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Aramark is an American food service and facilities services company headquartered in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It runs cafeterias, catering, concessions and facility management under contract for clients in education, healthcare, business, corrections, sports and leisure, including major league sports venues and most of the food served on Amtrak trains. It operates in the United States and Canada and in 14 other countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Chile, Ireland and Spain, and earns contract revenue for the services it provides, buying food and supplies from manufacturers and distributors such as Sysco. Aramark reported revenue of US$18.5 billion and net income of US$326 million for its 2025 fiscal year, with 278,390 employees. It was founded in 1936 by Davre and Henry Davidson as Davidson Brothers, a vending business for aviation plant workers in Southern California, became Automatic Retailers of America in 1959 and adopted the Aramark name in 1994. A group led by long-time chief executive Joseph Neubauer with CCMP Capital, Goldman Sachs, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Warburg Pincus took it private in a deal completed in 2007. In 2023 it spun off its uniform business as the listed company Vestis; John Zillmer has been chief executive since October 2019.

Madison Air Solutions Corp is an HVAC and indoor air-quality technology company. Its segments are Commercial and Residential. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Commercial segment, which includes Commercial businesses that deliver well-engineered, custom, and semi-custom air quality systems to support process control, regulatory compliance, energy efficiency, and productivity in mission-critical environments; and the Residential segment, anchored by trusted brands like AprilAire, Broan-NuTone, Zephyr, and Others. Its geographic areas are the U.S, the Americas, Europe, and Other. The group generates the majority of its revenue from the U.S market.

Rentokil Initial is the largest global provider of route-based pest control and commercial hygiene services, operating in 89 countries, with its largest operations in the United States following the acquisition of Terminix. The group also offers a range of specialist route-based services, including office and commercial space plant care, property care, and workwear rentals. The group serves a diverse client base of global food producers, hotel chains, industrial goods companies, restaurants, and individual residential customers.

Sodexo is one of the largest food service companies globally, operating in 45 countries with annual sales exceeding EUR 20 billion. Sodexo's model rests on operating on-premises catering facilities, rather than centralized industrial kitchens. Food services remain the largest business segment, contributing 66% of revenue in 2024. Sodexo has its own group purchasing organization, or GPO, Entegra, with annual purchasing of over EUR 37 billion. The company spun off its benefits and service business, Pluxee, and now focuses on food services and its second business, facilities-management services.

ISS AS is a provider of workplace and facility service solutions with a focus on cleaning, property, catering, support, security, and facility management. It has four segments: Financial services, Professional services, Technology, and Life sciences. Its core services offered to customers consist of cleaning, food, technical, and workplace services. Revenue is mainly generated in European end markets, with the majority earned in the United Kingdom.

FirstService Corp is engaged in outsourcing property services. The company operates in two business divisions: FirstService Residential and FirstService Brands. FirstService Residential has service contracts to manage thousands of residential communities, including high and low-rise condominiums and co-operatives. FirstService Brands generates the majority of the company's revenue and provides property services to residential and commercial customers through the following brands: California Closets; Paul Davis Restoration; CertaPro Painters, Floor Coverings International, and Pillar to Post Home Inspectors. The company earns the majority of its revenue in the United States, with the remaining revenue generated in Canada.

Elis SA provides multiservice solutions to various end markets including the hospitality, healthcare, and commerce industries. The company’s products and services include providing flat linen, workwear, hygiene products, and well-being services. The company operates in various countries across Europe and Latin America, with a majority of revenue stemming from France.

Brookfield Business Partners LP is a business services and industrials company. It focused on operating businesses that are either low-cost producers and benefit from high barriers to entry. The company's operating segment includes Business services; Infrastructure services; Industrials and Corporate and other. It generates maximum revenue from the Business Services segment. Geographically operates in USA, Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, UK, Mexico and Other, majority of revenue is from UK.

UniFirst Corp provides uniform and workwear programs, facility management, and safety supplies and services across North America. It designs, manufactures, rents, cleans, and sells uniforms and protective clothing, including flame-resistant and high-visibility garments. It also offers industrial wiping products, floor mats, cleaning supplies, first aid cabinets, and fire protection services such as inspection and maintenance. Serving various industries, the company provides customized uniforms and specialized cleaning for nuclear and cleanroom facilities. It operates through three segments: Uniform & Facility Service Solutions, First Aid & Safety Solutions, and Other, with the majority of revenue from Uniform & Facility Service Solutions.

Alliance Laundry Holdings Inc is designer and manufacturer of commercial laundry systems, serving diverse international markets. The company offers premium, durable laundry equipment under brands like Speed Queen, UniMac, Huebsch, Primus, IPSO, and others. It serves commercial laundry needs across healthcare, hotels, laundromats, and residential markets.

Legence Corp is a provider of engineering, installation, and maintenance services for critical systems in buildings. It focuses on sectors that have technically demanding buildings, including technology, life sciences, healthcare, and education. Legence specializes in designing, fabricating, and installing complex heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), process piping, and other mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems for new facilities and upgrading HVAC, lighting, and building controls in existing facilities to enhance building performance, reliability, and efficiency. The services are mainly provided on a fixed price basis. The company has two reportable segments: Installation and Maintenance, which generates the maximum revenue, and Engineering and Consulting.

Wuchan Zhongda Group Co Ltd is engaged in industrial investment, equity investment, asset management, investment management, management consulting, information consulting services. It is also engaged in car sales and leasing, e-commerce technology services, used car transactions and services.

MITIE Group PLC is a U.K.-based company. The company's reportable segments include Technical services, Business services, Central Government & Defence, Communities, and Corporate Centre. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the technical services and business services segments. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom.

ABM Industries Inc is a provider of integrated facility solutions. It offers its solutions through five segments: Business and Industry, Manufacturing and Distribution, Education, Aviation and Technical solutions. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the business and industry segment, which encompasses janitorial, facilities engineering, and parking services for commercial real estate properties and sports and entertainment venues, hospitals, as well as vehicle maintenance and other services to rental car providers. The company mainly operates in the United States of America.

Carmila SA, formerly Carmila SAS is a retail property company, which engages in marketing, leasing, shopping center management and portfolio management. It regenerates and extracts value on shopping centers anchored by Carrefour stores. The company operates through the following segments: France; Spain; and Italy. Majority of the firm's revenue gets derived from France region.

Badger Infrastructure Solutions Ltd is North America's provider of non-destructive excavating and related services, with operations in both the United States and Canada. Its key technology is the Badger Hydrovac, which is used predominantly for safe excavation around critical infrastructure and in congested underground conditions. The Badger Hydrovac uses a pressurized water stream to liquefy the soil cover, which is then removed with a powerful vacuum system and deposited into a storage tank. The company manufactures and designs its truck-mounted hydrovac units into its existing and future design and manufacturing processes. Badger’s two reportable segments are Canada and the United States, which is the key revenue generating market.

Tasmea Ltd is a skilled services group. It provides specialist maintenance services, including essential shutdown, programmed maintenance, emergency breakdown, and sustaining capital upgrade services to asset and infrastructure owners of fixed plant operating in essential Australian industries. The company operates across the following five segments: Electrical services, Mechanical services, Civil services, Water and Fluid services, and Workforce Solutions services. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the Workforce Solutions segment, which includes labour hire and workforce management services to blue chip essential asset owners across Australia.

Target Hospitality Corp is a vertically integrated specialty rental and hospitality services company in the United States. The company provides vertically integrated specialty rental and comprehensive hospitality services including catering food services, maintenance, housekeeping, grounds-keeping, on-site security, overall workforce lodge management, and laundry service. Its operating segment includes HFS-South and HFS-Midwest; Government; TCPL Keystone and others. It generates a majority of its revenue from the Government segment which consists of specialty rental and vertically integrated hospitality services revenue from customers with Government contracts located in Texas.

GPS Participacoes E Empreendimentos SA is engaged in the provision of property security services, sanitation and cleaning services, indoor logistics services, electronic security services, implementation, operation and building maintenance, maritime hotel services on oil platforms, kitchen services and meal sales, highway maintenance services, and participation in companies through the acquisition of shares or capital quotas.

Wintech Nano (Suzhou) Co Ltd is engaged in semiconductor third-party testing and analysis services.

Shoucheng Holdings Ltd is engaged in the operation and management of car parking assets; and the management of private funds oriented towards urban development. The principal activity of the Company is investment holding. The Group’s revenue comes from asset operations and FIME. Asset operations include industry-based services, technology, consulting, research, innovation, value-adding, and other services generated around core infrastructure assets. FIME includes income from consultancy services for public offering REITs and management and investment of public offering REITs development funds and strategic placement funds.

Perella Weinberg Partners is a global independent advisory firm founded in 2006 by Joseph Perella, Peter Weinberg and a group of senior finance professionals. The firm advises companies, boards, investors and governments on mergers and acquisitions, capital structure, restructuring, shareholder matters and strategic decisions. It launched with offices in New York and London and later expanded across major financial centres. Its revenue is derived primarily from advisory fees rather than lending, underwriting balance sheet or managing a large commercial bank. Istithmar supplied USD 100 million at launch as one of the firm’s strategic founding investors and represented roughly ten percent of the more than USD 1 billion of initial backing. The investment supported establishment of the advisory platform and its investment-management activities. Perella Weinberg later became publicly traded while retaining its independent advisory positioning.

Open Up Group Inc provides human resource services and outsourcing or contracting services for manufacturing companies in Japan and overseas. The business segments of the company include: Mechatronics/IT field: it includes workers dispatching, contracting, consignment business such as development design engineers. Construction area segment includes construction management engineer business / CAD operator dispatch business for customers in construction industry. Manufacturing Area segment includes manufacturing site contracting and dispatch business for customers in manufacturing industry Temporary staffing, outsourcing and referral business for technology and manufacturing fields.

BrightView Holdings Inc is a provider of commercial landscaping services in the United States. The company provides commercial landscaping services, landscape maintenance, and enhancements to tree care and landscape development. It operates through two segments namely Maintenance Services, and Development Services. The Maintenance Services are self-performed through a national branch network and are route-based in nature. It includes mowing, gardening, mulching and snow removal, water management etc. And Development Services are comprised of sophisticated design, coordination, and installation of landscapes at recognizable corporate, athletic, and university complexes. The company generates a majority of its revenue from Maintenance Services.

Matrix Design Co Ltd is mainly engaged in space design and soft furnishing business, and its main service projects are sales offices, model rooms, and other space areas of residential real estate. In the non-residential field, the company's business covers office, hotel, commercial, health care, and other business areas.

Dexterra Group Inc offers support services for the creation, management, and operation of infrastructure across Canada. Dexterra Group brings right expertise to every challenge and delivers solutions, giving clients confidence in their day-to-day operations. The company has two segments: Support Services and Asset Based Services. Activities include a comprehensive range of facilities management services, industry workforce accommodation solutions, modular building capabilities, and other support services for diverse clients in the public and private sectors.

Johnson Service Group PLC United Kingdom-based company that provides textile-related services to businesses and consumers. It is a supplier of work wear and protective wear, offering these services through Johnsons Workwear brand. The company also provides premium linen services for the hotel, catering and hospitality markets, and high volume hotel linen services, through a number of different brands which include Johnsons Hotel Linen, Johnsons Hotel, Restaurant & Catering Linen, Johnsons Restaurant & Catering Linen and Regency. It has two reporting segments; Workwear, and Hotel, Restaurant and Catering which is also its key revenue generating segment.

Restore PLC provides mission-critical services enabling organizations to protect, and manage their valuable data, information, and assets. The company's segment includes Information Management; Datashred and Technology. The company's notable service revenue streams consist of document storage and retrieval services; document scanning and IT services; relocation services; and document collection and destruction. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Information Management segment. Geographically, the company principally operates in the UK.

Quess Corp Ltd is engaged in the business of providing services in General Staffing, Professional Staffing, Overseas business, and Digital platform business based in India. The company's operating segment includes General Staffing; Professional Staffing. Overseas Staffing and Digital Platforms. It generates maximum revenue from the General Staffing segment that provides end-to-end workforce solutions for industries such as BFSI, retail, manufacturing, telecom, logistics, and construction. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from India.

Coor Service Management Holding AB is a Sweden-based company providing integrated facility management services in the Nordic region with specialist expertise in workplace services, property services, and strategic consulting. Coor offers effective and flexible solutions that create business benefits for its customers. The company conducts operations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, but also Belgium, and Estonia. It generates revenue from sales of services that are provided under the terms of subscription contracts or on a fixed-price or time and materials basis.

Mestek Inc and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute heating, ventilating, and air conditioning equipment (HVAC) including architectural products, and metal forming equipment. The company manufactures its HVAC equipment and metal forming equipment at twelve factory locations and sells through an established distributor, dealer, and manufacturer's representative channels, in the United States and Canada. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from North America and also has a presence in Europe, Asia, Mexico, and the Rest of the World.

BLS E- Services Ltd is a digital service provider in India. It provides business correspondence services to banks in India, Assisted E-services, and E-Governance Services at grassroots levels in India. Its robust network provides access points for the delivery of essential public utility services, social welfare schemes, healthcare, financial, educational, agricultural, and banking services for governments (G2C) and businesses (B2B) alike, in addition to a host of B2C services to citizens in urban, semi-urban, rural, and remote areas. Business Correspondents provide banking products and services on behalf of banks to people while performing a variety of services, including opening savings, recurring deposit accounts, cash deposits, withdrawals, remittances, transfers, and bill collection.

Andrews Sykes Group PLC engages in the rental of pumping equipment and specialist climate control products, which include air conditioning and chillers, heating and boilers, dehumidifiers, and ventilation units. Its operating segments are Hire & Sales UK, Hire and Sales Europe, Hire and Sales Middle East, and the UK installation business. The majority of the revenue is derived from the Hire & Sales UK segment. Its geographical segments are the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and the Rest of the World.

Lassila & Tikanoja PLC is engaged in environmental management and property and plant maintenance. The company's business consisted of two operating and reportable segments: Environmental Services and Industrial Services. It operates in Finland and Sweden.

EVI Industries Inc is a value-added distributor and service provider in the commercial laundry industry. It sells and leases commercial laundry equipment, specializing in washing, drying, finishing, material handling, water heating, power generation, and water reuse applications. The company supports its equipment offerings with installation, maintenance, and repair services through a large network of trained technicians. It serves a wide range of customers, including commercial, industrial, institutional, government, and retail sectors. Geographically, the company serves various countries including United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Accel SAB de CV manages logistics and manufacturing operations. Its logistics division offers invetntory, warehousing, and transportation services. Accel's manufacturing division produces and distributes packaged foods.

Daesang Holdings Co Ltd is a holding company. The company is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of processed food products such as processed food and starch products. Its products mostly include Soyabean paste; Marinade; Soy sauce; fish sauce and amongst others.

Startia Holdings Inc is engaged in the provision of information technology services in Japan. It operates through the following business divisions: the web solution-related division, the network solution-related divisions, and the business solution-related divisions.

Catering International Services is engaged in the business of providing catering accommodations and facilities management services for companies operating in difficult environments. The company is engaged in promoting the socio-economic development of local populations in countries where it operates and also integrated services with its core business. Its services portfolio consists of transport and supply, construction, engineering, multi-technical maintenance, waste management, housekeeping, collection, laundry etc. The company has Africa, Asia, Oceania, Middle East, South America and Commonwealth of independent states geographic segments. It derives the majority of its revenue from Africa segment.

System Support Holdings Inc is engaged in providing systems solutions which include system integration, transition to cloud-based infrastructure, ERP integration, data center running, and package-based software development.

E-Guardian Inc provides community site planning services, temporary staffing service, user support services, and other services.

Kompeito Inc provides employee welfare and workplace services focused on employee health and office-based promotional activities. Its business activities include operating the "OFFICE DE YASAI" employee welfare service, managing "OFFICE DE MEDIA" promotional sampling services, and operating "SALAD STAND" salad vending machines.

Braemar PLC provides advice in investment, chartering, and risk management to enable its clients to secure sustainable returns and mitigate risk in shipping and energy industry. The company's operating segment are, Chartering, Investment Advisory and Risk Advisory. The majority of the revenue for the company is generated from its Chartering business segment under which it provides cost-saving solutions that create and protect the deals for their clients. Geographically, the company has its presence in United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, United States, Germany and Rest of the world. A substantial part of its overall revenue is generated from its business in United Kingdom.

Tobila Systems Inc develops telecommunication-related systems. It develops and provides nuisance information filter systems for mobile, Fixed-line Telephone, and other businesses. Geographically, the activities are carried out in Japan. The Company operates a single segment, the nuisance information filtering business.

Elevate Service Group Inc is a platform company focused on consolidating and modernizing the facilities management and commercial services industry across North America. It offers a single point of contact to deliver a comprehensive suite of essential facility services including electrical, plumbing, equipment repair, recurring preventative maintenance, store renovations, and capital asset management. The company also provide warehousing and inventory storage in proximity to client needs.

Green Landscaping Group AB, along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the maintenance and planning of outdoor environments such as green areas, parks, courtyards, tree care, and sports facilities. The service areas it is involved in are landscaping and construction, and ground maintenance. During winter, it also offers snow and ice removal. The group's operations are divided into different segments based on the geographic locations, and include Sweden, Norway, and Other Europe. Maximum revenue is generated from its business in Sweden.

Luotea PLC is a facility services company that provides solutions for the management and maintenance of real estate assets throughout their lifecycle. Its services include property maintenance, technical support, cleaning, and other building support services. The company incorporates energy efficiency, smart technology, and sustainability considerations in its offerings to support property operations and occupant needs.

Shalfa Facilities Management Co provides facilities management solutions, environmental services, and project management services.