Allied Waste Industries

Allied Waste Industries, Inc
Company typePublic
IndustryWaste & Disposal Services
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Defunct2008 (2008)
FateMerged Into Republic Services
SuccessorRepublic Services
Headquarters,
Key people
Joseph E. Sneed
RevenueUS$6,230,000,000 (2007)
US$273,000,000 (2007)
Number of employees
22,800
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20021201134806/http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=74587&p=IROL-index
An Allied Waste dumpster transporter truck
An Allied Waste rolloff container at a school in Durham, North Carolina

Allied Waste Industries, Inc. was a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. A vertically integrated company that owned and operated solid waste collection businesses, recycling facilities, and landfills, it was a leader in the solid waste industry in the United States. It served more than 10 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across 128 major markets in 37 states and Puerto Rico.

After purchasing Houston-based giant waste hauler Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) in 1999, together with private equity firms the Blackstone Group and Apollo Management.,[1] Allied Waste Industries, Inc. became the second largest non-hazardous solid waste management company in the United States (behind industry leader Waste Management, Inc.),[2] with annual revenues of over $5 billion and assets of nearly $14 billion.

On June 23, 2008, Allied was purchased by its smaller competitor Republic Services, Inc for US$6.1 billion. The merged company, retaining the Republic name, has become the second largest non-hazardous solid waste management company in the United States.[3]

  1. ^ A trash hauler is buying a much bigger rival, a type of deal that makes Wall Street a bit nervous The New York Times, March 9, 1999
  2. ^ Allied partners with Bridgestone Firestone, Bandag March 4, 2008 retrieved 14 May 2008
  3. ^ "Republic Agrees to Buy Allied Waste for $6.1 Billion (Update4) - Bloomberg". Bloomberg News. 2012-10-21. Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2023-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)