{"id":344871,"date":"2026-06-21T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:51:27","slug":"roto-rooter-buys-franchise-territory-in-corpus-christi-rio-grande-valley-and-beaumont-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/344871\/","title":{"rendered":"Roto-Rooter Buys Franchise Territory in Corpus Christi, Rio Grande Valley, and Beaumont, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/23b15fb6dea64d6f658454e5f1df8951.jpeg\" alt=\"Chemed Corp.\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Chemed Corp.      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:(NYSE: CHE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;(NYSE&quot;}\" class=\"link \">(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 class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">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 class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">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 class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">CONTACT:\u00a0<br \/>Michael D. Witzeman<br \/>(513) 762-6714<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chemed Corp. CINCINNATI, June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Roto-Rooter Services Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chemed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[123027,155,157,156,53738,117188,123028],"class_list":["post-344871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-chemed-corporation","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-nyse","tag-roto-rooter","tag-wholly-owned-subsidiary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344871","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=344871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}