Management Cleaning & Maintenance The leading media brand in the JanSan market — for five decades. 50 At A By: Phillip Lawless Phillip Lawless is Editor of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine; he can be reached at PLawless@ GrandViewMedia.com. A graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lawless has over 13 years of professional writing and editing experience. A lot of things can change in 50 years. If one compares daily life and work routines in 2014 to 1964, many differences quickly become apparent. Daily newspapers, rotary telephones and TV an-tennas are examples of common staples that are now either completely extinct or rarely used. Often in a generation that includes rapid techno-logical advancement, only a handful of prominent, successful operations survive and still are going strong 50 years later. One great example of long-term dependability and success in the cleaning industry is Cleaning & Main-tenance Management maga-zine. cation transitioned to Cleaning Management maga-zine in January 1972 based on different develop-ments in the JanSan market. To better communicate our coverage of both the custodial and maintenance markets, the modern Cleaning & Maintenance Management name de-buted in January 1995. Our History For five decades, our magazine consistently has been the go-to in-formation resource for managers in the cleaning and sanitation market. Actually, our publication can trace its history back as far as 1937 to Cus-todian Training published by L.O. “Tom-my” Thompson. Even so, National Custodian magazine is officially recognized as the beginning of Cleaning & Maintenance Management . The first issue of National Custodian was published in October 1964 by the American Institute of Maintenance. After eight years as National Custodian , the publi-The name and design of our magazine has changed over the past five decades, but our dedication to bringing you the latest information from the JanSan market has stayed the same. 6 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • January 2014
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