ServiceMaster

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ServiceMaster Brands
Company type Private
Industry Service
FoundedSeptember 7, 1929 (1929-09-07)
in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
FounderMarion E. Wade
Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Number of locations
2,000+ [1]
Key people
Greg Weller (CEO) [1]
Anand Naimpally (CFO)
Revenue$2.59 billion (2015)
Owner Roark Capital Group
Number of employees
13,000 (2015)
Website servicemaster.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]

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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 ] In 2007, the company had approximately 5,500 locations. [4]

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. [5] Its movement into business services makes it a large outsourcing company. [6]

In the 1980s, the company acquired several branch and franchise-based service companies including Terminix, TruGreen, Merry Maids, and American Home Shield. [7] [ 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. [8] 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. [9] Robert J. Gillette was appointed chief executive officer in June 2013. [10]

As of January 1, 2014, TruGreen is no longer a brand of ServiceMaster, having instead become a separate privately held company. TruGreen acquired Scotts Lawn Service in 2016.[ citation needed ]

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.

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. [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. [14]

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

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