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KEY NOTE CONTRACT CLEANING JUNE 1997

ISBN 1-85765-701-2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Market Definition

INTRODUCTION

MARKET SECTORS

MARKET POSITION

MARKET TRENDS

Table 1: Comparison of Definition of Contract Cleaning Activities as Defined by SIC (80), VAT Code 8654 and SIC (92)

Table 2: Key Sectors of the UK Economy - Gross Domestic Product at Current Factor Cost (£bn), 1996

Table 3: Annual Turnover of Subsectors of the UK Business Services Sector (£m, excluding VAT), 1996e

Table 4: Relative Size of the Industrial Cleaning Sector in Selected European Union Countries (index UK=100), 1996e

Table 5: Key Sectors of the UK Economy - Gross Domestic Product at Current Factor Cost (£bn), 1991-1996

Table 6: Annual Turnover of Subsectors of the UK Business Services Sector (£m, excluding VAT), 1991-1996

Market Size

THE TOTAL MARKET

MARKET SECTORS

Table 7: Contract Cleaning - Gross Domestic Product at Current Factor Cost (£m), 1991-1996

Industry Background

RECENT HISTORY

INDUSTRY CONCENTRATION

EMPLOYMENT

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

Table 8: Subsectors of the UK Business Activities Sector, Classified According to SIC 92 (number of businesses and percent), 1996

Table 9: Number of Industrial Cleaning Businesses by Size of Turnover (number and percent), 1996

Table 10: Number of Industrial Cleaning Businesses Compared With All Business Activities by Size of Turnover (number and percent), 1996

Table 11: Personnel Employed in Cleaning Services in Great Britain (000 and percent), 1991-1996

Competitor Analysis

THE MARKETPLACE

MARKET LEADERS

ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION

Table 12: Estimated Market Shares in the UK Contract Cleaning Market (£m and percent), 1996

Table 13: Main Media Advertising Expenditure on Office Cleaning Services (£000), 1993-1996

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

Buying Behaviour

CONSUMER PENETRATION

Table 14: Demand for UK Sanitary Services by Purchasing Sector (£m and percent), 1996

Outside Suppliers to the Industry

SOURCES OF SUPPLY

CLEANING EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

CLEANING MATERIALS SUPPLIERS

Table 15: Sources of Supply of Goods and Services to the Contract Cleaning Sector (£m, excluding VAT, and percent), 1996

Current Issues

RECENT LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS

IMPACT OF THE NEW UK GOVERNMENT

OTHER EMPLOYMENT ISSUES

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

OUTSOURCING

MANAGEMENT AND THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY

QUALITY ISSUES

CORPORATE ACTIVITY

Forecasts

BACKGROUND ASSUMPTIONS

2001 FORECAST

Table 16: Forecast Turnover of UK Business Services and Related Sectors (£bn and percent), 1996 and 2001

Company Profiles

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITIONS

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Sources

ASSOCIATIONS

PERIODICALS

DIRECTORIES

GENERAL SOURCES

HBI UK INFORMATION SOURCES

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

OTHER SOURCES

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report deals with the UK contract cleaning sector, serving a market worth an estimated £2.23bn in 1996. The total potential market for such services, which include in-house cleaning services, is estimated at £5.3bn. The sector has shown average annual growth over the past 5 years of 10.5 percent; in current price terms, around twice the rate of growth in the economy as a whole.

Contract cleaning, as defined in this report, encompasses a variety of cleaning activities, such as chimney sweeping, office, shop and factory cleaning, ship fumigating and scrubbing, boiler cleaning and scaling, telephone cleaning and sterilising, and window cleaning services.

Among the influences that have had an impact on the sector over the past 5 years has been the trend towards `outsourcing', where firms concentrate their management effort on their core businesses and contract non-core elements to specialists, such as contract cleaners. At the same time, policies of the then Conservative Government in the UK were pushing the public sector in a similar direction, through the application of legislation which required `market testing' and `compulsory competitive tendering' procedures to be followed.

Other legislative provisions have also had their effect on the industry. The most notable of these has been the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Directive of the European Union (EU). A series of apparently conflicting court rulings as to the circumstances in which these regulations apply, has led to a great deal of uncertainty in the industry. Other legislation, both in force and in prospect, has dealt with issues such as maximum hours of work, illegal immigrants, the minimum wage, and the implementation of the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty.

Forecasts of UK economic growth published by a range of forecasting bodies, both public and private, suggest an annual average rate of growth in UK domestic demand of 2.7 percent over the next 5-year period to 2001. This translates into a rate of increase in current price terms of 5.5 percent per annum. In line with the experience of most economies at a similar stage of development, the UK's business service sector seems set to increase its share of economic activity, and the contract cleaning industry seems likely to participate fully in this growth. This produces a prediction for the total contract cleaning market of £3.2bn by the year 2001.

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