Massey Services announced July 6 it acquired Jacksonville-based Peninsular Pest Control Service Inc.
Peninsular, founded in 1954, offers pest control and lawn services to 30,000 customers in Northeast Florida.
“We are pleased to welcome the Peninsular team members and customers to the Massey Services organization,” said Tony Massey, president and CEO of Massey Services.
“Peninsular Pest Control is a second generation, family-owned organization that has been providing superior service to customers for nearly 70 years. We look forward to carrying on their legacy of total customer satisfaction for years to come.”
The terms of the deal were not announced.
Massey Services was founded in Orlando in 1985. It has 177 locations and 2,600 employees.
It offers pest prevention, termite protection, landscape and irrigation services to nearly 800,000 customers.
Massey has service centers in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Massey said the acquisition is its fifth in 2022 and the ninth in the past 12 months. In June, it acquired Safeguard Pest Control in Harlingen, Texas, according to Pest Control Technology online.
LR Tullius Inc., a San Diego-based mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, represented Peninsular Pest Control in the transaction.
