February 25, 2020 · Archive

$ABM was started by a lone San Francisco window washer in 1909

ABM Industries Inc. (www.abm.com) is a facilities management company that was founded in San Francisco in 1909 as a single-person window washing business. Today, the company employees more than 130,000 people who provide a wide range of services including electrical, lighting, janitorial, landscaping, parking, HVAC and mechanical maintenance for commercial facilities. It’s tempting to copy/paste so much of the origin story from Wikipedia, because its …

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