Company Information
Setting the Standard for More Than 105 Years
Founded in 1901, Atlanta-based Orkin Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rollins Inc. (NYSE:ROL). Operating under the Orkin® and Orkin-PCO® trademarks, Orkin serves more than 1.7 million clients through more than 400 branch offices in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama. Forty-seven branch offices are strictly devoted to servicing our more than 250,000 commercial clients.
In 1996, Orkin expanded its focus on commercial services to meet the growing demand for pest management professionals trained to service food processing, health care and hospitality facilities. Since that time, Orkin has become known for the best-trained professionals in the industry. Orkin’s exclusive commercial training protocol, called Acurid, requires all Orkin Commercial Pest Specialists to complete courses from Purdue University and the American Institute of Baking.
Committed to Environmentally Conscious Approaches
By following the latest best practices in pest management, we help our clients create cleaner and healthier working environments. But we believe we have a responsibility to help protect the larger environment as well. Orkin prefers using non-chemical approaches to control pests, such as mechanical traps and sealants to prevent pests from entering and infesting your facility. We also use target-specific treatments that zero in on specific pest problems with minimal hazard to people, property or the environment.
Industry Expertise
Orkin works with all types of commercial facilities, but the bulk of our experience falls into the following industry categories:
- Food processing/packaging/warehousing
- Health care (hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities)
- Foodservice (restaurants, cafeterias, other eateries)
- Food retail (national and local)
- Hospitality (hotels, motels, resorts, casinos)
- Property management (commercial and residential)
- Education (public/private schools, colleges and universities)
Orkin gets involved in the industries we serve so we can stay abreast of the trends and issues that affect our clients day in and day out. Here are just a few of the organizations we support through memberships, sponsorships or educational collaborations:
- American Association of Meat Processors (AAMP)
- American Meat Institute (AMI)
- International Association for Food Protection (IAFP)
- Grocery Manufacturers Association/Food Products Association (GMA/FPA)
- International HACCP Alliance
- International Dairy Foods Association
- Food Marketing Institute (FMI)
- Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association (PRSM)
- National Restaurant Association (NRA)
- American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES)
- Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E)
- Health Care Without Harm
- The American Health Care Association (AHCA)
- National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
- National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM)
- Building Owners and Managers Association of Atlanta (BOMA-Atlanta)
- The American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA)
- The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
- Purdue University
- National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)
Industry Awards
Orkin Commercial Services is trusted by more businesses than any other pest management provider in North America. Here are just a few of the reasons why:
Training magazine has ranked Orkin in its prestigious Top 100 list of organizations that excel at human capital development for the past four years (2003-2006), (the only pest control service company in the nation to be on the list), and named the company one of five Editor’s Choice award winners in 2003.
Pest Control Technology magazine and Syngenta Professional Products recognized Orkin with a Best-In-Class Customer Service Award in 2006.
American Society for Training and Development in 2003 recognized Orkin’s excellence in training and human capital development with First Place in the Society’s BEST Awards.
Today's Facility Manager readers recognized Orkin with Readers' Choice Awards in 2003 and 2006.
FORBES magazine has honored Orkin as the #1 Industrial Service Company for the 9th consecutive year, in their annual report on American industries.
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