MITIE, the strategic outsourcing and asset management business, has recently represented the UK helping to win the EuroSkills 2008 cleaning challenge in Rotterdam. The winning UK team competed against six other European countries, coming home with four gold medals. The team of four was made up of two people from MITIE and two from other UK businesses.
MITIE was the joint UK winning team of the UK Team Clean Challenge in 2007, a government-backed skills competition for the UK’s cleaners, which then led to them competing in the EuroSkills challenge.
More than 400 skilled youths from 3o European countries take part in the European skills competitions. This is the first year in which cleaning has been a category in this competition for under 27s. There were 49 trades ranging from hairdresser to web designer and from bricklayer to electrician, from nurse to gardener and from trucker to florist.
The team had to show best practice in three hour tasks in cleaning offices, hospitals and stripping and resealing vinyl floors. The UK team won in each of the cleaning categories. The four gold medals included overall team winner and overall manager. Kirsty Steele and Craig Robinson, both from MITIE, won overall supervisor and overall cleaner respectively.
Martyn Freeman, Managing Director of MITIE’s cleaning and environmental business, said: “To be the UK joint winning team was a great achievement but to go on and win four gold medals in the European competition is fantastic. We’re very proud of Kirsty and Craig for representing MITIE in such a positive way and hope we can do the same again next year.”
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David Revis, Investor Relations and PR Manager, MITIE Group PLC
T: 020 7034 7306 M : 07979 702465 E: david.revis@mitie.co.uk
Sarah Phillips, Marketing Communications Executive, MITIE Cleaning & Environmental Services
T: 0117 906 1080 E: sarah.phillips@mitie.co.uk
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