Rentokil
Filed under Personal Randomness
Jan
22
2007
Who would have thought that a brand name such as Rentokil would offer washroom services such as hand dryers? My initial reaction upon reading this name is that the name seems to be a group of gunners that one would rent to kill. I guess this name works well with their pest control services 
since it has a very good name recall and goes well with their mission. In fact, I was able to think of a tagline for it. It goes something like this, “Rentokil, Hire Us and your mosquitoes will perish.”
March 19th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Hi Karla,
Rentokil does indeed do loads of washrooms stuff. But the full name is Rentokil Initial which comes from an amalgam of the Greek word ‘entomon’ meaning insect and the English word ‘kill’. The company has done lots of work in terms of branding and now the washrooms stuff is branded ‘Initial’ which gets around the name probably nicely!!
Anyway - thought you would like to know…. don’t know why but hey - there you go. It’s a slow Monday.
Chris
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