Company: RKLIF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001104659-25-027944
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Company: RENTOKIL INITIAL PLC /FI
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
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 with respect to ESG issues or to effectively respond to new, or changes in, legal or regulatory requirements concerning environmental or other ESG matters, or increased operating or manufacturing costs due to increased regulation, could adversely affect our business, reputation, results of operation, financial condition and/or prospects. In addition, we may also be adversely impacted as a result of conduct by contractors, customers or suppliers that fail to meet our or our stakeholders’ ESG standards.

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Supply chain issues may result in product shortages or disruptions to our business.
We have a complex global network of suppliers that continues to expand to meet increased customer demand and may, in the future, further evolve in response to market conditions. Although the majority of the products we use are generally available from multiple sources, and alternatives have been generally available in the event of disruption in the past, we could experience material disruptions in production and other supply chain issues on specific bespoke products (including as a result of recent global events impacting shipping), which could result in out-of-stock conditions, and our results of operations and relationships with customers could be adversely affected (a) if new or existing suppliers are unable to meet any standards that we set or that are set by government or industry regulations or customers, (b) if we are unable to contract with suppliers at the quantity, quality and price levels needed for our business, or (c) if any of our key suppliers becomes insolvent, ceases or significantly reduces its operations or experiences financial distress.
Our inability to fully or substantially meet customer demand due to supply chain issues could result in, among other things, unmet consumer demand leading to reduced preference for our products or services in the future, customers purchasing products and services from competitors as a result of such shortage of products, strained customer relationships, termination of customer contracts, additional competition and new entrants into the market, and loss of potential sales and revenue, which could adversely affect our business, reputation, results of operations, financial condition and/or prospects.
We may not be able to adequately protect our intellectual property and other proprietary rights that are material to our business.
Our ability to compete effectively depends in part on our ability to obtain, maintain, protect, defend and enforce our intellectual property and other proprietary rights, including the service marks, trademarks, trade names and other intellectual property rights we own or licence, particularly our brand names, including Rentokil, Initial, Ambius, Terminix, Copesan, Assured, McCloud, Gregory, Ehrlich, Presto-X, Western Exterminator,