Month: August 2019

Clearent has acquired a controlling interest in Service Autopilot, a popular system used by lawn care companies.  Niche software companies serving green industry businesses have been popular investment targets with Real Green and Aspire receiving private equity investments.  Clearent is a portfolio company of Advent International. Here is the complete press release announcing Clearent’s investment in Service Autopilot: Payments solutions provider, Clearent, has acquired controlling interest in Service Autopilot, a field-service-management, software-as-a-service (SaaS) business serving green-industry (lawncare, snow-removal and cleaning-industry) customers. Clearent Software Holdings (CSH), a wholly owned subsidiary of St. Louis-based Clearent, announced the move as the latest example of its effort toward broadening its stable of high-quality, affordable and user-friendly solutions to customers in the field-services industry. Service Autopilot will continue to … Read more

  Bartlett Tree Experts has acquired Urban Forestry Services, Inc., a horticulture, arboriculture, and urban forestry consulting company based in Mount Vernon, Washington, which was founded in 1990. The new operation will be known as Urban Forestry Services | Bartlett Consulting. This acquisition furthers the expansion of the Company’s consulting division, which also includes HortScience | Bartlett Consulting, the United Kingdom and Ireland Consultancy team, and Bartlett Inventory Solutions. “This acquisition is helping us meet our strategic goals for the growth of our consulting division,” notes Nick Martin, Director of Bartlett Consulting. “Urban Forestry Services has an amazing reputation, and … Read more

BrightView Holdings, Inc. (“the Company” or “BrightView”), the national commercial landscaping services company in the United States, today announced the acquisition of Pro Scapes Inc. (“Pro Scapes”), a commercial landscaping company headquartered in Jamesville, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Pro Scapes began as a one-man operation in the mid-1970s. Under the leadership of founder Rick Kier and his wife, Karen L. Kier, the company grew to become a leading grounds care provider in central New York. The company and its approximately 150 employees are committed to providing high quality grounds maintenance, snow removal and irrigation services … Read more

idverde, the European leader in landscaping and maintenance of natural, urban and sports sites, has acquired Jardins de l’Evron SAS in Brittany. The acquisition of Jardins de l’Evron will significantly reinforce the idverde position in the region, and reinforce the territorial network of idverde, already present in Brittany through its agencies in Vannes and Rennes. By integrating with the idverde group, Jardins de l’Evron SAS will benefit from synergies that benefit the entire group: security, purchasing, commerce, etc. “During the development of our company, I met  the idverde teams in the field many times  and  was able to see the … Read more