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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....
...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....
...Just a few months ago US conglomerate Rollins, through Orkin, bought Bay-Valley Pest Control. ServiceMaster bought two pest control companies just last month....
...Rentokil is the third-biggest player in the pest control business with $1.2bn global revenues in that segment....
...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....
...The acquisition is in line with the group’s strategy, outlined last November, to target pest control firms in North America, the world’s largest pest control market, as well as in Latin America and the Middle...
...According to the US Pest Control centre, the market for pest control in Mexico is growing at 10 per cent a year, compared with 5 per cent for the rest of the US....
...“Miss National Pest and Termite Control Unit”, says the sash across the bust of one young princess. All over the Caribbean, carnival queens are an institution and Dominica is no exception....
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