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A Most Unusual (and Not So Bad) Year
ast year this time, pest con-trol services averaged 25.6 percent
management professionals were or $337,000 and was increasingly
forecasting a robust termite important to companies’ fiscal health.
Lcontrol season for 2020. Despite More than half (53 percent) of PMPs
the coronavirus pandemic, which shut said termite services increased as a
down the country in late March just percentage of overall company revenue
as the termite season was kicking off in the past three years; 39 percent said
in some areas, they got it. In fact, 56 termite control was more significant to a
percent of PMPs said the COVID-19 company’s bottom line than it was five
pandemic had no impact on their termite years ago. Three factors helped create
control business, according to the 2021 a surpris-ingly good year for termite
PCT State of the Termite Control control in 2020: more time spent at
Market survey, which was spon-sored home, a robust real estate market, and
by BASF and conducted by Readex, an conducive weather conditions
independent research company. 2021 State of the Termite Market Report by
Annual revenue from termite BASF
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