Advanced Pest Control

Year established: 1980

Owner: Gene Schuessler, Owner

Location: 821 Progress, Cape Girardeau, MO

Number of employees: 25

Hours of operation: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday

Website address: www.advpest.com

What products or services do you offer? Pest Control, Termite Control, Sentricon termite colony elimination, bedbug control, weed control, rat and mouse control

What makes your business unique?

GS: That we continue to grow and have been in business for 33 years, we have had some of the same customers for the entire 33 years. When we started we didn't have a single customer, we now have 20 trucks on the road daily servicing customers.

What do you like about doing business in a small town?

GS: Knowing my customers personally and them knowing us. we can guarantee 100% satisfaction with this kind of relationship. keeping it on a personal level is a benefit of small town business and we really value that.

What was your biggest success in 2012?

GS: Advanced Pest Control has received the People's Choice Award from 2009 to 2012, was nominated for Small Business of the Year 2012 by Chamber of Commerce and received MO Pest Management Man of the Year 2012