Ownership profile
Who owns Terminix?
Terminix is wholly owned by Rentokil Initial plc, a publicly traded UK company listed on the London Stock Exchange and NYSE; it was previously PE-backed (by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice via ServiceMaster), but that PE ownership ended when the company went public in 2014 and was fully extinguished when Rentokil acquired it in October 2022.
Ownership profile
Terminix
Terminix Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Terminix International Company, L.P.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rentokil Initial plc
Evidence (10)
Rentokil Initial plc is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (ticker: RTO) and also lists ADSs on the NYSE (ticker: RTO).
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/RTO/rentokil-initial-plc/company-pageRentokil Initial's own SEC filing (Form 6-K / Annual Report 2023) confirms Terminix consolidation into Rentokil from October 12, 2022.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000930157/000110465924039581/tm244279d2_ex99-1.pdfThe acquisition closed on October 12, 2022; Terminix merged into Terminix Holdings, LLC (f/k/a Leto Holdings II, LLC), becoming a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Rentokil Initial's Bidco and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Rentokil Initial plc.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1428875/000110465922108156/tm2227958d2_s8pos.htmTerminix Global Holdings, Inc. filed a Form 15 with the SEC on October 12, 2022, terminating its reporting obligations as a public company, confirming it is no longer independently publicly traded.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001428875/000110465922110791/tm2228654d1_1512g.htmIn December 2021, UK-based Rentokil Initial announced it would acquire Terminix Global Holdings for $6.7 billion in a stock-and-cash deal.
https://news.terminix.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2021/Acquisition-of-Terminix-Global-Holdings-Inc-by-Rentokil-Initial-plc-for-Stock-and-Cash/default.aspxIn October 2020, ServiceMaster Global Holdings sold its ServiceMaster Brands segment to Roark Capital and renamed itself Terminix Global Holdings, Inc., trading on NYSE as TMX — no longer PE-controlled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerminixServiceMaster Global Holdings (parent of Terminix) re-listed on the NYSE under ticker SERV in June 2014, beginning the exit from PE control.
https://www.terminix.com/about/Terminix (then part of ServiceMaster Global Holdings) was acquired by private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in July 2007, taking the company private in a ~$4.7 billion deal.
https://www.pctonline.com/news/servicemaster-ipo-filing/PitchBook classifies Terminix as 'Formerly PE-Backed' with parent company Rentokil Initial, corroborating the PE exit and current corporate ownership.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/10439-56Terminix is described by Wikipedia as 'a subsidiary of UK-based Rentokil Initial,' confirming its current corporate structure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerminixWhat's uncertain
- The operating entity 'Terminix International Company, L.P.' and the holding entity 'Terminix Holdings, LLC' are both ultimately controlled by Rentokil Initial plc; no separate privacy policy or terms of service data controller entity was reviewed in this investigation.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's PE ownership of ServiceMaster (Terminix's former parent) ended with the 2014 NYSE re-IPO; any residual PE-linked shareholding post-IPO was not separately verified but is not material to current structure.
- Rentokil Initial plc itself is a widely held public company with no identified controlling PE shareholder; institutional ownership composition was not audited here.
- The 'exited' PE classification reflects the full chain: CD&R exited via IPO (2014), and the Terminix standalone public company was absorbed into Rentokil (a non-PE public corporation) in 2022.