News & Advice (2017)

We are proud to be supporting the 25th Annual Hotel General Managers’ Conference as a Gold sponsor.

The relationship between the Union Jack Club and CLEAN began in March 2012 following the Union Jack Club’s rigorous assessment of several linen providers. As a charity and therefore a not-for-profit organisation, the concept of value is the foundation of the Union Jack Club’s operations and CLEAN’s premium yet affordable service and stock management ticks all the boxes.

The CLEAN plaudits continue at Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards.

CLEAN has been named ‘Most Innovative Company’ at this year’s LADA’s, the prestigious awards from leading publication Laundry and Cleaning Today.

Leading hospitality laundry CLEAN has scooped a prestigious industry accolades at the LCN Awards, held on 19 October.

Our laundry staff reveal the strange items hotel guests lose in bed linen A side of salmon, an oil radiator and a police laptop are some of the more unusual items that our staff have found among dirty hotel bedsheets at our laundries in the last year.

CLEAN has been shortlisted for three LADA Awards, which recognise and celebrate the best companies, skills and role models in the laundry and dry-cleaning market. We have been shortlisted in both the ‘Most Innovative Company’ and ‘Most Environmental and Sustainable Company’ categories, thanks to our success in reducing our environmental impact across all of our laundry sites following the launch of our £15m state-of-the-art super-laundry in Slough earlier this year.

Record-breaking CLEAN is creating 25 new jobs after it’s Nottingham-based laundry achieved its highest ever production levels last month.

CLEAN has secured a coveted Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice from one of the world’s most respected recognition schemes for environmental endeavour.

CLEAN has been shortlisted for two awards in this year’s LCN Awards organised by Laundry and Cleaning News. These awards aim to recognise and celebrate the best of the best in the laundry and dry-cleaning market.

With the commercial cleaning sector continuing to evolve in line with innovative market trends and growing business capabilities, commercial laundries today must continue to adapt their operations to add value to their service offering and remain competitive.

As highlighted in our 6 things to consider when looking for a linen and laundry provider blog, the process of selecting a linen supplier should never be rushed.

As part of CLEAN’s growth plans and to focus on our core commercial textile rental service, we have made the decision to sell the site of our Maidenhead Laundry and Dry Cleaning Shop on Furze Platt Road.

We are delighted to reveal that we have invested more than £2.5million into our Yeovil site as part of the latest developments in our dedicated investment programme – creating 90 additional jobs as part of our ongoing growth plans.

We are pleased to announce that our Banbury laundry has broken a company production and delivery record – a great achievement for the dedicated team delivering laundry and linen services in Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas.

CLEAN has been named as a Gold Medal award winner at last night’s RoSPA Health and Safety Awards 2017.

Congratulations to Dale Hoggett from Travelodge, Burford.

Here at CLEAN we are encouraging all businesses to get behind World Environment Day on Monday 5 June 2017 and put the focus on protecting nature and the planet.

Choosing a linen supplier isn’t a process that should be rushed. The company you choose will be responsible for supplying your hotel or venue with a fundamental part of your everyday business – if you don’t have clean linen, you cannot sell your rooms.

CLEAN has been awarded the coveted ‘Sustainable Supplier’ title, sponsored by innocent drinks, at this year’s Footprint Awards (Thursday 25 May 2017) having beaten tough competition in the category from Nestle Professional UK and Carroll’s Heritage Potatoes, both of which are dedicated to sustainability and best practice in the hospitality and food service sector.

We are pleased to announce a new long-term partnership with the UK's largest hospitality company Whitbread PLC. The new collaboration will see CLEAN provide quality linen to more than 15,000 bedrooms across 150 Premier Inn branded hotels.

CLEAN is delighted to have been shortlisted in the ‘Sustainable Supplier’ category of this year’s Footprint Awards having been named alongside 38 other companies, all of which are dedicated to sustainability and best practice in the hospitality and food service sector.

We’re pleased to have received accreditation and recognition from the UK's fastest growing health & safety assessment scheme Alcumus SafeContractor for achieving excellent health and safety standards in the workplace.

Here at CLEAN we deliver almost one million pieces of linen to customers located across the UK on a daily basis, with transportation logistics just one of the founding principles that ensures we can provide an excellent service built on quality, efficiency and innovation. In recent years, due to the combined impact of an ageing professional HGV driver workforce and the lack of new entrants coming through to replace those leaving the sector, there has been a 25% decrease in new driver license acquisitions which has led to a shortage of almost 60,000 HGV drivers.

As we head into spring summer event season, we’re conducting a survey to help us better understand the event linen requirements of hotels and venues and the customer’s buying journey involved. Your responses will be analysed and necessary changes will be made so we can ensure the service we deliver exceeds expectations.

Whether it’s for a restaurant or special event, tableware gives F&B managers and event planners a multitude of options to set the scene and ensure guests feel the way you want them to feel when taking their seat.

The latest edition of estate agent Savills’ report ‘The UK Extended Stay Market’ confirms that 2017 will be a record year for new serviced apartment developments in the UK, with a predicted 13.8 percent increase on the nation’s current offering.

Our new £15m super laundry in Berkshire has been labelled ‘one of the most modern industrial laundries in the UK, if not the World’ by Europe’s largest supplier of high quality laundry machinery Kannegiesser.

This time lapse video shows the construction of CLEANs brand new £15m super laundry in Berkshire. The laundry has been built to provide incremental capacity for the growing hospitality market in London and the South East of England.