Rentokill (band)
Rentokill may refer to: * Rentokil Initial, a pest control company * Rentokill (band), an Austrian punk band {{disambig ...
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Rentokil Initial
Rentokil Initial is a British business services group based in Crawley, England. It was founded in 1925 as a pest-control business but subsequently expanded and diversified, in part through organic growth under the leadership of Sir Clive Thompson in the 1980s and 1990s, and in part, through the acquisition of BET plc in 1996, into a business delivering a wide range of facilities management services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History The company was founded in 1925 by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, Professor of entomology at Imperial College, London, who had been investigating ways to kill death watch beetles that had infested Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster. Lefroy and his assistant produced an anti-woodworm fluid called ''Ento-Kill Fluids'' ("ento" coming from the Greek word for insect, ἔντομον entomon). That year he tried to register the name ''Entokill'', but owing to existing trademarks, he chose ''R ...
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