CK Consumables now have the ability to offer our customers a wide range of floor care machinery. Not only are we a full distribution partner of TASKI we can also offer machinery from Nilfisk, Numatic, Karcher and many more. Having this range of manufacturers to source from means we can always make sure our customers get the best machine for their needs.
CK Consumables are currently underway with a 4 week trail of paper products and dispensers in this Kent hospital with a hope of securing the business across the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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We have recently supplied this London hospital with a range of TASKI floor care machines and Osprey steam cleaners. We are currently training in these new machines and working with their staff to help implement a new cleaning procedure which incorporates this new machinery.
Since the start of 2010 CK Consumables have been helping this trust to raise standards and bring down costs by rolling out and implementing new cleaning hygiene systems. We are streamlining and standardising the chemicals used throughout the various 32 sites whilst also helping to identify areas which would benefit from new machinery and innovative cleaning systems such as the VersaPlus flat mop. Along with the chemicals we have also identified paper supply as an area for cost saving and not only have we been able to reduce their costs in this area we have also brought in a new range of flushable hand towels to help prevent an ongoing issue with toilet blockages. This project is ongoing as we continue to roll out more and more sites including the upcoming and challenging Broadmoor site.
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CK Consumables has been appointed an Authorised Distributor of TASKI floor cleaning equipment and has already earned its spurs by securing several major orders. This busy division of the Company has recently set up its showroom at Lower Sydenham as a working environment where customers can see and try the TASKI range on a number of different floor surfaces, and take advantage of seeing all the Osprey Deep Clean Steam systems in one spot. The JONMASTER Micro-fiber trolleys, as well as the Johnson Diversey Cleaning Chemical range, are also available for trial.
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i+DCS provided key supervisors and instructors to visit the renowned 2000 bed Sheffield NHS Teaching Hospital to train teams of in-house domestic and infection control staff in Intensive Deep Cleaning techniques and equipment. A full week of in depth training was completed culminating in the staff deep cleaning one of the hospitals’ wards to demonstrate the skills they learnt. Certificates of Excellence were presented to signify the training modules covered.
If you’re wondering how our rather unique logo arrived at City & Kent – well, read on…From slightly unusual beginnings, south east London based City & Kent Cleaning, which is currently undergoing something of a transformation of its business began when Terry Pether (father of the present Managing Director, Ian), sold his share in a chain of successful greengrocery retailers to his partner Bill Wheble in the 1970’s. He could have had had no idea that he would receive a rather peculiar request from one of his old greengrocery customers which would lead to today’s innovative and successful cleaning organizations. He was asked “Could you come in and do some window cleaning for us?”
This old customer was a London Teaching hospital, which happened to be a bit short staffed at the time. Gamely, Terry rolled up his sleeves and went in and did the cleaning himself, more for old times’ sake than anything else. Strangely – for this truly was in the days of mops and buckets and hard work – he found he enjoyed the experience!
So much so, that his enthusiasm found its way to his former partner Bill who decided to joined him. Together, they named themselves after the City where they worked, and Kent where they’d spent many years sourcing their fruit and veg. They went on a number of specialist cleaning training courses and took on general cleaning work for other customers. Acquiring both cleaning qualifications as well as a good understanding of the business from every level stood the pair in good stead as they took on more and more staff to cope with the steadily growing workload. The reason it grew? Aside from the fact the two directors were prepared to get their hands dirty, their company ethos of professionalism, flexibility, reliability, care and service (learnt from their days in the retail trade!) also had much to say about it.
From the obvious ‘cabbages’ origins of City & Kent, the ‘King’s’ comes into it as Guy’s Teaching Hospital merged with King’s College University of London and this generated opportunities for the company with City & Kent by this time cleaning lecture rooms, class rooms, staff quarters, laboratories, kitchens, catering and washroom facilities as well as communal areas.
Ian Pether joined the business in 1988 from a banking background although that cut no ice with his “Dad” who started his son off at the bottom – of a ladder no less, cleaning windows – a bit of cruel de ja vu!
Ian succeeded his father as M.D. in 1994 and has made the most of his humble but, thorough, beginnings and know-how in the business, working hard to justify Terry’s pride in the Company that had grown out of “an old greengrocers to hob-knob with King’s” who Ian is happy to report are still valued customers today. …….and now you know the story of our logo!