Amtech Lighting Services Awarded Kinko's Contract.ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1999-- Amtech Lighting Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries ABM Industries Incorporated NYSE: ABM is an American corporation involved in outsourced, building maintenance. Divisions include ABM Janitorial, Ampco System Parking, ABM Engineering, American Commercial Security (ACSS), Security Services of America (SSA), Amtech Lighting, and Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ABM ABM: see guided missile. ABM - Asynchronous Balanced Mode ) has been awarded a three-year contract to provide lighting maintenance service for 950 Kinko's locations nationwide. The planned lighting maintenance program includes scheduled visits every 60 days, with on-call service for exterior sign and lighting repairs, and installation of energy efficient lamps. "Kinko's needs a lighting service company that can respond 7 days a week, 24 hours a day," explained Ron Gilcrease, president of Amtech Lighting Services. "Amtech is the perfect alliance partner for Kinko's, since our Customer Care Center is always available and ready to respond to all their lighting needs," he added. "Customers expect Kinko's branches to always be open and ready for business and our agreement with Amtech Lighting Services helps ensure that," said Linda Cantley, Kinko's purchasing manager A Purchasing Manager is an employee within a company, business or other organization who is responsible at some level for buying or approving the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. . "It's great to work with a vendor that has the same hours as we do -- 24/7. An equally important benefit is the expected reduction in operating expense Operating Expense The essential things that a company must purchase in order to maintain business. Notes: For example, the payment of employees wages are an operating expense. Also known as OPEX. . Through Amtech's scheduled maintenance plan, we should see considerable savings in our operating costs," she added. Kinko's is the leading global retail provider of document copying and business services. A privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation with more than 25,000 co-workers worldwide, Kinko's was named by Fortune magazine as one of the top 100 companies to work for in the U.S. Amtech Lighting Services provides comprehensive illumination programs that significantly reduce long-term energy and maintenance costs. For its exceptional efforts and achievements in energy conservation and management, Amtech has been named the Environmental Protection Agency's "Green Light Ally of the Year" for 1999. Amtech operates 26 branch offices across the country from its headquarters in Anaheim, California. ABM Industries Incorporated is the largest facility services contractor listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . With annual sales in excess of $1.5 billion and more than 55,000 employees, ABM performs air conditioning, elevator, engineering, janitorial, lighting, parking and security services to thousands of commercial, industrial and institutional customers in hundreds of cities across North America. In addition to Amtech Lighting, the ABM Family of Services also includes, American Building Maintenance, American Commercial Security (ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ), Ampco System Parking, Amtech Elevator, ABM Engineering, ABM Janitorial, CommAir Mechanical, Easterday Janitorial Supply and ABM Facility Services. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion