Monthly Archives: August 2022

Brunswick Corp Launches Navico Group

By |2024-03-11T15:45:31-05:00August 17, 2022|

Brunswick Corp., parent company of RELiON Battery, has announced the formation of Navico Group. The new business unit will replace Brunswick’s current Advanced Systems Group (ASG) and will be led by Brett Dibkey. Navico Group includes RELiON as well as other Brunswick brands like Ancor, Attwood, B&G, BEP, Blue Sea Systems, C-MAP, CZone, Garelick, Lenco, Lowrance, ...

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Diversified Maintenance Acquires Millers Cleaning Services

By |2024-03-11T15:45:30-05:00August 17, 2022|

Diversified Maintenance has purchased Millers Cleaning Services. Diversified’s acquisition of the Catawissa, Pennsylvania-based commercial cleaning and janitorial firm increases the company’s client portfolio and geographical footprint in central Pennsylvania. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. “We are happy to welcome Millers to the Diversified Maintenance family. With our new team members, we are well ...

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Four Success Factors to Human-Robot Collaboration

By |2024-01-05T22:22:42-06:00August 17, 2022|

The “Great Resignation” phenomena and the underlying demographics will not change anytime soon, making it even more difficult to maintain a reliable and trained distribution facility operations workforce. Steady demand growth, labor shortages, supply chain congestion, and rising costs are testing distribution facility capabilities. Distribution-focused operations are now furiously seeking to automate more and more ...

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Sodexo Locks Down Deal With British Prison

By |2024-03-11T15:45:30-05:00August 16, 2022|

Sodexo has been awarded a US$319 million contract with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice. The 10-year deal calls for Sodexo to oversee operations at HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire, England. The company will be responsible for the operations and maintenance of the 900-inmate correctional facility. Sodexo is currently contracted by the Ministry of Justice ...

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ISSA Announces Alliance with CPAN to Support Nigerian Cleaning Industry

By |2024-03-11T15:45:30-05:00August 16, 2022|

ISSA EMEA, a Division of ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, today announced an alliance with the Cleaning Practitioners Association of Nigeria (CPAN), the industry voice for cleaning and hygiene industries in Nigeria. Beginning on August 1, CPAN members will become ISSA members for the following year. “This alliance enhances our ability to provide professional ...

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Highlands Appoints Strategic Accounts Director

By |2024-03-11T15:45:29-05:00August 15, 2022|

Highlands has promoted Charles Koslowsky to director of strategic accounts, jansan. A veteran of the cleaning industry, Koslowsky has held a variety of sales and distribution leadership roles throughout his career. He joined Highlands in 2015 as a business development director and has spent the past three years as the company’s director of enterprise sales. “Charles ...

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Reckitt Reveals Germiest Workplace Hotspots

By |2024-03-11T15:45:28-05:00August 15, 2022|

Reckitt Professional's Lysol Pro Solutions recently revealed the top 10 office surfaces with the highest risk of germs. Conducted by a team of scientists, the report identified the following top 10 “germiest” workplace hotspots (in no particular order): Elevator buttons Coffee machine handles/buttons Refrigerator doors Kitchen sink taps/handles Vending machines Restroom door handles Computer keyboards ...

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3M Continues Consistent Dividend Payout

By |2024-03-11T15:45:28-05:00August 15, 2022|

3M has declared a quarterly dividend of US$1.49 per share on the company’s common stock. The dividend is payable September 12 to shareholders of record at the close of business August 22. 3M has paid a quarterly dividend to shareholders without interruption for more than 100 years. As of June 30, the company had more than 569 million common ...

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Defining Sustainability

By |2024-01-05T22:22:40-06:00August 15, 2022|

Sustainability definitions are typically equal parts inspiration and aspiration. Examples include the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy, which stated, “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations,” or the United Nations’ Brundtland Commission, which defined sustainability in its report Our Common Future as “meeting the ...

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Tennant Adds to Board of Directors

By |2024-03-11T15:45:26-05:00August 12, 2022|

Tennant Co. has appointed Andrew P. Hider to the company’s board of directors. Hider currently serves as CEO of ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. He has more than two decades of leadership experience in manufacturing environments. “We are excited to welcome Andrew to the Tennant Company Board of Directors and leverage his extensive experience as ...

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