CLECE S.A.

What CLECE S.A. does

CLECE S.A. is a privately held Spanish multiservice company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Madrid, providing integrated facility and social services across Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. The company delivers a broad portfolio across cleaning, maintenance, security, environmental services, airport auxiliary services, educational services, social catering, and social services (including teleassistance, home assistance, juvenile and elderly residential care, and day centers) through 90,780+ professionals and 22+ regional offices. Its customer base is dominated by public administration buyers contracting via tender, supplemented by private-sector corporate clients in healthcare, sports, commercial real estate, and airports.

CLECE monetizes almost exclusively through professional-services contracts (B2G and B2B), with pricing tailored per scope and volume and no publicly disclosed rates. Go-to-market is sales-led and tender-driven, supported by a network of regional offices, a free customer-service phone line, chat, email, and an online contact form. The company combines a labor-intensive service delivery model with proprietary and partner technology, operating the in-house CleceLab R&D unit that produces solutions including the Essence home habit monitoring system, the Nuka social robot for elderly neurological care, voice assistants (Alexa), VR glasses, SafeFamily GPS watches, indoor geolocation (via the Clece Seguridad subsidiary), UV-C disinfection robots, autonomous floor scrubbers, drone-based façade cleaning, ozone cleaning systems, and on-site generation of ecological disinfectants. Academic partnerships with Spanish universities and research centers (Pablo de Olavide, Carlos III, Jaén, Málaga, Politécnica de Valencia, Nebrija, CRE Alzheimer reference center, Fundación Edad&Vida) underpin product development.

The company derives competitive advantage from scale (one of Spain's largest employers), an extensive certification portfolio (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, 50001, 37001, 20400, 560001, UNE 19601, UNE 19603, IQNET SR10, ENS HIGH/MEDIUM, EFR 1000-1, UNE 158401, carbon footprint registration) that materially de-risks public tender eligibility, and a structural labor-inclusion model in which more than 10% of the workforce comes from vulnerable groups via collaborations with 600+ social organizations, directly addressing the social clauses embedded in Spanish and EU public procurement.

Name

CLECE S.A.

Legal name

CLECE, S.A.

Website

https://clece.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

CLECE S.A. is a privately held Spanish multiservice company providing integrated facility, social, cleaning, maintenance, security, environmental, airport, educational, and catering services to public administration and private clients across Spain, Portugal, and the UK, employing over 90,000 professionals and developing proprietary care and cleaning technology through its in-house CleceLab R&D unit.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Facility Services and Social Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (72231)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

General Commercial Janitorial (Recurring Contract Cleaning) (BPABABAA)

Keywords

• Facility services
• Cleaning services
• Social services
• Maintenance services
• Security services

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices23 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Social Services: Provision of social care services including integrated management of juvenile centres, residences and day centres, home assistance services (SAD), teleassistance, and supervised housing — primarily contracted by public administration.
2. Cleaning Services: Interior cleaning, logistics, road cleaning, industrial DDD cleaning, VIP room management, customer service, and comprehensive facility maintenance — serving healthcare, commercial, and public-sector clients.
3. Maintenance Services: Comprehensive conservation and facility maintenance management, including energy services, sport facility management.
4. Security Services: Security and surveillance services for facilities and infrastructure.
5. Environmental Services: Environmental management services, waste collection, and public lighting operations.
6. Airport Auxiliary Services: Auxiliary services at airports including passenger assistance and logistics.
7. Educational Services: Management of childcare centres and school transportation services.
8. Catering Services: Social catering services for care facilities and public institutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

CLECE S.A. is a Spanish multiservice company providing integrated facility management, social services, and auxiliary support services. The company delivers cleaning, maintenance, security, environmental, airport, educational, social catering, and social care services to public sector clients (municipalities, regional and national government) and private enterprises across Spain.

Product overview

CLECE S.A. is a multiservice company with over 30 years of experience providing essential services to public and private clients in Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. The company operates as a unified platform offering integrated services across multiple sectors including Social Services (with teleassistance and home care), Cleaning (with UVC and autonomous equipment), Maintenance, Security (with proprietary indoor geolocation), Environmental Services, Airport Services, Auxiliary Services, Educational Services, and Social Catering. The portfolio is complemented by technology-enabled solutions including the Nuka social robot for elderly cognitive care, Xenex UV-C disinfection robots, voice assistants (Alexa), Essence home monitoring, and SafeFamily GPS watches. Innovation is driven through CleceLab, while social initiatives are supported via the Corazón y Manos NGO. The company employs over 90,000 professionals and formalizes more than 100,000 contracts annually.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CleceLab: Specialized unit for development of innovation projects at the forefront of sector trends
• Clece Match
• Nuka
• Essence

Products and services

• Cleaning Services
• Maintenance Services
• Security Services
• Social Services (Servicios Sociales)
• Environmental Services (Servicios Medioambientales)
• Airport Services (Servicios Aeroportuarios)
• Educational Services (Servicios Educativos)
• Social Catering (Restauración Social)
• Auxiliary Services (Servicios Auxiliares)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 10% of workforce from vulnerable populations
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• 600+ Social Organizations in SpaincoreOthersClece collaborates with more than 600 social organizations throughout Spain for the labour intermediation and integration of people from vulnerable groups (women who have experienced gender-based violence, people with disabilities, people at risk of social exclusion). These partnerships are central to Clece's social sustainability mission and enable the company to meet public procurement social clauses.
• National and Regional Public AdministrationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClece operates under service agreements and public contracts with municipal, regional, and national government bodies across Spain, Portugal, and the UK. These agreements cover social services, cleaning, maintenance, security, environmental, educational, and catering services. Clece also collaborates with public administrations on social inclusion programmes and pilot projects.
• Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative research on the FRI-HOUSING project to identify 'friendly' housing for people with intellectual or cognitive disabilities, aiming to facilitate residential independence and full social inclusion.
• Universidad Carlos IIIminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on a healthy aging data analysis project to promote healthy aging, adapt individual care programmes for elderly people, and extend life expectancy.
• Universidad de JaénminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerScientific and technical research collaboration on the study 'Violence in Elderly People', focused particularly on women users of Home Assistance Services (SAD).
• Universidad de MálagaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipation in the 'Vivir en Casa' (Live at Home) project, a collaborative initiative with the Andalusian Ministry for Inclusion, Youth, Family and Equality, aimed at transforming the home care model through the latest technological advances.
• Universidad Politécnica de ValenciaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on detecting cases of unwanted loneliness among elderly people and measuring the impact of home assistance services on its mitigation.
• Universidad NebrijaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipation in a European project on digitization and elderly people, focused on actions to eliminate the digital divide in this population segment.
• Centro de Referencia Estatal de Atención a personas con enfermedad de Alzheimer y otras demencias (CREA) – ImsersominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with the State Reference Centre for Alzheimer's and other dementias to analyze the impact of Nuka social robot interventions on elderly people with cognitive impairment living in residential care.
• Fundación Edad&VidaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on data analysis to promote healthy aging and adapt individual care programmes for elderly people.
• Proyecto HUCI (Humanizando los Cuidados Intensivos)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWith the backing of the HUCI Project, Clece defined the first manual of best practices for companies providing Home Assistance Services (SAD) to guarantee humanized care for users, families, and sector professionals.
• CleceLabcoreTechnology or IntegrationCleceLab is an internal specialized unit within CLECE for the development of technological and social innovation projects. It serves as the company's primary R&D engine, continuously monitoring the latest trends and incorporating them into Clece's own processes and client-facing service solutions.
• Fundación MásfamiliaminorOthersClece holds the EFR (Family-Responsible Company) certification awarded by Fundación Másfamilia, recognizing the company's work-life balance measures and flexibility policies for its workforce.
• Corazón y Manos AssociationminorOthersA non-profit association created at the initiative of Clece's own workforce, Corazón y Manos carries out solidarity projects to help people going through difficult situations, covering needs that allow them to move forward. Declared of Public Utility by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior.
• Spanish UN Global Compact NetworkminorOthersClece is a member of the Spanish UN Global Compact Network, formally committing to the 10 principles of the initiative, which promote corporate social responsibility and sustainable development worldwide.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• ABM Industries: US-based facility services provider offering janitorial, parking, HVAC, lighting, and integrated facility solutions across North America and select international markets. Comparable integrated facility services model with cleaning as the largest service line, mirroring CLECE's portfolio composition.
• Compass Group: UK-headquartered global food services and support services conglomerate operating across contract catering, facility services, and workplace solutions. Broader portfolio than CLECE but overlaps in catering and integrated facility management, and competes in large multi-country tenders.
• Aramark: US-based global facility services, food services, and uniform provider serving clients across education, healthcare, business, and sports/entertainment. Comparable multi-service model and institutional client focus, though concentrated more in North America than CLECE's European footprint.

Direct peers

• ISS A/S: Global facility services leader headquartered in Denmark offering cleaning, maintenance, security, catering, and integrated facility services across 30+ countries. Direct competitor in the European integrated facility services market where CLECE operates, with comparable multi-service model and public/private sector client mix.
• Eulen Group: Spanish family-owned facility services company providing cleaning, security, maintenance, social services, and auxiliary services across Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Most direct head-to-head competitor to CLECE in the Iberian market with similar multi-service model and public administration focus.
• Ferrovial Servicios: Spanish infrastructure conglomerate's facility services division offering cleaning, maintenance, environmental services, and energy management. Major competitor in Spanish public tenders with overlapping service portfolio and comparable scale in facility services delivery.
• Acciona Servicios: Spanish infrastructure company's services arm providing facility management, cleaning, environmental services, and social services across Spain and international markets. Direct competitor in Iberian public procurement with similar multi-service, ESG-positioned profile to CLECE.
• Sodexo: French multinational facility management and food services giant serving corporate, healthcare, education, and government clients globally. Overlaps directly with CLECE's cleaning, maintenance, catering, and social services portfolio, and competes in Iberian, UK, and broader European tenders.
• Serco Group: UK-based public services outsourcer operating in facility management, healthcare, justice, and social services across UK, Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Comparable business model of large-scale government contract delivery with significant workforce and social services overlap in the UK market where CLECE operates.

Regional players

• Grupo Sacyr Servicios: Spanish infrastructure and services group with facility management, cleaning, and environmental services operations, primarily in Spain and Latin America. Overlaps with CLECE in Spanish public administration tenders and shares similar multi-service delivery model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance15 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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