{"id":328011,"date":"2026-06-08T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328011\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:08:15","slug":"roto-rooter-buys-franchise-territory-in-corpus-christi-rio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328011\/","title":{"rendered":"Roto-Rooter Buys Franchise Territory in Corpus Christi, Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">CINCINNATI, June  08, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Roto-Rooter Services Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chemed Corporation (&#8220;Chemed&#8221;) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=5VjlKjrtvs1b5okKBXF5NvDFnmkHcf2Xmbr1XHQFXCQZ4u1HFiwk2pjfR_PLPRPxpNVDYPQMiV7Fj56uqsn0WQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(NYSE: CHE\">(NYSE: CHE<\/a>) announced it has acquired a formerly independent Roto-Rooter franchise serving 21 counties in south Texas for approximately $12.0 million. The service area includes the cities of Corpus Christi, McAllen, Laredo and Brownsville, Texas.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chemed Corporation (www.chemed.com) operates two wholly owned subsidiaries: VITAS Healthcare and Roto-Rooter. VITAS is the nation&#8217;s largest provider of end-of-life hospice care and Roto-Rooter is the nation\u2019s leading provider of plumbing and drain cleaning services.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Statements in this press release or in other Chemed communications may relate to future events or Chemed&#8217;s future performance. Such statements are forward-looking statements and are based on present information Chemed has related to its existing business circumstances. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements are subject to inherent risk and that actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Further, investors are cautioned that Chemed does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements based on unanticipated events or changed expectations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">CONTACT:\u00a0<br \/>Michael D. Witzeman<br \/>(513) 762-6714<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Chemed-Corp-.png\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI, June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Roto-Rooter Services Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chemed Corporation (&#8220;Chemed&#8221;)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[235,117187,117186,155,157,156,117185,117188],"class_list":["post-328011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-acquisition","tag-chemed","tag-chemed-corp","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-nyseche","tag-roto-rooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}