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Sales and profit per employee in 1999 (£)
Company No. of employees Sales per employee Profit per employee
Mitie Group 20,599 12,838.24 704.31
OCS Group 42,980 7,639.83 349.37
Pall Mall Support Services 4,678 8,380 201.00
Ramoneur 2,307 7,930.21 205.90
RCO Holdings 7,859 7,974.04 311.49
Rentokil Initial 119,254 24,846.97 4,537.37
Sodexho 40,044 16,483.04 898.74
Source: Key Note
Average hourly earnings of contract cleaners, April 2000
  1999 2000
Female full-time £4.64 £4.85
Male full-time £5.15 £5.35
Source: The Low Pay Unit
No. of industrial cleaning businesses by turnover
  1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Turnover sizeband (£ 000)
Under 50		 1,640 1,635 1,700 1,690 1,655
50-99 1,940 2,025 2,140 2,295 2,430
100-249 1,515 1,610 1,720 1,830 2,005
250-499 650 650 690 760 790
500-999 370 370 390 405 440
1,000-4,999 285 295 305 345 355
5,000 and over 80 85 80 105 110
Source: Business Monitor/Key Note/MBD
Estimated UK cleaning turnover and market share in 1999
  UK cleaning turnover (£ million) per cent
Rentokil Initial 280 7.8
ISS International Service System 200 5.5
OCS Group 150 4.2
MITIE Group 80 2.2
RCO Holdings 45 1.2
Pall Mall Support Services 40 1.1
Barkland (UK) 35 1.0
Sodexho 30 0.8
Broadreach Group 30 0.8
LI Group 30 0.8
Other companies 2,685 74.5
Total 3,605 99.9
Source: Key Note estimates