The TAP/Krendl Power Adapter System Includes:

• 1- Old Dryer Adapter
• 1- New Dryer Adapter
• 1- Old Range Adapter
• 1- New Range Adapter
• Pack Bag
• 1 Year Warranty

About Pest Control Insulation

Pest Control Insulation (PCI) is a Lula, Ga.-based distribution company focused on blended, customized insulation products, accessories and equipment for sale to the pest control industry. As the manufacturer of TAP insulation, PCI’s national customer base includes some of the largest pest control services companies in the country. In 2023, PCI generated approximately $24 million of revenue. It is now a brand of TopBuild Corp.

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Founded in 1983, Suburban Pest Control has provided residential and commercial pest management services throughout Western New York for more than four decades. Under the leadership of second-generation owners Marty and Mary Ballowe, the company is the official pest control provider for several professional sports organizations, including the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres.

Amherst Exterminators traces its roots to 1994, when Ken Drummond and Rick Crandall founded Comfort Pest Control. Following the partnership with Amherst Exterminators in 2006, the company continued to expand through strategic growth before officially rebranding as Amherst Exterminators in 2020.

Established in 2010, On The Spot Pest Control serves customers throughout Somerset, Union, Middlesex, and Morris counties. Owners Chris and Andrea Piazza built the business by delivering responsive, environmentally conscious pest control solutions backed by customer service. The company is an active member of both the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) and the New Jersey Pest Management Association (NJPMA).

About Select Exterminating

Select Exterminating was originally founded in 1959 and purchased in 1990 by Lloyd Garten. Today, the business is run by his son, Matthew Garten, who oversees the firm’s strategic partnerships.

About TAG

The Aust Group (TAG), established by former pest management professional Stuart Aust, is a family-based mergers and acquisitions (M&A) firm that specializes in advising owners and shareholders through the M&A process. TAG combines transactional expertise and pest control experience to deliver maximum value to clients. Its primary focus is exclusively on the pest control industry, and the team works alongside high-growth companies operating on a recurring business model. Additionally, TAG provides comprehensive valuation services to determine a range of values for businesses and offer strategic recommendations to optimize enterprise value before engaging in a competitive M&A process.

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Per a news release, the program was presented by The KNOW Women, “a media company, print and digital publisher, and private networking community dedicated to elevating and connecting accomplished women. The Women to KNOW recognition celebrates professional achievement, leadership and community impact. Its New Jersey hardcover publication shares the stories of the selected honorees and recognizes their contributions. Honorees are selected through a nomination, review and interview process by a panel of previous honorees and community members. Selection considers professional accomplishments, industry leadership, community or philanthropic impact, and a commitment to supporting and empowering women, including through mentorship and advocacy.”

Masciarelli joined Hamburg, N.J.-based Web-Cote Industries in 2008 and advanced through operations and executive leadership roles. She purchased the company in 2024.

“Purchasing Web-Cote was the realization of a goal I had worked toward for years,” Masciarelli said in the news release. “Ownership has brought new challenges, responsibilities and opportunities to grow. Being included among these accomplished women gave me a moment to appreciate that journey and the people who have helped make it possible.”

Masciarelli is also very involved with the professional pest management industry. She serves on the board of the United Producers, Formulators & Distributors Association (UPFDA), where she chairs the Advocacy & Ethics Committee. She also supports the organization Women in Pest & Wildlife Control (WIP&WC) through sponsorship and partnership, helping advance opportunities for women in the industry.

In addition, through her work in helping to develop the Responsible Glue Trap User (RGTU) training program, Masciarelli advocates for “responsible, informed use of glue traps, emphasizing education, sound judgment and accountability in pest management.”

“Working in the traditionally male-dominated manufacturing and pest management industries has shown me how much it matters for women to see a path to leadership and ownership,” Masciarelli said in the news release. “I’m grateful for the people who encouraged me along the way, and I want to help other women see what is possible for themselves.”

About Web-Cote Industries

Web-Cote Industries is a woman-owned manufacturer based in Hamburg, N.J., producing glue-based pest management products for the professional pest control industry. The company serves pest management professionals (PMPs) through original equipment manufacturing (OEM), private label capabilities and the trademarked Pro-Trap branded glue-based pest management products. Web-Cote Industries is a Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)-certified Women’s Business Enterprise.

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The partnership marks Northwest’s expansion into its seventh service state. While the milestone expands the company’s footprint across the Southeast, leaders from both organizations say the decision was driven by a shared commitment to people, culture and delivering extraordinary customer experiences.

As part of the partnership, Golden Circle Exterminators will continue operating under its trusted brand name while gaining access to the resources and support within the Northwest Family of Brands.

Choosing a partner that shared Golden Circle Exterminators’ values was a critical factor for second-generation family leader Marty Dyer. For over 50 years, the Golden Circle Exterminators team has built a strong reputation for customer service, deep community involvement and a commitment to taking care of people the right way.

“It has been an honor to carry forward the business my parents started and serve this community alongside such an incredible team,” Dyer said in a news release. “As I looked toward retirement, finding the right partner was about finding a company that would invest in the people who have made Golden Circle what it is today. Through my relationship with Northwest, I’ve seen firsthand their commitment to caring for teammates, customers and communities. That gave me confidence that our team will have new opportunities to grow while continuing to provide the extraordinary service our customers have come to expect. I’m excited to see all that Golden Circle accomplishes as part of the Northwest family.”

The Potomac Company represented Dyer in the acquisition.

“Getting to know Marty Dyer and the Golden Circle team, it felt like talking to members of our own team,” Stephen Phillips, co-president of Northwest Exterminating, said in the release. “The opportunity to grow with people who care so deeply about their teammates, customers and communities is something we’ll always be grateful for. We’re excited to welcome such an outstanding team into the Northwest Family and continue building on the strong foundation they’ve already created.”

The addition of Golden Circle Exterminators brings 35 teammates into the Northwest Family of Brands, who will continue to serve customers and do business operations as usual.

“Golden Circle has earned an incredible reputation because of the people behind the business,” James Nelson, regional manager for Northwest Exterminating, said in the news release. “Our focus is to support the team, invest in their continued success, and ensure customers continue receiving the service standard they’ve come to expect. We’re excited to welcome these teammates into our Northwest family.”

About Northwest Exterminating

Northwest Exterminating was founded in 1951 and is now in its third generation of Phillips’ family leadership. Joining the Rollins Inc. family of leading brands in 2017, Northwest has grown across the Southeast to include more than 65 service centers, with plans to continue that growth alongside Rollins in partnership with leading pest control brands.

About Golden Circle Exterminators

Golden Circle Exterminators was founded in 1974 by the Dyer family. The family-operated pest management company serves homeowners and businesses throughout West Tennessee and North Mississippi. For more than 50 years, the company has built its reputation on exceptional customer service, highly trained professionals, and a commitment to treating customers like family. Golden Circle provides pest, termite and moisture control services while remaining deeply involved in the communities it serves and supporting local organizations and businesses across the region.

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In the effort of training our technicians to employ IPM practices while providing rodent control, we — Kurt Treftz, ACE, of Cascade Pest Control and Luke Rambo, ACE, of Rambo Total Pest Control — have noticed that referring to “bait stations” assumes baiting will blindly occur. We want our technicians to move above automatic responses and take a moment on each account to “think” IPM.

This could mean other solutions in addition to, or even instead of, a rodenticide bait. Snap traps, glue boards, tracking powder or monitoring baits might be preferred in a given situation. As a result, we have determined to make a small but meaningful change in our respective company cultures by specifically referring to these “boxes” as rodent stations, not bait stations. We could even go a step further and call them pest stations or IPM stations, reflecting that we can monitor other pests beyond rodents that are captured by these devices.

Because rodent stations are typically employed around the exterior perimeters of homes and commercial buildings, the benefits of IPM in performing rodent control provide a significant measure of safety to people, pets and wildlife. This effort is also particularly helpful around concerns about raptors.

We have found that this small and simple move helps us with both our initial training and our ongoing efforts to employ IPM while performing rodent control. This being the case, we invite the pest management industry at large to adopt this stance to further the practice of IPM and safeguard non-target pets and wildlife.

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About Kness Pest Defense

Per company history, the Ketch-All was invented by a young, widowed father of six, Austin Enos “Brick” Kness, in 1924. Mice were prevalent at the high school in which Kness was a custodian, “and led him to the idea of the ‘box’ trap. He built the first trap from a square oilcan, a Tuxedo Tobacco can, a spring from a curtain rod, and the wood base of a crate. The first night he set his trap, he captured five mice.

“He was elated and showed the teachers and his friends. He was encouraged to build others for his friends and to seek a patent. By 1927, Kness Mfg. Co. was formed to produce the KetchAll Automatic Mousetrap and another of Kness’ inventions, the RotoBow tree saw.”

Brick Kness was inducted into the Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame in 2024.

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Newly introduced by Ensystex, the PETI Mouse Station delivers maximum placement versatility in a compact footprint. Designed with an ultra-low clearance profile of just 1.5 inches (5 × 4 × 1.5 inches), it fits seamlessly into tight, restricted spaces where traditional stations cannot go. The PETI station features integrated screw knockouts for secure mounting and a single-key operation for fast, efficient servicing. Cost-effective and built for fast deployment, it is packaged in cases of 72 stations.

About Ensystex

Ensystex was founded in 1994 by pest control operators intent on changing the landscape of the professional pest control industry. Ensystex has the expertise to synthesize, source, formulate, manufacture, promote and distribute a wide range of products to pest management professionals. With products for termite and general pest control — as well as turf and ornamental — the company sells to thousands of pest and turf and ornamental management professionals around the world. Products include:

• Abathor
• Accuthor
• Adjuthor
• Bithor
• Borathor
• Cane Catcher
• CleanRest Encasements
• Exterra
• Isophthor
• Maxxthor
• Prothor
• Rodenthor
• Thor Micro Torch +
• Vectothor
• Zythor

Ensystex is also an authorized distributor of the Nature-Cide line of products, which include:

• Nature-Cide All Purpose Concentrate
• Nature-Cide Pest Management X2
• Nature-Cide Insecticidal Dust
  

Free samples of Nature-Cide products are available upon request.

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The data confirm this trend, as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report tracked the most reported causes of these arboviral diseases, and West Nile virus tops its most recent list.

West Nile virus was the most reported cause of arboviral disease in the United States in 2024, the report showed. In 48 states and the District of Columbia, 1,955 arboviral disease cases were reported in 2024, including 189 deaths. West Nile virus accounted for 1,808 of those cases, or 92 percent of the reported arboviral disease cases. Of those, 173 patients died. Reported West Nile virus cases in 2024 dropped below the 10-year median of 2,162 cases, however.

The second most reported arboviral disease in 2024 was Powassan virus. The 60 cases that year surpassed the previous high of 49 cases in 2023. All 60 patients were hospitalized and nine died. Over the past 21 years, the number of Powassan virus cases increased by an average of 17.5 percent annually, according to the CDC report.

Notably, the Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act was signed into law Sept. 30 of this year to extend federal initiatives to combat tick-borne diseases first established through the Kay Hagan Tick Act. The law is named for former Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., who died in October 2019 from complications of Powassan virus.

“The 2024 data show arboviruses continue to be a significant threat to people’s health in the U.S.,” a CDC spokesperson told Infectious Disease Special Edition. “With no medicines or vaccines available to treat or prevent arboviruses endemic in the U.S., it is especially important for people at higher risk to take steps to prevent mosquito and tick bites, particularly as there has been an early and strong start to the arboviral season in 2026.”

The CDC offers tips on how to prevent tick and mosquito bites. It acknowledges exposure to ticks may occur year-round, and mosquitoes may be active day and night. PMPs can share the CDC’s tips with clients to help them reduce exposure that may make them sick.

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Founded in 2015 by “TheBugBrothers” Blair, Clint, Lars, Cody and Gordon Martinson, GreenForce’s mission statement is We cultivate a strong family through integrity and hard work to create Pest Free Living.

“Houston is an important market for AXN, and we’re excited to enter it alongside a company like GreenForce,” Brent Agee, CEO of AXN Growth Partners, said in a news release. “Blair, Clint, Lars, Cody and Gordon have done an incredible job building GreenForce, and I want to thank the Martinson brothers for trusting AXN with the next chapter of the business. Blair will continue leading GreenForce as brand president, and our role is to support him and his team with the resources, infrastructure, and experience needed to take GreenForce to the next level.”

“We had the opportunity to consider multiple potential partners, so it was important for us to find the right fit for our team and the future of GreenForce,” Blair Martinson, co-founder and brand president of GreenForce Pest Solutions, said in the news release. “AXN stood out because they understand the pest control industry, value what we’ve built, and share our ambition for where we can take the business. Knowing I could continue leading GreenForce while gaining the resources and support to accelerate our growth made AXN the right partner for us.”

About GreenForce Pest Solutions

Founded by the Martinson brothers, GreenForce Pest Solutions is a Spring, Texas-based pest control company serving customers throughout the greater Houston area. With its Bug Tested, Mother Approved approach, GreenForce says it has built its business around “dependable service, strong customer relationships and a commitment to protecting the homes and families it serves.”

About AXN Growth Partners

AXN Growth Partners is a platform for pest professionals, built by pest professionals. The company partners with founders who join a network of experienced operators to scale their businesses while retaining ownership and participating in future value creation. Since 1969, AXN has delivered best-in-class pest and termite services through a high-touch, customer-first approach. Today, AXN brands are among the fastest-growing in the nation, earning recognition on the Inc. 5000 as well as Best Places to Work lists. AXN continues to expand its footprint and service offerings to meet the evolving needs of residential and commercial customers. 

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About Innolytics

Innolytics is based in La Qunita, Calif. It is a privately held company developing contraceptive technology for wildlife. Innolytics’ product, OvoControl (brand of nicarbazin) represents contraceptive control for birds. OvoControl is available directly to pest management professionals through Innolytics or industry distributors.

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A loading dock is not one opening. It is four systems stacked on top of one another, built by different trades, maintained by nobody in particular, and the account manager calls the whole assembly “the dock door.” That is why the shipping area is the part of a manufacturing account that never stays clean.

I have been working on residential and commercial doors in coastal Virginia since 2013. Here is what is actually open back there, in the order I would look at it.

1. The pit, not the door

Start with the thing that stays open whether the door is up or down.

Most docks use a pit-style leveler, which is a steel deck that sits in a formed concrete pit, hinged at the back, with a lip that folds out onto the trailer. The leveler has to move inside that pit, so it cannot be tight against it. The standard result is a gap of roughly 1 inch running down both sides of the leveler and across the rear of the pit, open to outside air at the dock face.

That gap does not care about the overhead door. It is below it and behind it. A facility can shut every door at 6 p.m. and still have three open slots per dock position, plus the chain pull slot, plus the plug holes left from installation, plus whatever gap has opened between the transition plate and the concrete.

A quarter inch is a mouse. Half an inch is a rat. One inch by 3 feet, times four dock positions, is a highway.

Check it with the door down and the leveler stored, from outside, in daylight. You are looking straight into the building. If you can see the inside of the warehouse from the driveway with everything closed, that is your finding, and it outranks anything you will write about the door itself.

2. The corners of the dock seal

The foam pads around the opening are there so a backed-in trailer closes the gap between the truck and the building. They wear in a predictable pattern. The head pad at the top takes the beating; the side pads pull loose at the top corners. And what opens up is a small triangle at each upper corner where the head pad and the side pad no longer meet.

Look at the two top corners, not the middle. That is the same rule as the residential door, for the same reason: Everybody looks at eye level.

If the account runs dock shelters instead of seals, the wear shows in the curtain edges where the trailer body rubs, and in the bottom 6 inches where the tires and the bumpers hit.

3. A rolling steel door is not a weather door

This one surprises people, and it is worth knowing because it changes what you write in your inspection report.

A rolling steel service door is a curtain of interlocking slats riding in two guides, coiled on a barrel above the opening, covered by a sheet metal hood. None of that is a seal. The guide seals, the hood baffle and the rubber astragal on the bottom bar are separate line items that somebody either specified when they bought the door or did not.

On a 15-year-old warehouse door, for example, usually they did not. Even if they had, by now the seals have likely become brittle or were torn off by a forklift, and never came back. So look at three places on a rolling door: down both guides where the curtain meets the track, along the bottom bar, and up at the hood.

The hood is the one that gets missed. It is a cover over the coil, not a closed box, and on a lot of buildings it is the warmest, driest, most undisturbed spot on the exterior wall. Birds find it first. Then it is a nesting site 12 feet up with a direct line into the building.

4. The door that is never closed

Half of what I get called out for at a warehouse is not a seal problem. It is that the door will not come down, so it stays up all day and everybody stops thinking about it. Two reasons dominate.

• The first is the spring. A standard torsion spring set is usually rated somewhere around 10,000 open and close cycles. A dock door running 30 cycles a day gets there in under a year of plain arithmetic. When it breaks, the door is too heavy to close safely, and the building runs open until somebody schedules the repair.
• The second is a bent bottom section. Forklifts hit doors. Once the bottom panel or the bottom bar is deformed, the door lands crooked or the safety edge reads an obstruction and sends it back up. Nobody calls that a pest issue. It is one for as long as it lasts.
  

Worn dock bumpers feed this. When the bumpers are ground down, the trailer contacts the building instead of the block, and the first things it crushes are the seal and the door track. Bumper wear shows up as a damaged door, not as a bumper complaint.

What to put in the report

Four lines let a door contractor price the correct work instead of guessing:

1. Pit leveler: gap measured at the sides and rear, with the leveler stored.
2. Dock seal or shelter: condition of the two upper corners.
3. Overhead or rolling door: guides, bottom bar and hood, noted separately.
4. Does the door actually close, and if not, why not.

To accomplish this, do “the dock walk,” which has four stops:

1. Outside, everything closed, leveler stored. Can you see into the building? That is the pit.
2. The two upper corners of the dock seal, where the head pad meets the side pads.
3. The rolling door: both guides, the bottom bar, then look up at the hood.
4. Ask whether the door closes at the end of every shift. If the answer is “it sticks,” that is a spring or a bent bottom section, not a habit.

Why it matters

A warehouse account is a recurring account, and recurring accounts get lost over conditions nobody documented. The dock is the one place where an exclusion recommendation can be completely correct and completely useless, because the opening that got sealed was never the opening they were using.

The dock belongs to three or four trades. Reading it, though, still belongs to pest management professionals.

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The acquisition of this company, led by Cliff Stahl and his daughter-in-law Kristina Stahl, brings more than 350 Stahl customers in St. Cloud, Kissimmee, Kenansville and Harmony to Clements. Per a news release, those customers include recurring pest control and lawn spray accounts, as well as termite renewal contracts; all of them will be served from the Clements Orlando branch.

“Cliff and Kristina have spent more than 20 years taking care of their neighbors, and their customers have stayed loyal because of it,” Clements Pest Control COO Chris Slade said in the release. “We worked closely with them to make sure every account came over with the same schedule, the same pricing and the same level of care. Their customers now have the backing of a larger team and a full range of pest, termite, rodent and lawn services. We are proud to welcome them to the Clements family.”

About Clements Pest Control

Now in its third generation of family ownership, Clements Pest Control has been protecting Florida homes and businesses for more than 65 years. The company serves over 13,000 customers from its Vero Beach headquarters, as well as its offices in Stuart, Orlando and Naples, with a focus on dependable, environmentally conscious pest management.

Ronald Slade Sr. opened Clements’ second branch in Vero Beach, Fla., in 1961. After relocating his young family from Fort Lauderdale, he went door to door meeting with neighbors while building a reputation for reliable and effective service. His sons, Timothy and Ronald Jr., have spent over 40 years managing the company. In 2017, his grandson Christopher Slade joined Clements as COO.

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Restuccia joins the growing, family-owned pest management company following her tenure as division technical services manager for the Northeast Division of Orkin Pest Control. Per a news release, her experience includes technician training, regulatory compliance, complex infestation troubleshooting and the development of customized integrated pest management (IPM) plans for residential and commercial environments. That last task is designed to align with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation requirements for pesticide apprentices, and will help establish a consistent foundation in pesticide safety, regulatory compliance, IPM and other essential principles for new technicians entering the field.

Restuccia earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in entomology at Texas A&M University. She will serve as a technical resource for Thomas Pest Services’ field teams while helping strengthen the company’s training programs, treatment protocols and operational standards. Per the release, her responsibilities include “evaluating treatment methods and product usage, updating standard operating procedures, helping technicians address the biological and environmental factors contributing to pest activity, and identifying opportunities to reduce callbacks by resolving problems at their source.”

“There’s a science behind pest control,” Restuccia said in the release. “Understanding the biology and behavior of an insect or other pest helps us determine how it got into a home, what attracted it there and, most importantly, what we can do to keep it from coming back. Effective pest management isn’t just about treating what you can see; it’s about understanding and addressing the reason it’s there in the first place.”

“Danielle brings a level of scientific knowledge that will make our entire team better,” Bill Clark, president and co-owner of Thomas Pest Services, said in the release. “Our technicians encounter different situations every day, and having someone who can dig into the biology behind what they’re seeing helps us make better decisions. Just as importantly, she’s going to help us build that knowledge into how we train the next generation of Thomas technicians.”

Per the news release, Restuccia earned her BCE credential in Urban and Industrial Entomology in June 2022. Her professional experience includes holding pest control operator or applicator licenses across as many as 17 states and territories, and serving as a technical expert on complex commercial pest management accounts. She has also delivered professional presentations on carpenter ants and other wood-destroying insects, ticks and occasional invaders.

Before entering the pest management industry, Restuccia worked in Texas A&M University’s Department of Entomology as a graduate teaching assistant in advanced ecology and a scientific imaging specialist, documenting museum-quality specimens and creating taxonomic images for newly described species.

Her appointment also reflects the growing contributions of women across pest management. Restuccia joins four other women working as pest control technicians at Thomas Pest Services, adding scientific expertise and another perspective to a profession that continues to expand opportunities for women in technical and leadership roles.

“Navigating this field as a woman in a male-dominated industry has shaped a uniquely valuable perspective,” Restuccia said in the news release. “By investing in the next generation of women leaders through intentional mentorship, we can continue to open leadership pipelines and demonstrate that women belong at every level of pest control.”

About Thomas Pest Services

Based in Albany, N.Y., and founded in December 2010 by Bill Clark and Sarah Thomas-Clark, Thomas Pest Services has been protecting the health, homes and pets of the Capital Region and Hudson Valley with full-service, people-first pest prevention and treatment programs. The company builds on a family legacy in pest control dating back to 1949. Committed to community support and exceptional customer care, the company “treats little things like BIG things” to deliver guaranteed satisfaction.

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“Shelby has been instrumental in the success of our organization and has consistently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to our employees, customers, and company values,” Anticimex North America COO Bryan Cummings, whom she succeeds in the position, said in the release. “Her promotion reflects both her exceptional leadership and the tremendous impact she has had throughout her career. I am confident that Shelby will continue to strengthen our business, inspire our teams, and lead Peachtree Pest Control into an exciting new chapter of growth and success.”

Pattison began her industry career in 2008, as a customer service representative with Advanced Services, based in Augusta, Ga. After Peachtree acquired Advanced Services in 2021, Pattison continued her career across its business operations. The release notes that she has been :instrumental in strengthening operational performance, enhancing employee engagement and fostering a collaborative, team-first culture. Her leadership has contributed to improved employee retention, exceptional service delivery and stronger customer relationships throughout the organization.” In 2022, she received the National Pest Management Association’s Impact Award.

“I’m honored to have the opportunity to serve as president of Peachtree Pest Control and continue working alongside such an incredible team,” Pattison said in the news release. “Our people are the foundation of everything we do, and I remain committed to supporting their success while prioritizing the health and safety of our employees, customers, and communities. As we look to the future, we will continue delivering exceptional service, strengthening lasting customer relationships, and building on the culture of excellence that has defined Peachtree for generations.”

About Peachtree Pest Control

Founded in 1976 and based in Suwanee, Ga., Peachtree Pest Control became an Anticimex company in 2021 by being acquired by Anticimex brand Turner Pest Control. Peachtree provides custom pest management solutions for residential and commercial properties across Georgia and South Carolina. 

In August 2026, the company was named a 2026 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards winner. The recognition comes through Top Workplaces, a program powered by Energage that uses anonymous employee feedback to recognize organizations with strong workplace cultures. Peachtree earned Culture Excellence recognition in eight categories, including:

• Compensation & Benefits
• Employee Well-Being
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Professional Development
• Purpose & Values
• Work-Life Flexibility
• Employee Appreciation

In addition to the Culture Excellence Awards, Peachtree earned 12 Top Workplaces culture badges, further highlighting the strength of its workplace culture. Ten of the badges placed Peachtree in the Top 5% of organizations, while two placed the company in the Top 25%.

Peachtree’s culture badges include:

Top 25%- Meaningful Work

Top 5% – Clued-In Employees

Top 5% – Trusted Leader

Top 5% – Supportive Managers

Top 5% – Open Minded

Top 5% – Leaders In-The-Know

Top 5% – Innovation

Top 5% – Employee Appreciation

Top 5% – Cross-Team Cooperation

Top 5% – Company Direction

Top 5% – Work-Life Balance

Top 25% – Strong Values

The Top Workplaces program has a 19-year history of recognizing people-first organizations across the country and in more than 60 regional markets. Awards are based on employee feedback collected through Energage’s research-backed employee engagement survey.

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More than 500 team members and partners descended on the Omni Hotel in Atlanta, where Arrow Exterminators recognized outstanding achievements from across the company, including surpassing $475 million in total revenue.

The event also set the stage for continued growth in 2026-2027, as the company introduced its new internal fiscal year theme, “Lead Every Day: Chasing Greatness.”

Arrow Exterminators was founded in 1964 and is the largest family-owned pest and termite control company in the United States, ranked by revenue. Chairman of the Board Joe Thomas is a Pest Management Professional Hall of Famer (Class of 2009).

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The theme for this year’s New York Pest Expo, taking place from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 12 at the George Washington Bridge Doubletree Hotel in Fort Lee, N.J. is “The Art of Pest Management.”

At its finest, pest management is a craft blending technology, science and innovation. Never stop growing. Never stop improving. Aim to be a master. Come sharpen your cognitive skills with key insights from some of the industry’s most outstanding talents. Harness the power of the New York Pest Expo – a great pest management event.

The 2026 Edition promises to be bigger and better than ever with more exhibitors and attendees than in years past. Stay tech-savvy and sharp as you visit with dozens of manufacturers and business support providers. Take advantage of great promotions and blowout pricing on supplies and equipment. Come refine your skills and don’t miss out.

Total New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Credits for the event are as follows: 7A: 6.00, 7F: 4.00, 8: 5.00

The scheduled agenda includes:

• Dr. Tim Husen, BCE, PHE, PCQI, Syngenta: “Harmonizing Product Selection – How and Why What We Use Works”
• Lou Sorkin, BCE, Ensult Associates: “Amazing Invertebrate Works of Art”
• Tommy Powell, MGK: “Making Outdoor Pest Control a Virtuosic Performance”
• Isabelle Lucero, J.T. Eaton: “The Hymenopterans – Nature’s Example of Form Meeting Function”
• Ed Dolshun, Catchmaster Pro: “Master the Catch – Proactive Protection against Rodents”
• Sylvia Kenmuir, BCE, BASF: “Make Roach Control a Masterpiece”

Learn more and register online at the URL below.

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