Our values are the core of everything we do. They don’t just guide us; they’re embodied by each of us. They help define us, how we do our work and leave our mark.
Terminix is committed to creating an inclusive work environment — one that values the perspectives and contributions of all team members. Our inclusion, diversity, and equity (IDE) approach seeks to create inclusion — a sense of belonging and feeling respected and valued for who we are as individuals — and equity or fairness in offering teammates equal access to opportunities and rewards.
Support a workforce that builds and advocates for gender, race, age, orientation, language, cultural background, education, work experience, ethnicity, and ability, as well as the religious and cultural views of Terminix team members.
Our Business Resource Groups represent our teammates’ various cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, interests, and orientations. These groups promote awareness of diverse teammate perspectives and enable their members to develop important leadership skills, valuable experience, and personal connections.
For more than 95 years, Terminix has built a reputation as one of the nation’s leading providers of termite and pest control services, safeguarding over two million homes and businesses against all types of pests in 47 states and 24 countries and territories.
E. L. Bruce, owner of a hardwood flooring company in Memphis in the 1920s, was searching for a method of protecting his wood flooring from damage by termites. When his senior chemist Frank Lyons developed the first termiticide, an insecticide specifically designed to kill termites, he realized they had discovered the formula to “nix the termites.” Hence the name Terminix, and the opening of the Bruce Terminix Research Laboratory in 1927.
Terminix pioneered the system of annual termite inspections and protection contracts. In the 1950s, we were franchising across the United States. By 1990, we were the largest pest control company in the world. In 2020, Terminix, was for the first time, independently listed on the NYSE under the ticket TMX.
