Portfolio by Churchill and Pareto FM have been appointed by Hearst UK to provide soft and hard services to its London portfolio. 

The terms of the deal will see Portfolio by Churchill deliver daily office cleaning, deep cleans, and event management, whilst Pareto will deliver all associated mechanical, electrical and fabric-related planned and reactive maintenance as well as project management services. 

The deal includes a number of service solutions including a workplace hygiene programme – PRISM and COVID-19 mitigation services from Portfolio, and Pareto expanding its women in engineering programme with an electrical apprenticeship.

Hearst UK publishes 25 brands including ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Esquire. Its brands reach over one in three UK women and one in four UK men every month, enabling consumers to get more out of life and their trusted content engages them wherever they are. Hearst UK sells over four million magazines a month and reaches more than 20m UK digital unique users. 

Sophie Wilkinson, Head of Operations and PMO, Hearst UK: “Since moving to Leicester Square in 2018, we have been keen to align our service partners to our new way of working; being able to deliver high cleaning and maintenance standards, whilst also operating as efficiently and effectively as possible. In Portfolio and Pareto we found two service partners that completely understood our ethos, high standards and approach to inclusivity and were able to demonstrate that we could create a true partnership.”