On the Road with Bill Griffin

Bill Griffin travels often and likes to record those travels on video. Below you will find videos he has made throughout his travels. Some he is being interviewed, others, he is doing the interviewing. Most are simply tours of cleaning industry tradeshows he attended.

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Interviews with Industry Leaders

Walter Kohler, CEO - Koblenz

Bill Griffin caught up with Mr. Kohler in Mexico City in August of 2006. In an exclusive, private interview, Griffin talks with Kohler about his business and what it takes to build a small business into an industry leader.

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Eric Hoffmann, European Manager - Avmor Ltd.

Bill Griffin caught up with Mr. Hoffmann at the ISSA\INTERCLEAN Show in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May of 2006. In an exclusive, private interview, Griffin talks with Hoffmann about his the standards that are being developed and applied to the cleaning industry thorughout Europe.

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Larry Shideler, CEO - Pro-Team Vacuums

Bill Griffin caught up with Mr. Shideler at the ISSA\INTERCLEAN Show in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May of 2006. In an exclusive, private interview, Griffin talks with Shideler about his career, industry trends, success and what role he sees Pro-Team playing in the future of the cleaning industry.

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Gregory E. Lawton, CEO - JohnsonDiversey

Bill Griffin caught up with Mr. Lawton at the ISSA\INTERCLEAN Show in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May of 2002. In an exclusive, private interview, Griffin talks with Lawton about his career, industry trends, success and what role Lawton sees JohnsonDiversey playing in the future of the cleaning industry. An insightful interview with the head of a $2.6 billion company with 15,000 employees.

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Roger E. Parrott Jr., President - ISSA Board of Directors

Bill Griffin sits down with Roger Parrott and discusses the future of the cleaning industry and the role that the ISSA will play. They discuss what is involved with being the President of the Board of the ISSA and what role the president plays in the ISSA.

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Jim McClure, President - ABM Industries, Inc.

Bill Griffin visits the Windy City by the Bay to interview Jim McClure, President of ABM in his office at ABMI Corporate headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Griffin and McClure discuss the history of ABM, what makes the company different than other cleaning contractors, as well as industry trends and how McClure got to the top. Get the inside scoop in this one-on-one interview with the President of ABM Janitorial, the largest cleaning contractor in America with 44,000 employees and $1.5 billion in annual revenue.

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Interviews with Experts and Authorities

Giles Trendle, Speaker - Guerrilla Matrix
World Federation of Building Service Contractors Congress
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2002

Congress attendees were shocked by Trendle's presentation. When he held up a list of 600 American companies that he claimed are being targeted by radical hackers in Lebanon, he got everyone's attention and the room went silent. Hear first hand in a private and exclusive interview, how Trendle believes guerrilla tactics can enable the smallest cleaning business to beat the big guys in profit and performance.

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Perry Shimanoff, President and Founder - Management & Communication Consultants
San Carlos, California, July 2002

Griffin discusses custodial audits for schools with Perry Shimanoff. They discuss the options for schools and what exactly is involved in a custodial audit. Schimanoff explains what he does for a school during an audit, the benifits of conducting audits and how to go about setting up an audit.

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Perry Shimanoff, President and Founder - Management & Communication Consultants
San Carlos, California, July 2002

Griffin discusses seminars for school custodians with Perry Shimanoff. They talk about the training options for schools and what role Mr. Schimanoff plays in those options. Schimanoff discribes the benifits of training a custodial staff and what his seminar cas do for the staff.

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Steven Tolli, Director of Technical Services - Wicanders Cork Flooring

Griffin sits down with Steven Tolli to discuss Cork Flooring. Tolli describes the uses of cork flooring and how to maintain and take care of the flooring to make it last for a life time.

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