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ServiceMaster to move corporate headquarter to Memphis

November 21, 2006 — ServiceMaster, a provider of cleaning products and services that employs more than 40,000 people nationwide, has announced that it is moving its corporate headquarters to Memphis, Tennessee.

The Fortune 500 company will move more than 150 headquarters positions from its current location in Downer's Grove, Illinois. In addition, the company will create several hundred additional jobs in Memphis over the next five years.

"This is great news for Memphis and all of Tennessee," said Governor Phil Bredesen. "ServiceMaster is well known for focusing on those things important to all successful companies: customer service and profitable growth. ServiceMaster is also highly focused on training and developing its people, and that is a philosophy we share."

The company's best-known brands include ServiceMaster and Merry Maids business and residential cleaning services, Terminix, and TruGreen ChemLawn. In 2004 and 2006 it was named to Fortune magazine's list of America's most admired companies.

For more information about ServiceMaster and other recent corporate headquarters moves to Tennessee, see the Department of Economic and Community Development news release.