Orkin

American pest control company OrkinGrand opening of Orkin office in Astana, KazakhstanTypeSubsidiary of Rollins Inc.IndustryPest controlFounded1901; 125 years ago (1901)Walnutport, Pennsylvania, U.S.FounderOtto OrkinHeadquarters Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.Number of locationsMore than 400Key peopleGary Rollins (chairman)Number of employees8,000ParentRollins Inc.Websiteorkin.com Orkin is an American pest control company that was founded in 1901 by Otto Orkin. Since 1964, the company has been owned by Rollins Inc. Orkin has held research collaborations with universities around the country and with organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dating back to 1990 for pest biology research and pest-related disease studies. History Otto the Rat Man Orkin was founded in Walnutport, Pennsylvania in 1901 by Otto Orkin, who began selling rat poison door-to-door at age 14. One of six children of a Latvian immigrant family, Orkin was responsible since an early age for shooting and poisoning rats to keep them out of the family's food stores and away from their farm animals. At age 12, Orkin began experimenting with different methods to poison rats in order to discover the m