| FirstService Corporation provides services to commercial, residential, and institutional customers. The company operates in four segments: Residential Property Management, Integrated Security Services, Consumer Services, and Business Services. Residential Property Management segment includes condominiums, cooperatives, gated communities, and other residential developments. It provides a range of services, including grounds maintenance, landscaping, painting, restoration, pest control, irrigation, real estate sales and leasing, heating, air conditioning, plumbing, and swimming pool management and maintenance. It manages 450,000 residential units in 2,500 community associations in the States of Florida, New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Integrated Security Services segment engages in the design, installation, repairing, and maintenance of integrated electronic security systems, including identification badging, access control, and closed-circuit television for office buildings, commercial, and industrial facilities; institutional campuses; and multiunit residential properties. Its customers include property management companies, hospitals, and universities. In Consumer Services segment, the company provides residential and commercial services through a network of 1,700 franchised and 7 company-owned locations in North America. Business Services segment provides outsourced marketing support services, which include customer relationship management, order processing, inventory management, warehousing, order assembly and shipping, coupon processing, and rebating and client profiling, as well as business process outsourcing services through a branch network in Canada and the United States. These operations were re-branded as Resolve Corporation in May 2004. FirstService Corporation was founded and incorporated in 1988. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. |
