ServiceMaster

ServiceMaster Brands
Company typePrivate
IndustryService
FoundedSeptember 7, 1929 (1929-09-07)
in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
FounderMarion E. Wade
HeadquartersAtlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Number of locations
2,000+[1]
Key people
Greg Weller (CEO)[1]
Anand Naimpally (CFO)
Revenue$2.59 billion (2015)
OwnerRoark Capital Group
Number of employees
13,000 (2015)
Websiteservicemaster.com

ServiceMaster Brands is an American privately held company owned by Roark Capital Group that provides residential and commercial services.[2] Its headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia, after moving there in 2020 from Memphis, Tennessee.[3]

Brands operated by ServiceMaster include ServiceMaster Clean, ServiceMaster Restore, Merry Maids, Two Men and a Truck, Indoor Science and Aftermath Services. The core services of the company are disaster response and restoration, janitorial services, professional home cleaning and Bio Hazard Cleaning.

ServiceMaster has more than 7,000 company-owned and franchise locations around the world. It has 13,000 corporate employees and a franchise network that independently employs over 33,000 additional people.[citation needed]

History

ServiceMaster was founded in 1929 by Marion E. Wade, a minor league baseball player, as a moth-proofing company in Chicago, Illinois. It was incorporated in 1947 and expanded to franchised carpet cleaning in 1952.[4] Its movement into business services makes it a large outsourcing company.[5]

In the 1980s, the company acquired several branch and franchise-based service companies including Terminix, TruGreen, Merry Maids, and American Home Shield.[6][citation needed] In 2001, ServiceMaster divested its management services businesses to focus more on its residential and commercial business.[citation needed][clarification needed]

A group of equity sponsors led by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) acquired ServiceMaster in July 2007 and took the company private.[7] In the same year, the company moved its headquarters from Downers Grove, Ill., to Memphis, Tenn.

In 2011, Hank Mullany, former executive vice president of Walmart U.S. and president of northern U.S. Walmart, was appointed as CEO for all ServiceMaster brands.[8] Robert J. Gillette was appointed chief executive officer in June 2013.[9]

As of January 1, 2014, TruGreen is no longer a brand of ServiceMaster, having instead become a separate privately held company.[10]

ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc., then the parent of ServiceMaster Brands, announced on June 25, 2014, that it had priced an initial public offering of 35,900,000 shares of common stock at $17.00 per share.[11] The shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 25, 2014, under the ticker symbol SERV. The company continues to be majority-owned by private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, StepStone Group and Ridgemont Equity Partners, and JPMorgan Chase Funding.[citation needed]

ServiceMaster moved its global headquarters from East Memphis to Peabody Place in Downtown Memphis in June 2018.[12]

Nikhil Varty was appointed chief executive officer in July 2017. Varty stepped down in 2020.[13]

On July 26, 2017, ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. announced a plan to spin off its American Home Shield business from its Terminix and Franchise Services Group into a separate publicly-traded company.[14]

In 2020, Naren Gursahaney was appointed as chief executive officer.[13]

In October 2020, Roark Capital Group purchased ServiceMaster Brands.[2]

In August 2021, ServiceMaster Brands purchased Two Men and a Truck, a family-owned moving franchise.[15]

In April 2022, ServiceMaster Brands purchased Aftermath Services, a privately owned trauma & biohazard cleanup company.

Brands

  • ServiceMaster Clean (established 1952): Janitorial and carpet cleaning
  • Terminix (founded 1927, acquired 1986, separation 2020): pest control; divested from Terminix Global holdings October 2020
  • Merry Maids (acquired 1988): maid services
  • American Home Shield (acquired 1989); spun off in 2018
  • Furniture Medic (acquired 1996): furniture repair
  • Rescue Industries and American Residential Services, now known as ARS/Rescue Rooter: RI acquired in 1998; ARS acquired and merged with RI 1999; sold 2006
  • ServiceMaster Restore (established 2013): disaster restoration
  • AmeriSpec (acquired 2007): home inspection
  • Two Men and a Truck (acquired 2021)
  • Aftermath Services (established 1996, acquired 2022): trauma & biohazard cleaning
  • Indoor Science (acquired 2022)


Amerispec is a franchisor which sells and supports residential and commercial inspection services franchisees throughout the United States and Canada.[16][17][18] The company's main services are general home inspection, relocation inspections and commercial property inspections. AmeriSpec has around 300 independently owned and operated franchises in the United States and Canada.[19] In January 2007, after previously being a wholly owned subsidiary of American Home Shield, the company was sold to the ServiceMaster Holding Company and was placed under the leadership of the other ServiceMaster Brands.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b "About us". ServiceMaster. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  2. ^ a b "Roark Capital Acquires ServiceMaster Brands". www.businesswire.com. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  3. ^ "The ServiceMaster Company Investor Relations". Corporate-ir.net. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  4. ^ "History". ServiceMaster. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  5. ^ "ServiceMaster". Corporate.servicemaster.com. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
  6. ^ "SERVICEMASTER SWEEPS UP HOUSECLEANING SERVICE". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
  7. ^ Orol, R.D. (2008). Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World. Wiley. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-470-19891-9. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  8. ^ Dries, Bill (November 4, 2017). "Mullany Outlines Goals For ServiceMaster Brands". Memphis Daily News. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  9. ^ ServiceMaster (June 18, 2013). "ServiceMaster Appoints Robert J. Gillette As New Chief Executive Officer". PRWeb. Archived from the original on July 2, 2018. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  10. ^ "ServiceMaster slates TruGreen separation | Landscape Management". 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  11. ^ "ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. Completes Its Initial Public Offering". ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc.
  12. ^ "ServiceMaster to Relocate Headquarters to Downtown Memphis". mediacenter.servicemaster.com.
  13. ^ a b "Nik Varty Steps Down as ServiceMaster CEO; New Terminix Residential President Named". pctonline.com. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  14. ^ "BRIEF-Servicemaster announces intention to spin off American Home Shield". Reuters. 2017-07-26. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  15. ^ Lyons, Craig. "Family-owned Two Men and a Truck, founded and headquartered in Lansing, sold to Atlanta firm". Lansing State Journal. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  16. ^ Plunkett, J.W. (2007). Plunkett's Real Estate & Construction Industry Almanac 2007: Real Estate & Construction Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Compani. Plunkett's Real Estate & Construction Industry Almanac. Plunkett Research Limited. p. 479. ISBN 978-1-59392-071-5. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  17. ^ SMU Law Review: A Publication of Southern Methodist University School of Law. Southern Methodist University School of Law. 2002. pp. 1100, 1108–1109. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  18. ^ Klarfeld, P.J. (2003). Covenants Against Competition in Franchise Agreements. Hein's ABA Archive Microfiche Collection. Forum on Franchising, American Bar Association. p. 415. ISBN 978-1-59031-114-1. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  19. ^ Group, T.P.L.; Arden, L. (2010). 220 Best Franchises to Buy: The Essential Sourcebook for Evaluating the Best Franchise Opportunities. Crown Publishing Group. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-307-43211-7. Retrieved November 5, 2017. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  20. ^ "ServiceMaster is one of area's largest private employers". archive.commercialappeal.com. April 30, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2017.

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