Harvard Maintenance Announces Karcher and Sealed Air as Sponsors of the 20th Congress of World Federation of Building Service Contractors in New York City
NEW YORK, March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvard Maintenance (www.harvardmaint.com) announces Karcher (www.karcher-usa.com) and Sealed Air (www.sealedair.com) as sponsors of the 20th Congress of World Federation of Building Service Contractors (WFBSC) (www.wfbsc2014.com), a bi-annual conference for the building service industry.
The conference will be held in the United States for the first time in twenty years at The New York Marriott Marquis in New York City April 6-9, 2014.
"We are pleased to announce that industry leaders such as Karcher and Sealed Air will be participating in the bi-annual WFBSC Conference taking place in New York City next month," Stan Doobin, President and CEO of Harvard Maintenance and 2014 WFBSC host said.
The 2014 WFBSC event will feature the best revenue boosting strategies, hiring and retention strategies, as well as valuable insights to grow your profits from industry leading suppliers like Sealed Air and Karcher and featured speakers, including Jim Collins, Steve Forbes, Peter Diamandis and Richard Besser.
"The WFBSC Congress is a major forum of the cleaning industry," says Markus Asch, Deputy CEO of the Alfred Karcher GmbH & Co. KG. "The relevant players nationally and globally meet to discuss the way they do business. For Karcher it is very important to participate: We learn from our customers how they see the challenges of our industry and we can share with them our sight of the trends and how they will reshape our business."
The WFBSC is a union of national and international associations, individual contracting companies, manufacturers and suppliers from around the globe who come together bi-annually in an international forum.
"The World Federation of Building Service Contractors is a valuable partner for Sealed Air in our vision to create a better way for life," says Jerome Peribere, President and CEO. "They share our mission to re-imagine the service and quality of hygiene that we deliver to our customers' facilities all over the world. In New York 2014 we will surely generate innovative ideas to achieve our common goals."
For more information and details on attending, visit www.wfbsc2014.com.
About Harvard Maintenance Harvard Maintenance is one of the largest and fastest growing privately owned providers of high quality managed services in the US. Our success over the last fifty years stems from Harvard's Inverted Pyramid®, which puts our employees first in order to drive superior client satisfaction. Our Service Excellence™ philosophy sets an expectation for our clients, and our employees. Our employee and client focus continues to fuel our success.
About the World Federation of Building Service Contractors (WFBSC) Established in 1978, the World Federation of Building Service Contractors is the global trade association for private sector employers in the contract cleaning sector. WFBSC members are among the leading providers of out-sourced cleaning services to a wide variety of public and private sector clients. For more information, visit www.wfbsc.org.
About Sealed Air Sealed Air Corporation creates a world that feels, tastes and works better. In 2013, the company generated revenue of approximately $7.7 billion by helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals in the face of today's biggest social and environmental challenges. Our portfolio of widely recognized brands, including Cryovac® brand food packaging solutions, Bubble Wrap® brand cushioning and Diversey cleaning and hygiene solutions, ensures a safer and less wasteful food supply chain, protects valuable goods shipped around the world, and improves health through clean environments. Sealed Air has approximately 25,000 employees who serve customers in 175 countries. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
About Karcher The family-owned Karcher group is the world's leading provider of cleaning systems and services for household, trade and industry. The company's products enable its customers to solve their cleaning tasks in an economical and environmentally-friendly manner. Karcher manufactures and sells pressure washers, vacuums and steam cleaners, dry-ice blasting machines, sweepers and floor scrubbers, car washes, cleaning agents, drinking water and waste water treatment systems and water dispensers. Innovation is the company's principal growth factor. Around 87% of its products have been in existence for five years or less. Karcher employs 10,700 people, including more than 900 engineers and technicians, located in 100 subsidiaries in 60 countries all over the world. In 2013, Karcher had 2.05 billion € and sold 12.48 million products; the group's highest sales and quantity in history. Karcher's innovative, reliable, and powerful cleaning solutions are available in the U.S. through its subsidiary companies and members of Karcher North America. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, Karcher North America employs more than 1,000 people located in seven facilities within the United States, Canada and Mexico. The company is producing and distributing products under the brands Karcher, Windsor, TecServ, Landa, Prochem, Hotsy, Watermaze, Graco, Spraymart, Cuda, Century 400 and Shark.
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