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Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Growing up, Sam Hill didn’t realize he could make a career doing something outdoors aside from forestry. He pursued a chemistry major but was stuck in a basement lab with no windows, driving him to search […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Right before Christmas in 1969, Richard Angelo was laid off from his nursery job. Operating out of his garage, he started Stay Green, Inc., based in Santa Clarita, California, in 1970, serving residential clients. Now his […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Villani Landshapers, Inc., based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, is not Gino Villani’s first business, but it is his first time entering the landscape industry. While he always has had an entrepreneurial spirit, his background is in […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Mike Leman moved from Illinois to Colorado in 1982 with the goal of working in agriculture. Unable to find an ag job that would pay the bills, he ended up becoming a landscape laborer. He spent […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Roland Harvey founded Natural Concerns, Inc., based in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, in 1989 with the desire to provide quality landscaping services utilizing a natural approach. He had worked for other landscape companies but decided to go […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. GoldGlo Landscapes, LLC, based in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, was founded in 2002. President Steven Stoltzfus was just 21 at the time, but he had worked in residential construction for five years as a general contractor. Stoltzfus’s father […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Mark Ables, president and CEO of Ables Landscapes, based in Hollywood, South Carolina, says landscaping is in his blood. His father, Bob Ables, started the company in 1975 and Mark has worked there off and on […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. From day one, Mangold Horticulture, based in Excelsior, Minnesota, has been a full-service garden-centric company for high-end residential clients on the west side of Minneapolis. “We try to sell ourselves as the full solution,” says Justin […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Eric Remeis, president of Yard Solutions based in Groveport, Ohio, grew up landscaping with his friends in the summer. This is what drew him to the agricultural branch of Ohio State, but it was when he […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Blue Claw Associates, Inc., based in Osterville, Massachusetts, has experienced explosive growth over the past four years. They’ve gone from having two employees in 2018 to 59 on staff currently. However, this isn’t owner Ian McCarthy’s […]