BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: ABM
- activity-based management
Wiktionary Definition for: ABM
- Anti-ballistic missile.
- Automated bank machine.
- (''Business Management'') Activity-based management.
- Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahme ''f''
Additional Resources
- Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 5, the ABM Framework
- The fourth part of this paper overviewed how ABM fits into a number of overarching frameworks of measurement and improvement. The sixth part of this paper will show how ABM is used in a 'real life' example to illustrate how ABM handles costs to assign them to activities then onwards...
- White papers
- ABM Industries, Inc. Awarded Contracts with Ford Motor Company
- SAN FRANCISCO -- ABM Facility Services and ABM Janitorial Services, operating units of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), have been awarded contracts with Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F). The contracts cover facility maintenance solutions for Ford buildings in Dearborn, Michigan, which encompass several million square feet and include janitorial and engineering services...
- Research articles 2005-02-14
- ABM Industries Incorporated Authorizes Buyback of up to Two Million Shares of Company Stock
- SAN FRANCISCO -- First graph, first sentence of release dated Dec. 12, 2006 should read: The Board of Directors of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) authorized the repurchase of up to two million shares of ABM's outstanding common stock at any time through October 31, 2007 (sted The Board of Directors...
- Research articles 2006-12-13
- ABM Industries Incorporated Announces Resolution of World Trade Center Insurance Litigation; ABM to Receive $80.0 Million for Business Interruption Insurance Claims
- SAN FRANCISCO -- ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) has settled its World Trade Center business interruption insurance coverage litigation with Zurich American Insurance Company for $80 million. This payment, which will be received in September 2006, less legal and other expenses associated with the claim, will increase ABM's net income in...
- Research articles 2006-08-15
- ABM Janitorial Services Receives Alcon Laboratories Supplier Excellence Award
- SAN FRANCISCO -- ABM Janitorial Services, an operating unit of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), was recently presented with the Alcon Laboratories Supplier Excellence Award for 2004. ABM was honored for more than 10 years of dedicated janitorial service for AlconTM's Fort Worth campus buildings. "As a leader in the...
- Research articles 2004-12-06
- Insider Buying at ABM Industries
- The Correct Call submits: ABM Industries Inc. ABM is our insider buying stock of the week. ABM Industries Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides janitorial, parking, security, and engineering services for commercial, industrial, institutional, and retail facilities primarily in the United States. It operates in four segments: Janitorial, Parking, Security, and...
- External links 2009-07-20
- Clean Up with ABM Industries
- Paul Price submits: ABM Industries Incorporated ABM is the largest publicly traded facility services contractor in the United States. ABM and its subsidiaries provide janitorial, parking, security and engineering services for commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in cities throughout the United States. About 5% of revenues come from Canadian...
- External links 2009-10-16
- ABM Turns to IBM for Global IT Infrastructure and Transformation
- ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE: ABM), a leading building services company, has signed a 7-year, over US$100 million strategic outsourcing agreement with IBM. IBM (NYSE: IBM) will provide a broad range of services, including managing ABM's IT infrastructure and the development of innovative new services to better serve ABM's employees...
- Research articles 2006-10-27
- ABM Industries Incorporated Names Christopher Bouvier Vice President
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The board of directors of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) has promoted Christopher Bouvier, Esq., 41, to serve as Vice President, Deputy General Counsel of ABM and counsel for ABM Janitorial Services.
- Research articles 2004-06-25
- ABM Industries Incorporated Appoints Sarah Hlavinka McConnell General Counsel
- NEW YORK -- ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) announced today that Sarah Hlavinka McConnell has been appointed as the company's general counsel upon the retirement of Linda Auwers on May 15, 2008. McConnell joined ABM last year as senior vice president and deputy general counsel, bringing 19 years of experience as...
- Research articles 2008-05-08
- ABM Industries Incorporated Authorizes Buyback of up to Two Million Shares of Company Stock
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The Board of Directors of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) authorized the repurchase of up to two million shares of ABM's outstanding common stock at any time through October 31, 2006. The authorized purchases would at most approximate four percent of the 49.3 million shares of ABM common...
- Research articles 2006-03-29
- ABM Industries, Inc. Recognized by InformationWeek for Innovative Business-Technology Practices
- SAN FRANCISCO -- ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), one of the nation's largest facility service contractors, received recognition for its innovative use of technology on InformationWeek's 2004 list of top 500 companies. ABM ranked 12th in the annual study that evaluated the nation's most innovative companies with the best business-technology strategies,...
- Research articles 2004-10-12
- ABM Security Services Receives USPS Supplier Performance Award
- LOS ANGELES -- ABM Security Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded the United States Postal Service USPS 2007 Supplier Performance Award. The annual awards recognize leading companies that have demonstrated outstanding supply chain management performance and positive relationships with USPS. "We are deeply...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- ABM Janitorial Services Awarded Spieker Properties Contract Approved Business Editors
- LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--May 4, 2001 ABM Janitorial Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar janitorial contract with Spieker Properties (NYSE:SPK). The contract covers janitorial service at four buildings in the Los Angeles area. ABM Janitorial will provide around-the-clock cleaning service...
- Research articles 2001-05-04
- ABM Janitorial Services Awarded Contract Renewal for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
- Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 27, 2002 ABM Janitorial Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract renewal for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport MSP. The scope of ABM's on-airport operations includes comprehensive janitorial services, including glass cleaning, at the...
- Research articles 2002-11-27
- ABM Engineering Provides Service for U.S. General Services Administration
- Business Editors LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 18, 2003 ABM Engineering Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with the Corporate Source, an agent of the U.S. General Services Administration GSA. ABM will provide engineering and operational services for the...
- Research articles 2003-02-18
- WG ABM venture seeking second facility.(WG ABM Inc expand in to Toronto)
- Byline: Angie DeRosa A 1-year-old joint venture, WG ABM Inc. of Brampton, Ontario, is looking to expand in the Toronto area. The injection molder and custom packager is a venture between WG Pro-Manufacturing Inc. and ABM Italia SpA of Treviso, Italy. The...
- Research articles 2006-06-12
- ABM Industries Family of Services Awarded Gap Inc. Contracts
- Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE March 7, 2001-The ABM Engineering, ABM Janitorial and Ampco System Parking subsidiaries of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), have been awarded multi-year, multi-million dollar service contracts with Gap Inc. (NYSE:GPS). The contracts are for Gap Inc.s new 540,000 square foot world headquarters on the...
- Research articles 2001-03-07
- ABM Engineering Services Contracts With Trammell Crow Company
- Business Editors LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 18, 2002 ABM Engineering Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded two service contracts with Trammell Crow Company (NYSE:TCC). The contracts are for on-site operating engineers at two class-A commercial office properties located in Century City and Santa...
- Research articles 2002-11-18
- ABM Industries Acquires Janitorial Services Operations of Horizon National Commercial Services, LLC
- Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 4, 2003 ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) has acquired the commercial self-performed janitorial cleaning operations of Horizon National Commercial Services, LLC, a provider of janitorial services based in Red Bank, New Jersey. Assets acquired by ABM include key accounts in the eastern, mid-western and...
- Research articles 2003-02-04
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