People Make Places: 125 Years of ISS

Описание: ISS began in 1901 when Marius Hogrefe established a company that offered nightwatchmen to businesses in Frederiksberg, Denmark as a security measure to combat fires, crime, and other issues. Responding to a perceived opportunity in the market, leadership added cleaning services to the company’s offerings in 1934, thus creating an integrated services provider able to fulfill multiple needs for clients.

The ensuring decades saw ISS grow into an international company with subsidiaries across Europe, Asia and the Americas. With this expansion came a recognition that clients in different locations had different needs. New services and systems were developed to accommodate those requirements, and an integrated services platform established that offered many facility management services under a single, trusted umbrella.

Today, ISS serves clients across its four core business lines of technical services, workplace, cleaning services and food services. Driven by a hospitality mindset, the company employs more than 360,000 people in 60+ markets. ISS is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq OMX Copenhagen exchange under the permanent ISIN DK 0060542181 and ticker code “ISS.”