading role with Ambassador Theatre Group
Emprise Services plc has retained and expanded its contract with the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG). Emprise has maintained a successful relationship with ATG for 11 years, providing cleaning services to 24 of the theatre company’s venues. Following a competitive tender process, Emprise has now been selected as the sole service provider for the entire ATG estate, recently enlarged to 39 venues nationwide.
Emprise was selected through competitive tender as the supplier of cleaning and associated services across ATG's estate, a decision supported by the strength of the current service delivery and the long and productive relationship ATG has held with the support services company. ATG is confident that Emprise will deliver consistently high cleaning standards across each of its venues.
Emprise has been working with many of the UK’s leading theatres for over a decade and has extensive knowledge and experience in this sector. Lesley Shearman, executive director of operations at Emprise, said: “We are delighted to have not only retained but significantly expanded the contract with ATG, one of our most important clients and oldest contracts. We look forward to further developing this relationship and the services across what is now a national agreement to continue to support ATG in achieving its goals.”
Like most theatre groups, ATG needs to make sure that performances run to perfection - from the presentation of the venue, down to attentive and efficient staff on the big night. Ensuring that the operation runs like clockwork is vital to ATG to create the best possible experience for its audience, every time. Emprise’s fresh approach, removing the
drain on management resources, has proven to be exactly what ATG was looking for throughout the course of this 11 year relationship.
“Emprise has been consistently proactive,” said David Blyth, property director at ATG. “Regular meetings between the venue managers and supervisors and monthly monitoring means that we’ve been very happy with the level of service Emprise has delivered. Communication has been the key to the success of this relationship.”
Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd is the largest owner/operator of theatres in the UK with 39 venues, an internationally recognised theatre producer, and a leader in theatre ticketing services through ATG Tickets.
www.emprise.co.uk
bpi.recycled enjoys double award success
bpi.recycled products is celebrating its double success after winning two Green Apple Awards for environmental best practice. The business, which ranks as Europe’s largest recycler of polythene waste recycling over 70,000 tonnes of material each year, received its first gold award in the ‘recycled product’ category thanks to its Green Sack range of 100% recycled refuse sacks. An innovative waste management and landfill reduction project at the manufacturer’s Stroud site also secured a second gold award under the ‘environmental improvement’ category.
Made from 100% recycled polythene, bpi.recycled products’ Green Sack range received recognition, not only for its superior environmental credentials, but also for helping to raise awareness of the need to recycle more UK waste plastic at UK facilities. Green Sacks are produced entirely from UK waste recycled at bpi.recycled products’
own UK network of Environment Agency approved recycling sites.
The judges were equally impressed with the innovative waste reduction initiative implemented at bpi.recycled products’ Stroud site - which set out to cut the amount of waste sent to landfill by 5% each year.
To help achieve this goal, the business has invested in staff training and robust waste stream management practices. It has also developed strong links with other recycling companies in the local area to help dispose of scrap wood, metal and cardboard. Plus, plastic waste from the site is also recycled for use in the manufacture of the Green Sack.
In addition, the business has successfully achieved its goal to make all waste management self funding. It plans to use the money saved by waste reduction to install new energy efficient systems with a view to reducing overall energy consumption for the Stroud site.
Rachael Barton, marketing manager at bpi.recycled products, said: “At bpi.recycled products we’re committed to working in an environmentally friendly way and to manufacturing products with impressive green credentials. Our recent success at the Green Apple Awards is a testament to this commitment and to the hard work and dedication of the bpi.recycled products team.”
Service adds up for BDO
Emprise Services plc has won a contract to provide integrated cleaning services to the world’s fifth largest accountancy organisation, BDO.
The three year deal with Emprise is for BDO’s13 UK offices located across the country. Emprise will take responsibility for the management and delivery of an integrated cleaning package including daily office cleaning, periodic cleans, window cleaning, washroom services, consumables, confidential waste, laundry and pest control.
BDO’s regional facilities manager, Alan Hutchinson, said: “This arrangement allows us to provide a consistently high standard of cleaning across each of our offices whilst delivering excellent value and meeting BDO’s commitment to providing exceptional client service.
Emprise’s effective national management structure has enabled us to implement the change with minimal disruption and maximum impact.”
This new win with BDO builds on Emprise’s existing financial client portfolio which includes many international financial institutions.
Tony Hampson, executive director of operations at Emprise, said: “We are delighted to have formed a service partnership with such a prominent accountancy firm. We believe that drawing from our extensive experience of delivering office cleaning solutions to prestigious city clients we can bring real efficiency and value gains for BDO.”
www.emprise.co.uk
Gem shares success secrets with pupils
Dave Campbell, managing director of Sheffield-based Gems Hygiene, is returning to the classroom for the fifth year running to inspire children at a local secondary school. The scheme, set up as part of King Edward VII School’s black pupils achievement programme, has been run by co-ordinator Helen Barker with the aim of inspiring young people and providing positive role models from the local community.
Campbell visited the school to speak to a group of pupils about his background, education and his business achievements, including having established Gems Hygiene as one of the UK’s leading suppliers of cleaning and maintenance products.
Helen Barker said: “We are really grateful that Dave is able to take time out to speak to pupils about his achievements. The session provides an opportunity for the children to ask questions and interact with Dave, giving them a realistic insight into how ambitions and hard work can materialise.”
Dave Campbell added: “Having developed a long-standing relationship with King Edwards and other local schools, I am delighted to be seen as a positive role model and really enjoy giving something back to the local community. In the current economic climate opportunities are ever more scarce and children need all the support they can get. It is always a pleasure to go into schools to be able to offer guidance and experience sometimes slightly different to that of their teachers and show a business perspective.”
www.gemshygiene.co.uk
Safe healthcare…on the roof
Crossgrip walkway matting, manufactured by Plastic Extruders Ltd, has recently been specified and installed by Burren & Whitaker Construction Ltd over some flat rooftops of Epsom Hospital in Surrey.
Crossgrip is designed as a very safe and easily loose laid solution for rooftops, gantries and high level walkways. It provides a slip resistant surface and protects the roof membrane. Due to its flexible construction, the matting will contour over uneven surfaces and imperfections and provide a permanent and safe walkway for service staff and wheeled equipment.
Because the matting is raised 14mm by its underbar construction, it will maintain an efficient and drier path over puddles and ponding. It is maintenance free and will resist the harshest of conditions, including winds of up to 150km/h. An important benefit is its PVC composition which will resist bacterial growth and is impervious to temperature extremes including frost, ice and snow, making it ideal for use on the most exposed areas and in the most extreme environments.
Crossgrip is supplied in 10m rolls and standard widths of 60, 91 and 122cm. It is available in black and light grey as well as other colours and can be supplied with a high visibility yellow edging for increased visual safety.
www.crossgrip.com
Carbon footprint challenge pays off
Two Sodexo employees who work at Aldershot Garrison have been praised for their commitment to reducing the site’s carbon footprint after being challenged to find environmentally friendly solutions for the services they provide. Over the period of one year, Mark Hobbs, Sodexo cleaning manager, and Dave Gisby, Sodexo transport manager, have successfully reduced the site’s carbon footprint by 167 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
The pair were set objectives as part of Sodexo’s Better Tomorrow Plan - its worldwide sustainability strategy to 2020. One of the Better Tomorrow Plan’s key commitments is to protect the environment, and more specifically to reduce its carbon footprint at all sites where it operates, by 2020.
As cleaning manager, Hobbs has significantly reduced the number and volume of chemicals used to clean the site. He has done this by identifying best practices for his team, which established where reductions in chemicals could be made. With a sustainable procurement mindset, Hobbs worked with Sodexo’s suppliers to lower the number of chemicals used by ordering mostly super-concentrates. In turn, Hobbs also reduced packaging and significantly lowered the number of deliveries needed each month.
Gisby focused his efforts on fuel emissions to reduce his team’s carbon footprint. The actions he took to reduce the number of vehicles used included the introduction of a car sharing scheme, efficient mini bus and coach routes to pick up staff on site, and regular vehicle maintenance inspections. As part of a Sodexo-wide initiative, Gisby has trialled an electric car for the transportation of goods, laundry and snacks across the garrison which will also reduce the number of fuelled vehicles in the fleet.
Peter Scargill, Sodexo contract director, said: “I am delighted that we have been able reduce our carbon footprint so effectively at the garrison and in line with both our own and the Minstry of Defence’s targets. Mark and Dave have done an excellent job driving these improvements forwards and we are using their achievements as a benchmark in other areas.”
www.sodexo.com
