{ "schemaVersion": 1, "organisationId": "O-0722839247a04386b44c1c6f85a3ba9b", "slug": "iss-as", "name": "ISS AS", "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T14:38:52.179325Z", "sections": [ { "type": "OVERVIEW", "text": "ISS A/S is the holding company for the ISS Group; the operating-company overview below refers to the consolidated Group, as ISS A/S itself has no revenue-generating activities. [P6197426] The Group is a Denmark-based provider of workplace experience and facility services, supporting customers with services such as cleaning, catering and integrated facility management. [https://www.issworld.com/] Its stated purpose is to “Connect people and places to make the world work better.” [P39390691]\n\nISS traces its origins to a Copenhagen night-watch company founded in 1901 and has grown into a business operating across 60 markets. [https://www.issworld.com/about-us/celebrating-125-years-of-iss] Company materials report more than 325,000 employees and 40,000 customers. [https://www.issworld.com/about-us] For the year ended 31 December 2025, Group revenue was DKK 84.7 billion. [https://www.issworld.com/insights/news-and-press/annual-report-2025]\n[P6197426][https://www.issworld.com/][P39390691][https://www.issworld.com/about-us/celebrating-125-years-of-iss][https://www.issworld.com/about-us][https://www.issworld.com/insights/news-and-press/annual-report-2025][https://www.issworld.com/][https://www.issworld.com/about-us/celebrating-125-years-of-iss][https://www.issworld.com/about-us][https://www.issworld.com/insights/news-and-press/annual-report-2025]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T14:38:52.179325Z" }, { "type": "PRODUCTS", "text": "ISS provides on-site cleaning, technical, food and workplace services, often coordinated as integrated facility-service solutions. In the first half of 2026, reported revenue was DKK 18,954 million from cleaning (42.4% of total), DKK 10,705 million from technical services (23.9%), DKK 6,560 million from food services (14.7%) and DKK 8,483 million from other services (19.0%). These are broad service categories, not sales of individual products. [T17925467]\n\nCleaning offerings include the Pure Space framework, with services adapted for offices, healthcare and production environments. ISS describes standardized procedures and staff training tailored to site needs; healthcare cleaning covers clinical and non-clinical areas, with attention to hygiene, compliance and infection prevention. 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[https://www.issworld.com/services/workplace][https://www.issworld.com/integrated-facility-services]\n[T17925467][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning/healthcare][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning/office][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning/production][https://www.issworld.com/services/technical][https://www.issworld.com/services/food-catering][https://www.issworld.com/services/workplace][https://www.issworld.com/integrated-facility-services][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning/healthcare][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning/office][https://www.issworld.com/services/commercial-cleaning/production][https://www.issworld.com/services/technical][https://www.issworld.com/services/food-catering][https://www.issworld.com/services/workplace][https://www.issworld.com/integrated-facility-services]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T14:38:52.179325Z" }, { "type": "GEOGRAPHY", "text": "ISS reports revenue across Northern Europe, Central & Southern Europe, Asia & Pacific, the Americas, and Other countries. In FY2025, revenue was DKK 32.286bn, DKK 29.288bn, DKK 14.572bn, DKK 7.734bn, and DKK 0.872bn, respectively—approximately 38.1%, 34.6%, 17.2%, 9.1%, and 1.0% of the DKK 84.752bn total across those regions. [T5631014][T3586364]\n\nSubsidiary disclosures identify operations in countries including Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and Türkiye in Europe; Chile, Mexico, the US and Canada in the Americas; and Australia and New Zealand in Asia-Pacific. These are examples, not a complete country list. [T9638288][T5690601][T10315341] ISS’s Switzerland company page says the Group operated in 32 countries in 2025. [https://www.ch.issworld.com/en-ch/about-us/our-company]\n\nISS’s current global-offices directory lists 38 office locations. [https://www.issworld.com/global-offices] The FY2025 annual report reports more than 325,000 employees, but does not provide a geographic employee breakdown in the cited information. [P78221929]\n[T5631014][T3586364][T9638288][T5690601][T10315341][P78221929][https://www.ch.issworld.com/en-ch/about-us/our-company][https://www.issworld.com/global-offices][https://www.ch.issworld.com/en-ch/about-us/our-company][https://www.issworld.com/global-offices]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T14:38:52.179325Z" }, { "type": "SEGMENTS", "text": "ISS reports five geographic operating segments. In H1 2026, revenue was Northern Europe DKK 16,729 million (about 37.4% of group revenue); Central & Southern Europe DKK 16,186 million (36.2%); Asia & Pacific DKK 7,550 million (16.9%); Americas DKK 3,820 million (8.5%); and Other countries DKK 448 million (1.0%). The percentages use consolidated revenue of DKK 44,702 million as the denominator; DKK 31 million of unallocated items and intercompany eliminations account for the difference between regional totals and consolidated revenue. The geographic segments group countries by region; “Other countries” covers global managed-services countries without a full country-based support structure. [T17925466][P155439117]\n\nISS also discloses revenue by core service, a service-category breakdown rather than its operating-segment structure. For H1 2026, Cleaning contributed DKK 18,954 million (about 42.4% of revenue), Technical DKK 10,705 million (23.9%), Food DKK 6,560 million (14.7%), and Other DKK 8,483 million (19.0%). [T17925467]\n[T17925466][P155439117][T17925467]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T14:38:52.179325Z" }, { "type": "HISTORY", "text": "ISS was founded in Copenhagen in 1901 as a night-watch service. It expanded into cleaning in 1934 and adopted the name International Service System in 1968 as it grew beyond Denmark. [https://www.issworld.com/about-us/celebrating-125-years-of-iss]\n\nA major expansion came in 1999 with the acquisition of European cleaning and specialist-services provider Abilis. In 2005 ISS was taken private and delisted; around this period, its create2005 strategy began shifting the business from a mainly cleaning company toward integrated facility services. ISS returned to public markets in Copenhagen in 2014. [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A31999M1572][https://inv.issworld.com/static-files/2b4dc915-8562-4a31-98b8-186f590a845c][https://www.issworld.com/investors/financial-reports]\n\nISS acquired U.S. food-services company Guckenheimer in 2017, and launched its OneISS strategy and operating model in 2020. In 2023, Kasper Fangel succeeded Jacob Aarup-Andersen as Group CEO. In 2025, ISS added Garbialdi in Spain and Franye Group in Austria through acquisitions that broadened its cleaning and technical-services operations. 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