1973-1983

ISS under fire

ISS continued its expansion during the 1970s with grand visions and a strong faith in the future. New companies were started up all over the world. Long before anyone else, Poul Andreassen began to apply the latest management theories to the multinational corporation.

In the Nordic countries, women activists went into action against the wages and working conditions of cleaning workers. Meanwhile, the oil crisis of the early 1970s slowed growth throughout the Western world.

  
During the 1970s, many protests were aimed directly at ISS as Denmark's largest cleaning company.