A Clean Commitment
Rose Building Maintenance Celebrates 40 Years By Nerissa McNaughton with photos by Rebecca Lippiatt
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ince 1982, Rose Building Maintenance Ltd. has provided exemplary contract cleaning services to a wide cross section of businesses and institutions including universities, manufacturing and medical sectors, as well as groceries and construction clean ups. During COVID-19, they are a trusted, experienced team offering deep sanitation, disinfecting and electrostatic cleaning. With young children in tow, Sarwan and Balbir Gill moved from Victoria to Alberta. They both found work cleaning Woodward’s department stores, but they desired more flexibility in their schedules and the ability to clean to their highest standards. So, the couple launched their own cleaning business. “Sarwan approached an accountant in the Professional Building in St. Albert to register the company and the
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receptionist advised that ‘Alberta is Wild Rose Country.’ So, Sarwan took the ‘rose’ and registered the company as Rose Building Maintenance Ltd.,” says Balbir. But things didn’t stop there. “The receptionist told him the Professional Building was looking for janitors and put him in touch with the person in charge. Rose Building Maintenance got the cleaning contract, and the Professional Building still remains a client today. We also secured office space in the building and continue from there as the base of our operations.” Within the next year (1983) Rose Building Maintenance secured major contracts with Canada Post (through Edmonton’s post office on 97th Street), Wood Wyant and the Edmonton International Airport. What started with a company of two is now a thriving corporation with 125 on staff.