Spotless Group Holdings is an Australian listed company that provides Integrated facility services in Australian and New Zealand through a number of house brands. The company was formed in 1957, and currently employs more than 36,000 people, acquisitions have been an important driver of growth throughout its history. Operations Spotless operate a number of in-house brands, providing services in seven different areas to the industry groups; Laundry and linen Health, education and government Commercial and leisure Base and township Laundries The laundry and linen branch operates in its own division, which provides 10% of revenue and is represented by the brands Ensign and Taylors. Facilities services The remaining six service areas, which report under the Facilities Services division, include: Asset management, operating the brands of Spotless, Nationwide Venue Management (NVM) Asset maintenance, under the brands, Assets Services, AE Smith, Nuvo Catering, under the brands, Epicure, Alliance, Mustard Cleaning, under the brands, Clean Domain, Clean Event Utilities services, under the brands, Utility Asset Service Group (UASG) Security, under the brand TechGuard Security (TGS) History 1946 Ian McMullin founded Spotless as a dry cleaning business at 129 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Australia 1957 Business Incorporated as Spotless Pty Ltd 1961 Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) as Spotless Limited 1968 Introduced a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise from the United States 1970 Expand into New Zealand through Nationwide Food Services 1971 Acquired a local garment hanger supply business 1972 Ian McMullin (founder) retires, remains as director 1977 Expanded into the industrial laundry space with the acquisition of a 50% interest in Ensign, the remaining 50% was acquired in 1981. 1977 Expanded into New Zealand market through laundry business acquisitions 1984 Diversified into food services with the acquisition of Nationwide Food Services and O’Brien. Catering (focused on stadia, residential, boarding schools and mine sites catering) 1987 First contract with the Australian Department of Defence. Acquired Plastiform (US based) to expand into the international garment hanger manufacturing and supply business 1991 Increased scale of the New Zealand laundries business with the acquisition of 55% of Taylors (New Zealand Stock Exchange listed laundry services business); the remaining 45% was acquired in 2009 1993 Enhanced catering offering with the acquisition of Mustard Catering, a large Western Australia based up-market catering group 1999 Strengthened facility maintenance and cleaning capabilities with the acquisition of Support Services businesses from P&O in Australia and New Zealand 2001 Acquired Braitrim (UK based),