News & Advice

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.

CLEAN is delighted to announce the newly formed partnership with Ryder – the innovative logistics and transportation solutions provider.

To build further on our knowledge of the hotel industry, we got under the sheets with 1,000 UK hotel guests to understand what makes them smile in the bedroom and generates a big thumbs up during their stay.

As CLEAN prepares for the opening of its brand new world-class super laundry this autumn, Matt Tate has been appointed as Chief Technical Officer to support the UK’s second largest hospitality flatwork provider as it continues to grow.

On Friday 30th September employees at our Ross-on-Wye laundry site raised £152 for MacMillan the Cancer Support charity. The team did their best to emulate the baking feats of Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood creating a range of sweet treats for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.

The latest in a series of additions to CLEAN’s senior management team sees David Thorley appointed as sales director.

We are here to help people achieve their ambitions in the right way – and that’s what makes CLEAN a great place to work. We employ all sorts of people in all sorts of jobs, and everything they do matters.

CLEAN’s Christmas top tips for maintaining optimum linen levels

CLEAN has joined the list of inspirational British companies to feature in Amazon Growing Business Awards 2016 shortlist in the Company of the Year – Larger Firm category.

In this video we explain how to get the most from our Streamline linen management system. More than 70% of CLEAN customers use this system to reduce costs, save time and reduce their housekeeping effort while ensuring there are sufficient levels of stock available.

More than five million Britons took a staycation over the August bank holiday weekend this year. Here at CLEAN we provide a vital service supporting customers throughout the country. After all, without clean linen many of our customers wouldn’t be able to make up bedrooms for guests.

Quality, professionalism and service. That is the CLEAN imperative as we embark on the next steps of our world-class manufacturing journey which will see our new super laundry open later this year.

CLEAN would like to extend gratitude and appreciation to Anna Woods for 45 years of service at our Cheltenham laundry site.

CLEAN has been awarded a Gold Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Rob Peters, general manager at our flagship site in Camberley received the award from Ian Bucknell, RoSPA Trustee on 14 July at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham.

CLEAN would like to extend gratitude and appreciation to Martin Hale at our Yeovil laundry site for 40 years of service.

In this video Edwardian Hotels London explain how our Streamline linen managment system has revolutionised hotel linen management.

Laundry and Drycleaning Awards, the LADAs, are back for the second year running and we need your help to win.

With spring here and summer just around the corner there’s a whole host of events coming up that have event organisers, venues and hotels reaching for the linen cupboard…

Are you a hotel operator considering a linen rental service? If yes, then you’ve come to the right place. Here, I want to tell you how hotels can benefit from leasing their linen.

CLEAN is proud to have received a Gold Health and Safety Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) for a fourth year running.

The hotel industry sees multiple peaks and troughs in occupancy levels throughout the year and at CLEAN we know how important it is for our laundry service to consistently meet our customer’s needs. These peak periods can often be demanding on housekeeping teams, so in an effort to try to minimise this pressure we have put together some useful tips to help ensure a sufficient service is provided to everyone.

CLEAN's Chief People Officer, Sarah Cooper is well respected in the industry and knows how to drive people, along with others in the CLEAN Director Team, to achieve results.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) the business standards company; has awarded CLEAN with the ISO 9001.2008 quality management system certificate.

CLEAN is set for a corporate head office move, marking the latest phase in its rapid growth and development plans.