Pest Management Professional, September 2013
ADVERTORIAL Why I sold to Terminix Brent Boles President of Schendel Pest Services Q A with Brent Boles How was your experience selling to Terminix We looked at several strategic buyers in our market I was most comfortable with Terminix They truly saw the value in Schendel Pest Services They werent just buying revenue they were buying our culture and our employees and they wanted me to stay on The Terminix team truly wanted to take advantage of some of the virtues of Schendel and help us take advantage of some of the strengths they brought to the table There are key employees that Terminix really felt could be of value not to just the Schendel company but on a larger scale with the Terminix company What were your top concerns when thinking of selling First after being with the company for 20 years my coworkers became my friends So I wanted this change to be a positive change For me to sell the business I wanted my coworkers to have better SCHENDEL PEST SERVICES Founded in 1947 10 locations in Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas Arizona and Texas Commercial Industrial Residential Annual revenue in excess of 12 million Sold to Terminix August 2012 opportunities And be sure the future of Schendel is protected Second I needed to know that the last 20 years of work was going to be valued And third I needed to feel like I could work with and for the company that acquired us I wanted to be a part of that transition and feel like I was respected Was it a smooth transition Far better than I could have expected Literally everything that I was told has happened I was impressed by the amount of transparency and integrity even today What are the key benefits so far of working with Terminix It definitely helps to have the ServiceMaster name behind recruiting and maintaining our employees Individuals will tell us the reason they responded to our ad is that were able to promote our ServiceMaster benefits M2 September 2013 Pest Management Professional www mypmp net
You must have JavaScript enabled to view digital editions.
