Good growth for the U.S. structural pest control market

摘要

The U.S. structural pest control industry generated an estimated $6,524 billion in total service revenue in 2011, a 3.4 increase from the $6,307 billion measured in 2010. The top three U.S. service providers, Orkin, Terminix, and Ecolab, represented 40.0% of the total industry revenue for the termite and general pest market segments this past year. Service revenue derived from controlling bed bugs grew 28.2% from the prior year, bringing the total revenue earned to $409 million. The 5-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for bed bug service revenue is 33.1%. Single family homes and apartments were the primary leading types of accounts pest control operators treated for bed bugs. Hotels and motels ranked as the third leading type of account with more than ten percent of the pest control operators mentioning them. Slightly more than one-quarter of those servicing accounts for bed bugs report employing a monitoring device as part of their service.