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Most landscape companies spend years fine-tuning their business before diving into M&As or attracting the attention of a private equity firm. In HeartLandās case, acquisitions and private equity have been part of the business from the very beginning. Founded in April 2016, Ed Schatz Jr., founder & CEO of HeartLand, partnered with Great Range Capital […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Make 20,150 lives more enjoyable by 2030 is Ziehler Lawn Careās current Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG). This includes growing to over 20,000 active customers and building a team of 150 employees. Andrew Ziehler, owner and […]
Carmine Schiavone is CEO of SavATree and is a member of its board of directors. Schiavone joined the company in 2020 and has more than 25 years of experience leading large, complex businesses in manufacturing, construction and field service-based enterprises. In his previous role, he led the multi-billion dollar North American fire protection installation and […]
This year, U.S. Lawns, based in Orlando, Florida, joined EverSmith Brandās portfolio of B2B service-based franchise companies. Previously, U.S. Lawns was owned by ValleyCrest and when ValleyCrest merged with The Brickman Group to form BrightView, U.S. Lawns tagged along. āWe realized it was a good time for us to spin out, a necessary time,ā says […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Guy Artigues enjoys hard work. āI truly enjoy the sweat on your brow type thing and just the instant gratification of this industry that it provided,ā Artigues says. āBack then, you were just doing little things […]
In 1974, DeSantis Landscapes, based in Salem, Oregon, was just a landscape and irrigation start-up. Over the years, the business has steadily grown to serve the Greater Portland Metro and beyond and is now at $18 million in annual revenue. Second-generation owner Dean DeSantis took a journey of his own before coming to take the […]
Richard Sperber is the executive chairman of Sperber Landscape Cos. He started in the industry working for his fatherās company, ValleyCrest Landscape Cos. Sperber took on leadership of ValleyCrest in 2001 and grew it to more than 100 worldwide locations. He merged the company with The Brickman Group in 2014 to form BrightView. After a […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Justin White, owner of K&D Landscaping, Inc., based in Watsonville, California, was born into the landscaping business as his parents started the company in the 80s. āI never really planned on taking it over,ā White says. āIt […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. In 2019, Austin Ashmore acquired Sunrise Landscape, based in Tampa, Florida, along with some outside investors. He had contemplated starting his company from scratch when he missed the entrepreneurial environment of small business, but he says […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. At the age of 18, Steve Corrigan, president of Mountain View Landscapes, Inc., based in Chicopee, Massachusetts, landed his first commercial client when an apartment manager told him they were looking for someone to cut the […]
