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Australian Cleaning Industry to enjoy new national show

ISSA and Australia's commercial and institutional cleaning industry have announced the launch of the ISSA Cleaning & Hygiene Expo Australia. This new dedicated expo experience is one of the first accomplishments resulting from the recent National Cleaning Suppliers' Association merger with ISSA. The Expo will debut 9th - 10th May, 2017, at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Following the merger, ISSA asked Australian industry leaders what was most needed in the market and a single exhibition experience was resoundingly requested, reports the ISSA. This led to an agreement between Interpoint Events and Intermedia, owner of Australia's leading cleaning and hygiene trade publication, Inclean Magazine, and ISSA, to consolidate and replace the previously competing AusClean Pulire and CleanScene shows in the region.

"This is perhaps the most significant marketing initiative in our Australian cleaning industry's recent history," notes ISSA Oceania council chairman Stuart Nicol. "Our industry has been crying out for a number of years for one dedicated event that addresses the needs of our audiences in this highly competitive and challenging environment, and the ISSA Cleaning & Hygiene Expo is the answer to that. The positive industry response to this-from a wide range of stakeholders-has been overwhelming."

ISSA director of EMEA and Oceania Dianna Steinbach, adds: "It became clear to ISSA that many Australian cleaning and hygiene industry firms and their customers felt that having two competitive events was financially unsustainable, logistically unworkable, and didn't deliver enough value.

"Therefore we chose to pursue a partnership with Interpoint to more quickly deliver what the industry most needed. Now, the industry can plan for one annual event that will rotate between the country's two major cities of Melbourne and Sydney."

ISSA and Interpoint will jointly own and collaboratively administer and promote the event to all end-customer buyers, including building service contractors; contract cleaners; carpet and restoration technicians; and in-house service providers working in healthcare, hospitality, retail, government, industry, and education. The ISSA says that the Expo will be a major go-to event, reflecting the same ethos demonstrated at other worldwide ISSA shows. The expo will be complemented with a robust seminar and workshop programme, networking opportunities, and co-located events such as the Safety First Conference & Expo and National Manufacturing Week, featured at the ISSA Cleaning & Hygiene Expo 2017.

Simon Grover and Simon Cooper, managing partners of Interpoint and Intermedia say: "The Interpoint and ISSA teams are excited to be bringing the very best to our audiences, in product innovation; education and training; and opportunities for national and local networking as part of one dedicated event.

Interpoint's partner AFIDAMP, owner of the Pulire brand of events, is also said to be an ardent supporter of the dedicated expo for this region.
Firms already contracted into the AusClean Pulire 2017 event will be seamlessly transferred to the new expo. Any additional firms interested in booking space can contact Interpoint or ISSA for further information.

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3rd November 2016