Cardo Group, a provider of building maintenance services to social housing providers and public bodies has acquired property maintenance services specialist, Rodgers & Johnston Ltd (R&J), based in Holytown, North Lanarkshire. This is the group’s second acquisition of 2025 in ...

Wigan-based Ainscough Industrial Services (AIS) has acquired Aylesbury business FFM Engineering Services, professionally known as Flegg Projects. The deal, reported to be the largest in AIS’s history, will give the global engineering solutions business a strong foothold in the medical ...

Laurent Lucas-Dufour has been appointed Chair of the Association of Catering Excellence (ACE) and is joined by a host of new board members. Sector Director at Company of Cooks, Lucas-Dufour was appointed Vice-Chair of ACE last year and has been a board member ...

The soft services provider has reinforced its commitment to creating inclusive and equitable employment pathways for disadvantaged groups by signing the 2024 Social Recruitment Covenant. Created by recruitment and training provider PeoplePlus, the Social Recruitment Covenant is a collaborative national programme, ...

Facility management solutions provider, Sovereign Commercial Services, has appointed Rachel Brutosky to the role of Chief Commercial Officer. Brutosky brings nearly two decades of experience in the industry, having spent 18 years at Nilfisk, Inc., where she held various sales ...

New research from commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE, projects 937MW of new supply in European markets in 2025. If this data centre supply is delivered, it will set a new record for Europe, representing an increase of ...

Sodexo UK & Ireland’s Schools business has been recognised as one of the country’s leading providers of healthy, sustainable school meals, in ProVeg UK’s first-ever School Contract Caterer Ranking. Sodexo secured second place, while its subsidiary Alliance in Partnership ranked ...

Global private investment firm, Bain Capital, has acquired Apleona from PAI Partners, a pre-eminent private equity firm. The investment was made by a consortium led by Bain Capital’s Private Equity team in Europe and will support Apleona’s continued growth and ...

Acorn Safety Services has been appointed by a multi-academy education company in the Midlands to protect its school communities from fire risk. The Northampton-based health and safety consultancy will carry out fire risk assessments in all of Our Lady of ...

ISS has won a contract with Aroundtown for the provision of integrated facilities services across the real estate company’s locations in Germany. As part of this deal, ISS Germany will provide cleaning, building technology, security, landscaping, and winter services at ...