Service Master
ServiceMaster is a privately held Fortune 1000 company that provides various services to residences and firms. Its headquarters are located in Memphis, Tennessee after moving there from Downers Grove, Illinois in early 2007. Brands operated by ServiceMaster include: TruGreen, Terminix, American Home Shield, Furniture Medic, AmeriSpec, ServiceMaster Clean, and Merry Maids. ServiceMaster was founded 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. Its movement into business services makes it a large outsourcing company. The core services of the company include lawn care and landscape maintenance, termite and pest control, home service contracts, disaster response and reconstruction, cleaning and disaster restoration, house cleaning, furniture repair, and home inspection.
ServiceMaster has more than 5,100 company-owned and franchise locations around the country. It has 27,000 corporate employees and a franchise network that independently employs over 31,000 additional people.
They formerly owned American Residential Services (also known as ARS/Rescue Rooter), having sold the company off in 2006.
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