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Carlisle Security Meets EMU

Carlisle Security is delighted to announce that we have been awarded a large contract to supply security and customer service personnel to Merseyrail Electrics...
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Carlisle Achieves an Investors in People First

Carlisle Support Services is pleased to announce that it has been awarded Investors in People...
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Carlisle Security Ready to Further Reduce Anti-Social Behaviour

Carlisle Security Ready to Further Reduce Anti-Social Behaviour...
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Carlisle Loo Attendants the Best in Britain

Carlisle Cleaning’s personnel were awarded the highest accolade at the 2011 Loo of the Year Awards...
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Carlisle Train Dispatch Team Win Award

At the First TransPennine Express Customer Service Awards, held at the Palace Hotel in Manchester...
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Carlisle Interiors Appoints New MD

Carlisle Interiors, one of the UK’s leading Interior Design, Fit Out, and Shopfitting businesses was appointed a new Managing Director...
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Carlisle Cleaning Triumph at TPE Awards

At the annual First TransPennine Express Customer Service Awards the Carlisle Cleaning team was honoured...
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Carlisle Cleaning Settles RMT Dispute

We are pleased to announce that, following talks at ACAS, we have reached an agreement with the RMT which settles the dispute...
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Carlisle Cleaning success at Loo of the Year Awards

Carlisle Cleaning has kept up its historical run of success with another excellent set of results in the 2011 “Loo of the Year Awards”, promoted by the British Toilet Association...
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Carlisle COO Elected to IPSA Council

Paul Cullinan, Chief Operating Officer of Carlisle Security and Carlisle Cleaning was elected to serve on the International Council of the International Professional Security Association at IPSA’s AGM...
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Carlisle Sponsors Brand Ambassador Award

Field marketing agency Carlisle Retail are proud to be sponsoring the ‘Best Brand Ambassador Award’ at the 2011 Field Marketing and Brand Experience Awards.
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Carlisle Cleaning Makes the Headlines at WH Smith

Carlisle Cleaning are proud to announce that WH Smith, the UK’s leading bookseller, stationer, newsagent and leisure sector retailer, has selected them to provide cleaning services across their network of stores.
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Carlisle Support Services Goes Even Greener

When earlier this year Carlisle Support Services was planning its move to a new headquarters, we were determined that we would create a working environment which was as friendly to the environment as it was good to work in.
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Carlisle Sponsors Unsung Heroes UK Bus Award

Carlisle Support Services announced today that it will be sponsoring the “Unsung Heroes” award at the UK Bus Awards later this year.
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Carlisle Sets Standard for Security Industry Professional Memberships

Carlisle Support Services has increased it’s support of the International Professional Security Association’s Employer Sponsored Membership Scheme.
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Carlisle Retail Secure Major Conversion Project

Carlisle Retail have been awarded 19 of the 31 ex-Focus store conversions by B&Q.
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Carlisle Securitys Gold Standard CCTV

Carlisle Security is pleased and proud to announce that it has been awarded the coveted NACOSS Gold Award for its CCTV installation and maintenance operations, which operate as Carlisle CCTV.
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Carlisle Retail - With You All the Way

Carlisle Retail were nominated as sole supplier to support Focus DIY and its administrators with the sell off of stock across their store estate as part of their closing down sale.
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Carlisle Support Services Moves To New HQ

Carlisle Support Services has moved to a new HQ, Wallace House, but has stayed in Welwyn Garden City.

The move to the new offices on the Shire Park business park which are more than twice as large as the old offices took place on 31 May.
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Westminster City Loos Support Kate & Wills Big Day

On Friday the 29th of April 2011, Great Britain was granted a new Bank Holiday; however, this was no ordinary bank holiday, and Westminster City Loos played their part.
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Quality Cleaning Services for WORLD CLASS Hotels

Congratulations are in order to the operational team responsible for the delivery of our new cleaning contract with Accor Group.
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Carlisle Cleaning is On Track with Rail Cleaning Contract Win

London Midland operates train services through the heart of England from London in the south, to Birmingham in the Midlands and Liverpool in the northwest, and Carlisle Cleaning is adding to their success with a high quality cleaning service.
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Carlisle Support Services Represented at the East-West Security Conference

The 21st East-West Security Conference which brings together security experts from Western Europe with those from Eastern Europe, and particular those representing the Russian Duma (Parliament) was just taken place in Monaco.

Representing the International Professional Security Association (“IPSA”), Carlisle Support Services’ Commercial Director, Paul Trendall, who is also on the Governance Board of the Security Alliance, spoke about “Purchasing Security Services”.
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Carlisle Security – Lean Mean and Now Green

Within the last month Carlisle Security has received its ISO 14001 accreditation. ISO 14001 is an internationally accepted standard that sets out how to go about putting in place an effective Environmental Management System (EMS). The standard is designed to address the delicate balance between maintaining profitability and reducing environmental impact.
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Carlisle Retail Provides Training in Saudi Arabia

Carlisle Retail Services has successfully delivered a merchandising manager training programme for a customer in Saudi Arabia. The client set an objective of transferring their tried and tested merchandising capabilities into their own team of regional merchandisers that service supermarkets across Saudi Arabia.

We developed a 4 day training module, which was delivered to 100 staff over a three month period. This not only focused on visual merchandising standards and principles, but also best practice management and customer service skills.
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Carlisle Security Gets Closer to Clients

Carlisle Security is now a member of the Institute of Customer Service Institute. MD Martin Woollam explained “We have joined the Institute of Customer Service to improve the services we provide.

The institute will help us in a number of ways to achieve the goals we have set ourselves by independently seeking feedback on what we do and then benchmarking the results against others in our field. Our customers are the single most important stakeholder in our business and we need to look after them”. Martin continued, say: “The security industry is changing and so is the world of our clients. We need to make sure that we are moving in the same direction.”
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Carlisle Retail Support Centre Goes Live

Carlisle Retail Services recently completed 4 high profile range change projects for key clients in the DIY sector.

The projects bought together a total of 400 staff across the UK, each working different shifts across a 24 hour periods on a 6 days a week basis. On an average day our staff were active at over 50 sites per day.
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Do Security Consultants Need to be Accredited?

In a recent article for Risk UK, Carlisle Support Services’ Commercial Director and International Council Member of IPSA, Paul Trendall, questioned the need to accredit Security Consultants in the same way as it is proposed to accredit health and safety consultants.
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