Company of theYear success

The end of thewindow cleaner’sladder?

A few of ScottFowler’sfavourite things

New faces atHygiene

In this issue

special edition newsletter for hygiene personnel

Leading the way in food and pharmaceutical cleaning and hygiene

Hygiene Group were awardedCompany of the Year at last year’sSociety of Food Hygiene andTechnology (SOFHT) awards.Winners were announced at theindustry’s prestigious SOFHTLuncheon held at the RoyalGarden Hotel, Kensington.

Key to Hygiene’s success was itsrecognition that market leadershipis not retained by standing still.This has led to the companyinnovating new and uniqueprocesses, including rapid hygienetesting, dry steam and cryogeniccleansing. Hygiene won afterdemonstrating its marked

improvement in standards over the

last year, and for producing

outstanding results consistently.

Hygiene Group operations

manager Sian Thomas said:

“We are thrilled to win this

award and to be recognised as

achievers within the food industry.

Hard work and a dedicated

team have helped us get to

here and we’re proud to have

been rewarded with such

an achievement.”

Company of the Year category

was sponsored by Budgens

Stores Ltd and Rokill Ltd.

“Last year saw us take theCompany of the Year title at theprestigious Society of FoodHygiene and Technology(SOFHT) awards, recognising our continued improvement instandards, and for producingoutstanding results consistently.We hope to build on this successin 2007. Staying with awards, wewere only just pipped to the posthaving reached the finals of theFood Processing magazineawards. Maybe this year…

On the client side, there’s beenplenty of action at Cadbury TreborBassett (CTB). The work we do atBournville will cease to bemanaged by facilities companyADI, and instead return to thedirect management of CTB – asignificant step forward.

There has been enormous interestin our web-based data room, with

Masterfoods, United Biscuits andCTB already adopting the facility.We expect this interest to growwithin the industry.

Hygiene Stores UK has completedits centralisation, in Kings Norton,and continues to expand and winnew business.

And Neil Brown, our in-housebiologist with more than 20 years’food industry experience, hasmoved into a businessdevelopment role. He will continueto give us and our clients supporton a variety of technical issues,including microbiology, chemicalapplication and IT solutions.

Looking at the market sector,there’s been further consolidationby some of our competitors,which will continue to put pressureon our already hard pressedmargins, but should help to assert

our position as the leadingspecialist in our field.

This year presents an opportunityfor us to continue to expand thework we do in the logisticsindustry, develop the Reach andWash operation, and capitalise onthe work we already do forMorrisons and other retail clients.

Everyone has contributed to makea difficult 2006 a successful year,and we are now perfectlypositioned to take advantage ofthis in 2007.”

Sian Thomas with the SOFHT award

Award-winning 2006 is platform of opportunity

Stephen Bailey Managing Director

STOPPRESS

• Hygiene has beaten stiffcompetition to secure theUnited Biscuits tender. Phase 1 will see us cleaningat five sites at which we areincumbent, plus two newones: Harlesden and Glasgow.This will be followed byAintree, plus the potential forextra work at three new siteslater this year.

• Hygiene has been chosen as the preferred partner atCadbury Trebor Bassett’sMarlbrook site, inHerefordshire, which will lead to additional work from March 2007.

Hygiene Group wins Company of the Year

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Leading the way in food and pharmaceutical cleaning and hygiene

AnnouncementsCongratulations to Paul Watson

and Paul Lodge who have each

become proud parents.

Well done to Dave Maxwell who

passed the British Pest Control

Association (BPCA) audit on

our systems.

Congratulations to Anthony Ryan,

on taking the position of contract

manager at the Co-op Retail

Logistics, West Thurrock. He is

responsible for 24hr, 7 days a

week operation on this contract.

Jason Naqvi joins Hygiene as

contract manager at Fairfax

Meadows in Derby.

These are a few of my favourite things: Scott Fowler shares with us a few

of his favourite things!

Book – The Damage Done by

Warren Fellows

Film – Heat, starring my all time

favourite actor Al Pacino

Food & Drink – It’s got to be

Spaghetti Bolognese and cold

pints of lager

Car – Dodge Viper

Sport – Football. I support

Leicester City and play for my local

club Halcyon in Peterborough.

Holiday/Destination – Barcelona.

I’ve been there five or six times and

love it. I even took my wife there

for our honeymoon!

Music – Huge fan of Coldplay,

although I have yet to see them

play live.

Comedian – Billy Connolly always

makes me laugh.

Scott Fowler Account Manager for

the Midlands area has been with

Hygiene Group for 13 years.

The sight of window cleaners up

ladders brandishing bucket and

squeegee could soon be a thing of

the past thanks to The Reach &

Wash System. The Reach & Wash

team believes this ladder-less

method is the answer to the risks

associated with traditional

window cleaning.

Reach & Wash manager Trevor

Horne said: “Reach & Wash

pushes dirt away aggressively

using almost 100% pure water,

leaving glass, window frames,

cladding and signs clean without

the need for chemicals and

detergents.

“And it signals the beginning of

the end for old-school window

cleaners who rely on dangerous

ladders and expensive hydraulic

platforms.”

We wish the team all the success

in the future.

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Anthony Ryan – Contract ManagerDave MaxwellPaul Watson Jason Naqvi – Contract Manager

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