What is Rollins?
Rollins operates pest-control brands including Orkin across residential and commercial markets worldwide.
- Category
- Pest-control services
- Headquarters
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Founded
- 1948
- Employees
- About 20,000
- Total funding
- N/A - public company
- Valuation or Status
- NYSE: ROL public company
What is Rollins?
Rollins is a pest-control services company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia; latest public materials show $3.8 billion 2025 revenue.
Rollins is a pest-control services company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its latest public reporting shows $3.8 billion 2025 revenue, About 20,000 employees, and a public-company status of NYSE: ROL public company. The business serves large institutional, commercial, public-sector, and infrastructure customers where contract reliability matters more than one-off purchasing.
The operating model is built around multi-year accounts, local branches, route or project density, and repeatable field execution. Customers typically buy an outcome such as safer facilities, cleaner buildings, reliable meals, delivered materials, secured assets, or completed infrastructure rather than a standalone software product. That makes workforce planning, procurement, safety, and contract management central to performance.
For sellers, Rollins behaves like an enterprise account with distributed buyers. Corporate finance, procurement, IT, legal, HR, safety, and regional operations all influence decisions, while local branches or operating units often shape adoption after a vendor is approved.
What does Rollins offer?
Rollins offers services and products across Residential pest control, Commercial pest control, Termite services and related categories.
- Residential pest control· Pest-control services
- Commercial pest control· Pest-control services
- Termite services· Pest-control services
- Mosquito services· Pest-control services
- Wildlife control· Pest-control services
- Franchise operations· Pest-control services
How does Rollins make money?
Rollins earns revenue from negotiated enterprise contracts, recurring services, project work, and materials or service-line sales rather than public self-serve pricing tiers.
Rollins makes money through contracted services, project work, materials sales, or recurring route-based programs tied to its pest-control services focus. Public price tiers are generally not disclosed because enterprise contracts are negotiated by scope, location, labor model, equipment, service-level requirements, materials costs, and term length. The practical pricing model is therefore bid-based or contract-based rather than a transparent SaaS-style rate card.
Revenue quality depends on renewal rates, new-business wins, backlog conversion, route density, labor productivity, pricing discipline, and procurement scale. In field-heavy categories, margins can move quickly when wage inflation, fuel, subcontractor costs, weather, project execution, or commodity inputs change. Larger customers usually require insurance, safety, compliance, cybersecurity, and supplier-management controls before expanding a relationship.
Growth is driven by organic sales, price realization, cross-selling, acquisitions, and expansion into higher-value services. Vendors selling into Rollins should map budgets to operating efficiency, safety, fleet, workforce productivity, procurement savings, customer experience, and integration with existing enterprise systems.
Who leads Rollins?
Rollins's leadership includes Jerry Gahlhoff Jr. (President and Chief Executive Officer), William W. Harkins (EVP and Chief Financial Officer), Elizabeth Chandler (Chief Legal Officer).
- Jerry Gahlhoff Jr.President and Chief Executive OfficerCEO since 2023Leads Rollins' organic growth, acquisitions, and brand portfolio.
- William W. HarkinsEVP and Chief Financial OfficerCFO effective June 15, 2026Promoted from chief accounting officer to lead finance.
- Elizabeth ChandlerChief Legal OfficerSenior legal executiveLeads legal, governance, and compliance.
- John WilsonVice ChairmanLong-tenured leaderProvides continuity from Rollins' operating history.
How do you contact Rollins's leadership?
Use the published investor-relations or corporate mailbox investors@rollins.com; no personal executive email is presented here as verified unless the company publishes it.
investors@rollins.comHow much funding has Rollins raised?
Rollins is a public company, so disclosed venture funding is not applicable; the relevant status is NYSE: ROL public company.
Rollins is a public company, so venture funding rounds are not the relevant capital-history lens. The current profile should be read as public-market status rather than private funding: NYSE: ROL public company, with market capitalization changing daily based on share price. The page therefore records total funding as not applicable instead of inventing venture rounds.
The major financing milestones are the company's founding, public listing or spin-off where applicable, material acquisitions, and recent fiscal-year performance. Public companies fund growth through operating cash flow, revolving credit facilities, bond or term-loan markets, equity issuance when appropriate, and acquisition financing rather than seed, Series A, or Series B rounds.
For sellers, public-company status usually means mature procurement, formal information-security reviews, finance controls, and budget owners who must tie new tools or services to productivity, margin, safety, compliance, or revenue growth.
How did Rollins get here?
Rollins's history is defined by its founding, public-market milestones, acquisitions, and recent fiscal performance.
- 1948Rollins foundedThe Rollins family built the business through broadcasting and services holdings.
- 1964Orkin acquiredThe Orkin acquisition became the center of Rollins' pest-control platform.
- 2023CEO successionJerry Gahlhoff Jr. became president and CEO.
- 2025Revenue reached $3.8 billionFull-year revenue grew 11.0%, including organic and acquisition-related growth.
- 2026CFO transitionWilliam Harkins became CFO effective June 15, 2026.
Who are Rollins's competitors?
Rollins competes with public and private operators that sell adjacent services to enterprise, institutional, infrastructure, or construction-materials buyers.
- Rentokil InitialGlobal pest-control and hygiene competitor with Terminix in North America.
- EcolabBroader institutional hygiene and water company with pest-elimination services.
- AnticimexPrivate global pest-control company with a digital pest-monitoring emphasis.
- Arrow ExterminatorsRegional pest-control company with strong residential and commercial service density.
- Massey ServicesRegional pest, termite, and landscape-services operator in the Southeast.
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