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Prime Minister vetoes meeting with Hospitality Minister petitioners
UKAccording to a report on the Boutique Hotelier website on Thursday 14 January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has turned down a request to meet with petitioners who raised more...
TSA: ‘So much for green shoots of recovery’ – and new website launches
UKTextile Services Association (TSA) CEO David Stevens has just issued a New Year update to the membership saying: “So much for the green shoots of recovery…However, the vaccine roll...
Christeyns staff support local food bank
UKStaff at local hygiene chemicals manufacturer Christeyns UK helped support the Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank with donations over the festive period.
Parliament’s cross party support for hospitality industry and supply chain
UKUKHospitality (UKH) has welcomed Monday’s debate on the hospitality industry in Parliament which, the trade body says, highlights the overwhelming support for the sector and the...
Maxi-Press piles on the pressure
GERMANY/INTERNATIONALMaxi-Press is now producing membranes with its new, fully automatic elastomer press from Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH. The press, which was specially developed...
Loyal Clean Show exhibitors can reap rate lock reward for 2022
USA/INTERNATIONALPrevious exhibitors of The Clean Show have an opportunity to save by locking in current booth rates for the next edition until this Friday, 15 January. The next...
Rinnai pledges limitless heated water for all hygiene regimes
UKRinnai continuous flow water heating units, with precision temperature control for thermal disinfection to low temperature cycles, can now deliver almost 1,000 litres per hour per unit.
UKFT steps back reluctantly from representing drycleaners
UK UKFT has regretfully announced that it will no longer be able to represent the UK’s drycleaners following the loss of its largest member.
CINET looks forward to a positive 2021
INTERNATIONALCINET announced that this year it remains “strongly committed to our goal to supporting its members and the global PTC industry as a whole with providing facts and...
French laundries demand more support from government
FRANCECINET reports that, according to the French textile care association L’Entretien Textile, laundry businesses with more than 50 employees are not receiving the same support...
Zoom with the Guild on 20 January
UK/INTERNATIONALKenneth Cupitt, pictured, and the Guild of Cleaners and Launderers are inviting textile care professionals to a scheduled Zoom video conference, on ‘Views on the...
Sunak’s latest snub for hospitality supply chain enrages TSA
UKThe Textile Services Association (TSA) is incandescent with fury as laundries get ready for closures in the third lockdown of the pandemic. “It has been 12 months of hell for...
JSG chair Bill Shannon to retire in May
UKJohnsons Service Group (JSG) has announced the retirement of chairman William (Bil) Shannon in May, the appointment of non-executive director/chairman John (Jock) Fyfe Lennox,...
Christeyns passes on industry insights to students
UKLocal hygiene chemicals manufacturer Christeyns UK has been giving some first-hand advice and support to local students working on their City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma.
Compass Group sells US Crothall Laundry to global investment group H.I.G Capital
USA TRSA, the North American association for linen rental businesses, has reported that H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital...
Tradelinens founder calls on Government to appoint dedicated Hospitality Minister
UKRobert Lancaster-Gaye, founder of Tradelinens, luxury and ethically sourced linen supplier and consultants to the hospitality industry, calls on the Government to recognise the...
Injection of hope for 2021 but it is still going to be a long, hard slog
UKHappy New Year to all. Well, there is more prospect of that as we head in to 2021 with two vaccines already being pumped into UK arms and others coming on stream around the...
HAVE YOURSELVES A MERRY little CHRISTMAS
UK/INTERNATIONALWell, it is that time of year again, writes LCNi editor Kathy Bowry, and none of us 12 months ago could have forecast what a very different festive season it would be...
UKH predicts tiny green shoots of recovery pushing up in Spring
UKAccording to UK Hospitality's (UKH) chief executive Kate Nicholls, in a webinar organised by the Textile Services Association (TSA) last week, before Tier 4 was announced, hospitality...
