Rentokil seeks to establish longstanding relationships with its clients, offering its pest control and hygiene services to customers over extended periods of time. It services are frequently provided on-site by pest control professionals who are able to resolve issues and details with clients in person. Rentokil operates a website at www. The company also publishes contact information, through which customers can get in touch with personnel trained to handle complaints and enquiries.
On its website, Rentokil also hosts a media portal, through which it publishes company updates, news releases, and images. It is additionally able to communicate directly with customers through its various social media accounts, including with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Rentokil is a commercial pest control and hygiene services company.
It is engaged in the provision of route-based services that are designed to protect people and enhance lives. The Company's services are organised under several business categories, including Pest Control, Hygiene, Workwear, and Other.
Rentokil offers a range of pest control services, ranging from rodents to flying and crawling insects, to other forms of wildlife management. The Company also provides a range of other specialist services, including plants, medical services, property care and specialist hygiene, and is engaged in the supply and maintenance of garments, such as workwear and personal protective equipment, throughout Europe.
Rentokil works closely with a range of partners around the world to ensure that it is able to provide effective and reliable services. Rentokil has a number of partnership in place.
Rentokil incurs costs in relation to the development of its solutions and intellectual properties, the procurement of supplies and equipment, the procurement of third party services, the management of its partnerships, the payment of salaries and benefits to its personnel, the operation and maintenance of vehicles — including fuel costs, the development and maintenance of its IT and communications infrastructure, and the operation of its office locations — including occupancy and utility costs.
In , Rentokil recorded total annual operating expenses of GBP 2. Rentokil generates revenue through the provision of pest control and hygiene services.
The Company primarily derives revenue under service contracts agreed directly with clients on a case-by-case basis.
The Company also derives a portion of its revenue under sales contracts for its workwear products. In , Rentokil generated annual revenue of GBP 2. Townsend began his career working in the audit and corporate finance divisions of professional services firm Ernst and Young.
He is responsible for overseeing the operations of the Company across markets in Europe. Not yet a member? Sign Up. Find your dream job. Rentokil signed a year contract with the City Fathers of Hamelin — the first since a certain Pied Piper had been called in !
Shortly after WW2 Reykjavik found itself overrun with rats. Out of City properties, were infested with brown rats and the docks were teaming with black rats. Rentokil was called in to deal with the problem and within a few weeks the rats were eradicated.
Dr Norman Hickin joined Rentokil Limited as an entomologist. Demand for pest control services began extending beyond rodent control to insect control. British Ratin made its first acquisition, Chelsea Insecticides Ltd. The company was registered in as Rentokil Limited due to trade name objections preventing the name 'Entokill'. Harold Maxwell-Lefroy started supplying bottles of woodworm fluid from a small factory in Hatton Garden, which he called 'Ento-kill fluids — an amalgam of the Greek work 'entomon' meaning insect and the English word 'kill'.
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, Professor of Entomology at Imperial College London, was asked to study ways of exterminating the beetles in Westminster Hall and in time began receiving regular orders. Danish pharmacist, Georg Neumann of Aalborg discovered a strain of bacteria lethal to rats and mice, which became known commercially as Ratin.
The first London sales office opened in Bigelow introduced a towel rental service to businesses in London. Each towel was marked with the customer's initials, which ensured that customers only received their own towels, leading to the name, 'Initial Towel Supply Company'. Contact us Careers. Protecting People. Enhancing Lives. Over years of service. Our story so far. In order to counter its slumping margins, the company, which claimed to have made more than acquisitions since the early s, began shedding a number of its noncore operations, including its plant hire, temporary staffing, and distribution operations.
Much of its acquisition interest has gone toward bolt-on purchases, including 12 businesses in OTC market. Both companies traced their roots back to the turn of the 20th century and had established themselves as leaders in their respective markets. The merged company, renamed Rentokil Initial, combined Rentokil's expertise in pest control services and its s foray into security services with BET's broader base of business services, including linen rentals, cleaning, and catering.
Rentokil's origins lay in pest control. In , Georg Neumann, a pharmacist working in Aalborg, Denmark, developed a type of bacteria that proved to be deadly for rats and mice.
Neumann dubbed his poison Ratin and set up his own company, Bakteriologisk Laboratorium Ratin, in Neumann's discovery soon caught the attention of the Sophus Berendsen company, which decided to introduce the poison to the British market as well as the other Scandinavian countries. The first U. In the s, the British arm took on greater importance and began moving toward providing pest control services, rather than simply selling the Ratin poison system. In , Petersen abandoned sales of Ratin and converted the company fully to pest control services, beginning the company's expansion throughout the United Kingdom.
World War II and the scarcity of food stocks brought a new urgency to the pest control industry, and particularly the extermination of insects. As growing numbers of its customers began requesting insect control services in addition to the company's rodent control services, British Ratin branched out, acquiring Chelsea Insecticides Ltd. This move brought British Ratin in competition with another company, Rentokil Ltd.
Rentokil had been founded in by Harold Maxwell Lefroy. As a professor of entomology at the Imperial College in London, Lefroy had been asked to find a way to eliminate a death watch beetle infestation at Westminster Hall. Lefroy, assisted by Elizabeth Eades, came up with a formula in , dubbed "Ento-Kill. The following year, Lefroy started up a business, Rentokil Ltd. Lefroy, however, was killed in a laboratory accident the following year, and the company's operations were taken over by Eades.
Rentokil began offering its own extermination services during World War II, focusing on woodworm and dry rot control. That segment was incorporated as a separate subsidiary, the unglamorously named Woodworm and Dry Rot Control Ltd. By then, British Ratin had begun expanding its insecticides division, establishing a dedicated subsidiary, Disinfestation Ltd.
At the beginning of the s, that company began preparing a move into the market for control of woodworms, launching its first treatment products in Yet it was the Rentokil name that was to carry on the company's banner. In , the company reorganized, adopted the new name of Rentokil Group Ltd.
By , all of the company's U.
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