Commercial cleaning
Contracted cleaning for offices, medical facilities, schools and industrial sites.
The business, as an owner knows it
A good commercial cleaning business is built on contracts that renew year after year because the work gets done properly and problems get fixed the same day they are raised. Offices, medical centres, schools, clubs and industrial sites need cleaning every night whether the economy is up or down, and the switching cost for a customer is real: inductions, security clearances, site knowledge, trust.
The owner usually knows every site personally. The hard parts are the parts outsiders never see: rostering across dozens of sites, covering absences at 5am, quality inspections, retaining reliable supervisors, and managing award compliance properly. A cleaning business that has survived 20 years has solved problems that new entrants have not met yet.
Why Talia Capital acquires here
Cleaning is essential, contracted, recurring and business-to-business. The value is in the contract base, the supervisors and the site relationships, built over years of turning up. None of that is glamorous and all of it is durable.
We are not buying to strip costs. In cleaning, the workforce is the business, and cutting corners on people shows up on the floor within a fortnight. We acquire cleaning businesses to run them properly for decades, keep the supervisors who hold the client relationships, and grow site by site at a pace the roster can carry.
What we look for
- 15 or more years of trading with long-standing contracts
- Roughly 10 to 40 employees, with stable supervisors
- Commercial and institutional customers on renewing contracts, not domestic work
- A spread of sites, with no single contract dominating revenue
- Clean award compliance and workers compensation history
- An owner thinking about succession
These criteria are a guide, not a gate. If your business doesn’t tick every box, we would rather have the conversation than miss something good. See the full criteria.
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