Gary Rollins
Atlanta, Georgia
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
United States
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pest control
$3,600,000,000
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#452 Billionaires 2019
#153 Forbes 400 2018
Billionaire brothers Randall and Gary Rollins preside over Orkin, the biggest pest control company by revenues in North America.The bug-killing business is booming: in April 2017, the company reported its 44th consecutive quarter of sales and earnings growth.Of the 19 subsidiaries under the Atlanta-headquartered Rollins Inc. umbrella, exterminator Orkin is the best known.The company was founded by their father and uncle, who bought several local radio stations and named it Rollins Broadcasting. It went public in 1961.
The name Orkin derives from Latvian immigrant Otto Orkin, a 14-year-old who in 1901 was selling poison door-to-door. Rollins bought Orkin in 1964 for $62 million. Since 2010, Gary's children have been suing their father and uncle, alleging the elders have been blocking access to a web of trusts worth around $3 billion.
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