In security, the purchase of Guardrite adds further critical mass to its UK guarding operations whilst Integral, in the UK, and Alnor,in France, provide ‘bolt-on’ additions to its existing electronic security businesses.
The purchase of Hydromaster provides an entry into the German tropical plant market, whilst Plantopia adds’bolt-on’ benefits to the company’s existing South African tropical plant activities.
Commenting on these acquisitions, Sir Clive Thompson, Rentokil Chief Executive, said:-
These acquisitions are consistent with our policy of selectively acquiring high quality businesses within our specialised services areas, either to add additional critical mass to our existing activities or, in the case of Hydromaster, to roll out existing specialised services into additional countries to, in turn, provide a platform for further bolt-on acquisitional growth in that country.
