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McGill acquires gas and central heating specialist

Scottish building services and construction contractor, McGill, has acquired Fife-based gas and central heating specialist, Kingdom Gas Services. This acquisition follows the purchase of facilities management company The McDougall Group last month, boosting the scope of expertise and scale of delivery across ...

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Willmott Dixon to plant 100,000 trees over the next decade

As part of its ambition to deliver environmental net gain, through its sustainability strategy ‘Now or Never. Our decisive decade’, Willmott Dixon has pledged to plant 10,000 trees a year over the next decade. The approach will see both Willmott ...

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Mitie increases profit forecast

In its latest trading update, Mitie Group has reported a “continued strong trading performance for the year”, and a new Revolving Credit Facility (RCF). In the group’s first quarter trading update (on 27 July 2021) Mitie reported that it had ...

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Career Ladder talks to director of Seeclear Facilities

Q: What first attracted you to working in FM, did you have much awareness of the profession? I started at the age of 16 as an aircraft cleaner working at Heathrow Airport in the mid 80s. Back in those days ...

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Westgrove bags new shopping centre deals

Shopping centre specialist facilities management company, The Westgrove Group, continues its growth in the sector following new contract awards in Kent and the West Midlands. The company, which provides soft and hard services to centres across the UK, has secured ...

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Pattenmakers opens nominations for 2022 Young Facilities Manager Award

Livery company the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers has opened nominations for its annual Young Facilities Manager Award. A unique career development opportunity, the award is open to managers aged 21-32 working in the workplace and FM sector, with no cost ...

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Portico launches online concierge platform

Specialist provider of tailored guest services, Portico, has launched an online concierge service, Portico Lifestyle. The Portico Lifestyle platform provides access to a curated range of products and experiences and is free to use for all customers and clients of ...

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Inclusion Week: BM signs three key EDI commitments

Today sees the start of Inclusion Week (27 September-02 October). To mark the event independent catering business, Bartlett Mitchell, has announced the signing of three key EDI commitments. These include signing up to the Business in the Community’s ‘Race at ...

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Sodexo brings sports, events and hospitality expertise under a unified global brand

The Sodexo Group has created a unique global brand Sodexo Live! to unify and leverage all of the Group’s expertise in the world of sports, events and hospitality. With this brand creation, Sodexo says it is reaffirming its “confidence in ...

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Two-thirds of businesses have not yet digitised their visitor management

While visitor management is more complicated than ever for businesses in the UK, a new a survey by Crown Records Management, a national digital transformation expert, has shown that two-thirds have not yet digitised the process. Businesses and employees have ...

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