Wimbledon-based Malsar Kest has won an accolade for outstanding service at the 1998 Distributor Service Excellence Awards.

Malsar Kest - established in 1975 - has sites in Wimbledon and Gillingham - and scooped the award as a result of a customers' poll which quizzed them on service areas including order efficiency, call return time, helpfulness, product knowledge and delivery.

The awards, sponsored by Kimberly-Clark and Cleaning and Hygiene Today magazine, aim to raise awareness of service levels within the cleaning and hygiene industry.

Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000.Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.