Orville Wayne Rollins (1912 - 1991) is the co-founder, with his younger brother John W. Rollins, of Rollins Inc., the US's largest pest control conglomerate.
Early life
Orville Wayne Rollins was born in Ringgold, Georgia, in 1912 to a farmer father and a schoolteacher mother.[1]
Career
Rollins worked for at Standard-Coosa-Thatcher, a textile mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee for 15 years, then for the Hercules Power Company as a TNT supervisor.[1]
He returned to Ringgold in 1945, and with his wife and younger brother began to rebuild a mineral springs resort. He then started a radio station to provide cheaper advertising for his brother’s Virginia automobile dealership. Rollins Broadcasting was formed in 1948, and grew to control ten radio and four televsion stations.[1]
In 1964, with company annual revenues of $9 million, he borrowed $60 million in the first leveraged buyout in the US to buy Orkin from its family owners, and move into the pest control business.[1]
Personal life
He had two sons, Gary Rollins and Randall Rollins.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d "O. Wayne Rollins". Orkin. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ O'Connor, Clare (29 September 2014). "Inside An $8 Billion Family Feud: Who Poisoned The Orkin Fortune?". Forbes. Retrieved 27 August 2015.