MANSFIELD — Rumpke Waste & Recycling received three honors for its record-setting growth, exceptional service and management excellence during May, the company announced in a Tuesday press release.
For the sixth consecutive year, Rumpke was selected as a U.S. Best Managed Company, maintaining its prestigious Gold status.
The U.S. Best Managed Companies is sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal.
The 2025 designees are U.S. private companies demonstrating excellence in strategic planning and execution, a commitment to their people, as well as maintaining financial performance and governance.
Designees drove their businesses forward while remaining dedicated to their people and focusing on their customers. Advanced technology including AI took a center role for most of these companies, to create efficiencies and enhance the quality of products and experiences.
External judges reviewed hallmarks of excellence in four key areas: strategy, ability to execute, corporate culture and governance/financial performance to identify winners.
Rumpke joins only 60 other businesses to earn the designation as a U.S. Best Managed Company.
“It’s all of us working every day while using our company values of teamwork, quality, perseverance, growth and responsibility, as a guide to innovate and provide complete solutions to our customers,” said President & CEO Bill Rumpke Jr.
The Association for Corporate Growth (Cincinnati Chapter) also honored Rumpke. The company received a Deal Maker Award on May 14.
Now in its 25th year, the Deal Maker Award recognizes outstanding organizations and individuals with proven records of leadership, innovation, and success through the art of the deal.
In 2024, Rumpke averaged about one acquisition per month securing two landfills, multiple hauling operations and approximately 150 employees. In 2024 Rumpke’s revenues topped $1.2 billion.
This is Rumpke’s second Deal Maker Award. The Association for Corporate Growth is comprised of middle-market private equity and business leaders focused on corporate growth and M&A.
Rumpke concludes the month with recognition as a Cincinnati Business Courier Fast 55 honoree. This year’s Fast 55 represent a compilation of industries that excelled financially and achieved significant growth topping the list of Cincinnati’s fastest growing companies.
U.S. Best Managed Companies Program
The Best Managed Companies program is a mark of excellence for private companies. U.S. designees have revenues of at least $250 million.
Hundreds of private companies around the world have competed for this designation in their respective countries through a rigorous and independent process that evaluates four key criteria in their management skills and practices — strategy, execution, culture and governance/financials.
U.S. program sponsors are Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal. For more information, visit www.usbestmanagedcompanies.com.
Association for Corporate Growth
The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) is a global community with 57 chapters serving middle-market M&A deal makers and business leaders focused on driving growth.
ACG’s 14,500 members include the owners, executives, lenders, and advisors to more than 26,000 of the world’s fastest growing middle-market companies.
For the past 30 years, ACG Cincinnati has been one of the most robust and active chapters in the network, with over 300 members within the deal-making eco-system.
Rumpke Waste & Recycling
Cincinnati based Rumpke Waste & Recycling is a family owned company that started in 1932. Rumpke again set new records and finished 2024 as the tenth largest waste and recycling firm in the country, with the 8th largest vehicle fleet, the 6th most landfills, and the largest recycling center in North America.
Throughout 2024, Rumpke completed 10 acquisitions including two new landfills, and several hauling operations and customers throughout its five-state service area of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and West Virginia. Since 2016, Rumpke has completed 72 acquisitions averaging one a month.
Recently, Rumpke opened new landfill gas to energy systems at its Beech Hollow Landfill and Pike Sanitation Landfill in Ohio and at its Montgomery County Landfill in Kentucky bringing the total to nine landfill gas to energy systems.
Together these plants supply enough energy for more than 70,000 homes and businesses. Additionally, Rumpke’s landfill teams constructed almost 40 acres of landfill capacity.
Rumpke developed new infrastructure including a hauling operation in Delaware, Ohio, new office and maintenance center in Greenville, Ohio, new transfer stations in Covington Kentucky, and Cincinnati and Zanesville, Ohio. In all Rumpke operates 26 transfer stations.
The grand opening of the 226.000 square foot Rumpke Recycling & Resource Center in Columbus, Ohio was a major accomplishment in 2024.
The facility’s enhanced sorting capabilities and ability to swiftly recover 99 percent of recyclables at a rate of 60-plus tons per hour set a new standard for single stream processing in North America.
In all, Rumpke’s 16 recycling centers processed about 1.3 billion pounds of material in 2024.
Today, the Rumpke team has grown to 4,400 employees.
Together the Rumpke team is servicing about 2 million accounts and 471 municipal contracts including curbside recycling services for Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.