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Christmas message from our Group Executive team

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As the holiday season approaches, Decland Doyle, Group CEO took a moment to express his deepest gratitude for our teams and customers.

“As another year comes to a close, I’d like to take this opportunity to express my utmost appreciation for our incredible people and customers. Although it has been an extraordinary and challenging twelve months, we have met every obstacle head-on and come out stronger than ever. – thanks in no small part to all your support! From the bottom of my heart, thank you!

Thank you for everything you do for our business and on behalf of the entire Bidvest Noonan family, I want to wish you a peaceful Christmas and all the very best for the new year”.

Bidvest Noonan scoops Best Diversity, Inclusion and Equity award at Fingal Business Awards 2022

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Bidvest Noonan has been awarded the Best Diversity, Inclusion and Equity at the Fingal Business Awards 2022, held at the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport in Santry on Friday, the 18th of November 2022.

We are very proud to be recognised for our work in this area once again. People from all across our business have played a role in this success and especially those who are part of our EDI Council. We are proud of our achievements but we are also motivated to keep improving.

60 Seconds with Colin O Neill

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Meet Colin O’Neill. As a GMP Quality Specialist, Colin helps us support customers in the Life Sciences sector. Our customers in the sector produce important medicines and biotechnologies, many of which transform the lives of people living with serious conditions. Our customers trust us to maintain their facilities in an always audit-ready condition, ensuring their business can operate smoothly and produce products of the highest quality.

How would you define what you do at Bidvest Noonan?
As a GMP quality specialist, I support our GMP cleaning activities so that they are performed to the highest standard and maintain 100% compliance with all regulations. This involves travelling to many different sites and responding to their unique needs to help them perform at their best.

What has been your best day at Bidvest Noonan?
I’ve only been part of the business for a couple of months so I can say that every day has been my best day. Meeting great people for the first time is always a great experience and my first week was very exciting.

What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
If you push someone, they will push back, if you lead them, they will follow.

How do you motivate yourself?
Motivation is contagious, I try to associate myself with those that inspire me and strive not to be like them, but the best version of myself.

Who or what has inspired you the most?
My parents inspire me the most. I have three siblings and we didn’t have everything growing up but they made sure we had a fulfilling childhood and always put education first.

If you had a motto, what would it be?
Simply “keep moving forward”. No matter what through any adversity this motto helps me push through and do exactly what it says.

Bidvest Noonan Scoops Inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Award

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Bidvest Noonan team receiving Diversity award on stage

Bidvest Noonan, a market-leading provider of facilities services that employs over 27,000 people across the UK and Ireland, has been named the inaugural winner of the Diversity & Inclusion in Security award at the 2022 ISIA Awards. The award was introduced this year by the Irish Security Industry Association to recognise companies in the private security industry that excel in creating an inclusive culture that encourages diversity in the workplace.

The win comes at a time when the value and importance of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace is in sharp focus across many sectors. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion programmes seek to ensure that people are treated equally, valued and made to feel welcome regardless of their gender, ethnicity, faith, age, sexual orientation, or other differences.

In recent years, Bidvest Noonan has announced a number of investments and initiatives to improve its performance in the area of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. In 2021, the business launched an ED&I Council with the aim of developing a more diverse workforce and a more inclusive workplace. Since its inception the council has overseen a number of new initiatives including campaigns to encourage more women to join the security industry. This year, the company was recognised by Investors in Diversity and Diversity Mark for its work to embed Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) across the organisation. 

Commenting on the win, ED&I Chairperson for Ireland, Marina Goncalves said: “I’m delighted that our work in the area of ED&I was recognised at this year’s ISIA Awards. We believe supporting equality, diversity and inclusion is a moral imperative, and we know that respecting and valuing our differences makes us a stronger and more innovative business.

We want all our people to feel welcomed, valued and able to achieve their potential at Bidvest Noonan.”

Environmental, Social and Governance Director John King added:

“We are very proud of the impact our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programmes are having, and we continuously search for new ways to make a difference. For example, we recently began collaborating with organisations across the UK and Ireland, such as Business in the Community, to help marginalised and disadvantaged groups gain employment and access opportunities for education. This approach is bringing new talent into our business and providing people with the opportunity to have a successful and rewarding career.”

Changing the way we think about plastic

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Plastic pollution has become one of the most important environmental concerns in recent years with production increasing at such a rate that it is becoming impossible to cope.

Single-use plastics account for 40 percent of the plastic produced every year and can persist in the environment for hundreds of years.

That is why we have decided to remove single-use plastics from our business. Reducing our use of premixed, ready-to-use cleaning chemicals is a key initiative to achieve this.

We estimate this change will enable us to remove 95% of our plastic chemical containers and remove c80,000 single-use plastic bottles per year. The following video explains why we are taking this important step:

Bidvest Noonan achieves great results at national cleaning awards

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Bidvest Noonan has been named as winner of several categories at the prestigious ICCA Awards 2021. The Irish Contract Cleaning Association ICCA Awards are widely regarded as the most important event in the cleaning industry in Ireland. The event recognises service excellence in the industry and celebrates the work being carried out behind the scenes on sites by contract cleaning companies and in-house cleaning teams around the country.

The awards ceremony took place on October 14th, at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Our teams delivered an excellent result:

– Bidvest Noonan Team at University College Dublin – Educational Buildings (Higher Education) category

– Bidvest Noonan team at ESB F27 – Office Buildings over 50,000+ sq. ft.

– Bidvest Noonan team at The Shannon Airport Group – COVID-19 Response

– Anthony Boylan, Bidvest Noonan Supervisor at UCD – Supervisor of the Year (Education)

– Anthony Kerrigan, Bidvest Noonan Supervisor at ESB – Supervisor of the Year (Office Buildings)

– Bidvest Noonan team at St Vincent’s University Hospital – Highly Commended Award

– Bidvest Noonan team at Milford Care Centre – Highly Commended Award

– Bidvest Noonan team at a corporate customer in Dublin 4 – Highly Commended Award

These accolades are a testament to the exceptional work that Bidvest Noonan’s cleaning teams do day in and day out to keep our clients’ environments clean, hygienic, and safe.