Premier Pest Controls

Apr 15, 2021

Truly Nolen Promotes Evans to Manager Damon Evans, previously a salesperson, will manage the company’s Palm Desert, Calif., service office. TUCSON, Ariz. – Truly Nolen Pest Control announced the promotion of Damon Evans to manager of the company’s Palm Desert, Calif., service office. Evans joined Truly Nolen in February 2016 as a salesperson and has over 20 years of experience in the pest control industry. Before joining the company, he worked for Riverside County Pest Control in sales and as a termite technician. He studied entomology for one year at Texas A&M University. Some of Evans’ new responsibilities include helping the service office gain more visibility within the Palm Desert community, as well as instilling the company’s core values throughout his team. “I am most excited about being homegrown within this service office and getting to continue to work with the same team I’ve been with the last five years,” said Evans. “My favorite thing about Truly Nolen is our company’s culture, as well as the support of everyone throughout our company.” Lee Blair, Truly Nolen California district manager, said, “Damon’s two decades of pest control experience, embracing our company culture and ability to motivate others made him the easy choice for this new opportunity. I look forward to seeing how he continues to shape our Palm Desert team going forward.” U.S. Structural Pest Control Market Surpasses $9.6 Billion, Specialty Consultants Reports Service revenue in the pest control market grew by 2.9%, according to the newly released report "A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Structural Pest Control Industry" from Specialty Consultants. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — As a result of continued consolidation and attrition, the United States structural pest control industry is now comprised of slightly more than 18,800 pest control firms. In 2020, these firms generated an estimated $9.627 billion in total service revenue, a 2.9% increase from the $9.359 billion measured in 2019, according to the latest report "A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Structural Pest Control Industry from Specialty Consultants." “Achieving nearly 3% revenue growth when total U.S. GDP declined -3.5% in 2020 is remarkable and it demonstrates the resilience of the professional pest control industry and its importance as an essential service,” said Rich Kalik, partner Specialty Consultants. Residential service revenue grew by high single digits this past year. “Professional pest services to control mosquitos and ticks both grew by well more than 20% along with strong double-digit growth in services to control occasional invaders or exterior perimeter pests, as homeowners hunkered down as a defense against the COVID-19 pandemic,” added Kalik. Recurring revenue accounted for 84.7% of the residential pest control service revenue this past year. Commercial service revenue declined by low single digits. Kalik said, “the decline in commercial services revenue was not as bad as we first feared. Clearly, hospitality industries like restaurants and hotels suffered from closures and fear of travel, but that impact appears to have been offset somewhat by expanded services to grocery stores, food and beverage manufacturing, hospitals, and nursing homes.”  The termite market segment benefited from a robust housing market delivering solid growth in the number of both pre-construction and post-construction jobs completed. This past year the number of post-construction termite treatments completed increased by high single digits. The growth in the number of termite jobs completed was complimented by a meaningful improvement in the average charge per job. The 2020 season market report is the 21st edition of "A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Structural Pest Control Industry. "  A total of 800 owners or managers of pest control companies were surveyed for this study. The syndicated market report is available for purchase only by subscription, sold in its entirety. ATLANTA — Frank Meek, technical services manager, Rollins recently received the International IPM Award of Excellence (IPM Practitioner – Non-Academic), for his outstanding work in developing and implementing novel IPM-based strategies of controlling pests in the urban environment.The 2021 International IPM Achievement Awards recognize individuals who have made exceptional achievements in IPM adoption, implementation and sustainability. Meek has spent his entire career in the urban pest management industry. He has worked with manufacturers to help research new ways of controlling pests, specifically German cockroaches in the urban environment. Meek has written protocols that emphasize the importance of inspection, monitoring, and physical controls and cultural controls within a program where cockroach gel bait was necessary. His work on the introduction of cockroach gel bait into an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan to Orkin was a game changer in the 1990’s. Meek is known for his excellent communication skills, which led him to over 60 different countries, providing initial training and orientation to local staff. “It is truly an honor to receive this recognition. However, this is not my recognition alone, but also to the many coworkers and teammates across the company and industry who have been a part of advancing our work and industry,” said Meek. Jim McHale, president of JP McHale, said, “Acquiring Premier Pest Control is an important step in JP McHale Pest Management’s continued growth and in increasing our density in the Long Island portion of our service territory. Partnering with pest management experts like Premier Pest Control solidifies JP McHale Pest Management as the leading firm in our industry throughout the Greater New York City area, including Long Island. We are very excited to add Premier Pest Control to the JP McHale Pest Management family. We are proud to welcome the entire Premier Pest Control team and will partner together to continue providing a superior client experience at every point of interaction.”     John Bennett Jr., president of Premier, said, “The partnership with JP McHale Pest Management is outstanding news for our clients and employees. With JP McHale Pest Management offering clients the most innovative pest management solutions like SMART, everyone will enjoy the best and most advanced products, methods and services on the market. We look forward to combining our experienced teams and the opportunities ahead.”   Paul Giannamore and Franco Villanueva-Meyer of The Potomac Company represented and acted as exclusive financial advisors to Premier Pest Control in this transaction.