While low pricing may make you very competitive in your local market today, it’s going to clobber you when it comes time to sell your business.

Customer pricing is a very important consideration in the acquisition of a pest control company, and very little is said about it until it’s way too late to do anything. Are you a PCO who is focused on growing sales at all cost? Better listen up now, or start saving a bigger chunk of your paycheck for retirement… you’ll need it. (more…)

Does it ever make sense to take stock instead of cash when selling your company? For as long as the public equity markets have existed, public companies have used their stock as currency to make acquisitions. While the days of all-stock deals (pooling of interest) have more or less vanished, there does seem to be at least one public company in the pest control industry that has been effective in convincing sellers to take its stock (along with cash) in return for their companies: Sunair Services Corporation. Because Sunair is a public company, we can look to the public equity markets as a barometer of what the investing public thinks of Middleton’s acquisitions.
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