Rex King Jr. — majority owner of King’s Sanitary Service in Bristolville, Ohio — made a game-changing move in 2016 when he sold the portable restroom arm of his drain cleaning and septic pumping company.
In doing so, the 26-year-old businessman dramatically altered the face of the company he acquired in 2012. By selling roughly 400 restrooms and a luxury restroom trailer to a competitor, he shed a seasonal business with lower profit margins. And by using the proceeds to increase marketing efforts, update aging equipment, and invest in a jet/vac truck with a hydroexcavating package, he positioned King’s Sanitary Service
