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...Take for instance Rollins, the Atlanta, USA-based pest control company (no relation to ATL throwback Rollin’)....
...As its name suggests, Terminix’s main business line is termite control....
...Northern regions of the US were experiencing termites in places they had not been previously reported, according to Orkin, a subsidiary of US pest control group Rollins....
...Pest control giant Rentokil has raised its revenue forecasts, as it squeezes more cost savings from its mega acquisition of rival Terminix....
...Fewer US house sales mean a reduction in termite control spending. Rentokil features in Lex’s list of favoured low-profile, steadily growing UK compounders....
...These include Bioceres, which focuses on crop productivity and helping the farming industry become carbon neutral, Corteva, which offers pest control solutions to farmers that are better for biodiversity...
...If you include water purification and pest control giant Ecolab as kinda in the same business (getting rid of unwanted stuff, whether germs, garbage or bedbugs) then the sector accounts for 52.5 per cent...
...The brand was sold on to SC Johnson, the Wisconsin-based company that also owns cleaning, pest control and storage brands Mr Muscle, Raid and Ziploc, in 2011....
...Terminix, which is the market leader in termite control in North America, had $2bn of revenues in 2020, mostly from the US....
...Rentokil, the UK’s biggest terminator of termites and other pests, is in the same game....
...Global warming threatens to intensify the damage to crops caused by drought, floods, typhoons and pests....
...Just a few months ago US conglomerate Rollins, through Orkin, bought Bay-Valley Pest Control. ServiceMaster bought two pest control companies just last month....
...The real bookworms, however, have made their nest at the top of the fast-growing US pest control company....
...The last lot of the evening, Sotheby’s described the work ahead of the sale as “authenticated by Pest Control”, the handling services organisation that acts on Banksy’s behalf....
...Its note highlights that the US makes up two-thirds of Rentokil’s pest control business, which accounts for 63 per cent of group revenues....
...“The growth and margin opportunity at Rentokil remains under-appreciated by the market, led predominantly by US pest control,” it said....
...“Pest Control has visited” is stuck to the bathroom door. Abdi has been here on this council estate in Loughborough Junction for almost two years, but his things are still in bin sacks on the floor....
...The Connected Business examines some of the more unusual uses of artificial intelligence that may be coming to a home or office near you: Pest control In recent years, pest control company Rentokil Initial...
...Much of Honeywell’s acquisitions have been concentrated in its “automation and control solutions division”, which produces a range of alarms and safety systems to protect people and machinery from pests...
...pests such as fires, racked up a 13 per cent rise in sales to $3.68bn....
...Google, for example, offers a range of business services that are used by companies including Jaguar Land Rover, pest control business Rentokil Initial and UK-based fashion retailer AllSaints....
...If left unchecked the spotted wing drosophila (SWD) — an invasive soft fruit pest that has no biocontrols and limited chemical controls at present — could cost the UK fruit industry up to £120m....
...Rentokil is the third-biggest player in the pest control business with $1.2bn global revenues in that segment....
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...Rentokil Initial shares rose to a four-and-a-half-year high on Friday as strong demand for its pest control services combined with cost measures to drive pre-tax profit up 58.4 per cent....
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