Prior to that Steve had forged a successful career in sales and business development working at Initial Rentokil for eighteen months. He has also worked on well-known brands spending three years at Nestle as National Accounts Manager and five years at Coca-Cola.
Steve's new role in the expanding business development team will focus on gaining new business contacts and growth specifically in the legal, financial and professional sectors throughout London. He says, 'With its great reputation in the cleaning industry, I am looking forward to working with everyone at Principle Cleaning Services. With my previous experience, I look forward to the new challenge of bringing in new contracts and working for one of London's leading cleaning contractors.'
The sustainable contract cleaning company has over 21 years' experience in delivering high quality cleaning & associated services in the Education, Legal & Professional and Commercial sectors.
With the new contract, Principle Cleaning Services will now employ over 160 staff to provide daily premises cleaning other periodic services such as carpet cleaning, hard floor maintenance, IT equipment cleaning and upholstery cleaning. The contract was awarded based on Principle Cleaning Services' commitment to innovations, improved quality and cost efficiencies which were not only met but exceeded the customer's expectations, together with well trained staff.
Jackie Monte-Colombo, Manager, General Services Property & Facilities said, 'Since 2005, Principle Cleaning Services has worked within a partnership approach to solve issues and create a good working environment for our buildings users and staff. When it came to renewing the contract, City University did not hesitate to continue with the hardworking team at Principle Cleaning Services and we look forward to an enhanced long term relationship.'
As a company working towards improving the environment, Principle Cleaning Service's Environmental Management System is a systematic way to discover and control the effects the company has on its activities. Cost savings can be made together with compliance of current legislation, where procedures are implemented and then audited both internally and externally.
Working with clients to develop new ways of providing environmentally friendly solutions and committed to carbon offsetting programmes, Principle Cleaning Services has developed and implemented various innovative projects and would like the opportunity to work with you to enhance your own
As outright winners in the category of Best Cleaned Premises - Educational Establishment, North London based Principle Cleaning, now in its 20th year, beat stiff competition to become one of 77 finalists from across the UK and Ireland who had to undergo a rigorous site visit by one of the three official judges. The Awards, which provide a benchmark for quality and a means of identifying an organisation as a leader in the field, were once again THE social highlight of the cleaning industry.
Chief Executive Douglas Cooke said, 'This is great achievement for the company and particularly special in our 20th year. I would like to thank all the staff who have worked so hard to make this contract successful and I am extremely proud that they have been recognised for delivering high cleaning standards for the University.'
Principle Cleaning has held the contract for a number of years to clean the residential building and the Prestigious Sports Village at the De Havilland Campus, current home to the Saracens rugby training camp and after a rigorous tender process is now responsible for the remainder. The company has applied innovations to the contract such as the purchase of a mega electric van specifically for the contract, biometric time and attendance systems and computerised quality monitoring to enhance staff attendance and performance.
'It quickly became clear who the 16 winners were,' said Paul Pearce, Judge Chair for the Golden Service Awards 2009. 'As judges, innovation, staff management, training and client relationship were among the main criteria which we assessed. Each of the winners of the 15 categories and the overall winner's site received top marks across the board for clearly providing the gold standard in all of these criteria.' Paul added.
During his long career in the cleaning industry, Peter has gained a wealth of experience having previously been Managing Director of Advance Cleaning, Strand and Ramoneur.
Principle Cleaning is committed to tackling long-term sustainability and provides a high quality and professional cleaning service to both large and medium organisations throughout London and the Home Counties. During the past twenty years, Principle Cleaning has grown from strength to strength into a company with a real family culture. Joining a motivated senior management team, Peter will oversee all business areas and drive the company forward to continue its expansion into the financial, banking and educational sector. Current valued clients include The Walt Disney Company, Bank of New York Mellon, Ove Arup and more recently the University of Hertfordshire and Google.
Peter commented, 'I am really pleased to be taking on such an exciting role at such a dedicated and respected organisation and look forward to working with a group of people who really care about their customers, their staff, the environment and community around them while providing a superior and high quality service.'