Rose Pest Solutions: Family Ties and Commitment to Team

Rose Pest Solutions, Lead Sponsor for the UMRC-Porter Hills Foundation’s Giving Gratitude events in 2022 and 2023, has a long family history. Russ Ives, Brio Living Services Board member, and his brother, Jim, represent the third of four generations of the Ives family to be part of Rose Pest Solutions, with three of their children now working there.

“Sponsoring Giving Gratitude is important to our family,” says Jim. “Our maternal grandfather, Marshall R. Reed, was a Methodist Bishop. He and our grandmother, Mary Esther, moved to Chelsea Retirement Community in 1970, where she lived for 23 years. She received wonderful care. As a family-run business, this translates into wanting to support the causes that are dear to our family.”

Russ and Jim’s paternal grandfather, Harlem Ives, moved his family from Chicago to Detroit during the Depression to open a Rose Exterminator Co. office. “A friend of my grandfather’s told him about the opportunity,” says Jim. “He had no pest control experience, but took a leap of faith. My grandmother handled the bookkeeping. It has grown from two people to 370 employees today.” 

Jim and Russ believe that Rose Pest Solutions, named a 2023 Top Workplace by Detroit Free Press, and Brio Living Services share high ethical standards and a commitment to their employees. “Our corporate core values are responsiveness, teamwork, and doing the right thing,” says Jim. “We hold our clients in the highest esteem. Everything we do is because of our desire to meet and exceed client expectations.”

Russ adds, “We have no business without the people who deliver our services. We depend on each other to provide a top quality experience to our clients.”

Proceeds from the 2023 Giving Gratitude events supported the Foundation’s Team Member Support Services Fund, including Scholarships and Emergency Aid. “These are key elements of recruiting and keeping good team members to make life as good as we can for the people who depend on us at Brio Living Services,” says Russ.

Learn more about a career you’ll love at Brio Living Services or to make a gift to the UMRC-Porter Hills Foundation in support of our dedicated team members.