Abstract:

The business environment is undergoing various changes that encourage SMEs to adapt and to create a competitive environment. Currently, facility management is rated as a new management approach that manages auxiliary and service business processes to gain more space for core business, cost savings and many other benefits. These potential effects can be exploited in all sectors of the national economy, including industrial enterprises and also wood and forestry complex enterprises specification. On the other hand, the main of facility management´s services is complemented by businesses that provide these types of services. The aim of this article is to provide the basis for the creation of an information base explaining the essence of facility management and its area of ​​interest and forms of possible implementation into management practice. Also to present the results of the pre-research on the current range of portfolio offerings offered by the facility services and the interest in their use in the Slovak business environment. As part of our research, we have been able to verify the hypothesis that most facility service providers in the Slovak business environment offer less than 6 types of services in the context of the complexity of their portfolio. The other hypothesis about correlation and relationship in the capital structure, the duration of the facility service providers and the customers' interest in these services could not be verified