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mergers and acquisitions

What Your Business Needs to Be Worth & What You Think It’s Worth

If you’ve ever thought about selling the business, you probably have a number in your head for how much your company is worth. Unfortunately, this number is often disconnected from reality and will leave you disappointed once you meet with buyers. ā€œEveryone hears about the headline multiple, like SavATree trading at 18 times earnings, and […]

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Weighing Your Real Estate Options During an M&A Transaction

Buying or selling a landscape company is complex enough on its own, but one element that can easily be overlooked early on is the question of who owns the business’s real estate after the transaction is complete. How Real Estate Affects the Deal In this industry, it’s very common for landscape company owners to either […]

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So, You Want to Buy a Landscape Company? M&A Lessons Learned from Other Organizations

Mergers and acquisitions can be an alluring form of growth, but it is important to approach this decision with eyes wide open as it has a direct impact on your operations and culture, not just your bottom line.   Whether you are considering being backed by private equity or completing acquisitions on your own, this […]

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Don’t Break What Made the Company Valuable

Change is hard. Yet it is a necessary component of the M&A process. While it will take new team members time to adjust, how you approach integration plays a huge role in how effective you are at preserving what made the company worth acquiring in the first place. ā€œWhen culture is honored and evolved, engagement […]

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Post-Acquisition Playbook: How to Blend Landscape Company Cultures

With mergers and acquisitions, a company’s numbers may get the deal done, but how well their culture is integrated will determine whether the partnership succeeds or unravels in the months that follow. Blending company cultures is not a sprint but a marathon that starts well before the papers are signed and continues long after the […]

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From King Green to a National Platform: Inside the Launch of Legacy Lawns

ā€œWho will protect what I built?ā€ is the question owners must ask when they reach the point where they’re ready to retire or simply take a step back from the business. In response to this, Jennifer Jorge and other industry leaders have collaborated to launch Legacy Lawns, a new national lawn care platform, which unites […]

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Rooted in Relationships: Inside the Formation of Hatcher Landscape Partners

In September 2025, Olive Branch, Mississippi-based Michael Hatcher & Associates and Raleigh, North Carolina-based GreenView Partners came together to form the new Hatcher Landscape Partners. This landscape platform was created out of a desire to offer a new breed of commercial landscape company that blends operational excellence with authentic stewardship. ā€œCommercial landscaping has too often […]

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Turf Masters Brands Scales Up While Honoring Local Legacies

Turf Masters Brands, based in Roswell, Georgia, has completed 19 acquisitions and 12 in the last year alone. Andy Kadrich, founder of Turf Masters Lawncare LLC, senior advisor and board member to Turf Masters Brands, says he formed Turf Masters Brands along with All Turf Holdings, LLC and Green Group Holdings in 2022 with the […]

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A 4-Year Roadmap

It’s a new year, and with it comes a fresh start to lead your landscape company to new heights. To help guide you in your business decisions for the near future, we’ve outlined a roadmap of where we think things are headed centered around some of the industry’s hot topics. The Future of Artificial Intelligence […]

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Changing the Game: Senske Services Maintains Family Culture Through National Expansion

For some lawn and landscape companies, mergers and acquisitions are only considered once private equity is involved. Senske Services, based in Kennewick, Washington, completed between 17 and 20 lawn care and plant health acquisitions well before partnering with private equity firm GTCR. ā€œMany of these acquisitions were smaller companies that approached us because their owners […]

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