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Tucson Landscape Companies to Merge

Two of Tucson’s oldest and most respected landscape companies have decided to merge. Santa Rita Landscaping, founded in 1985 by brothers Brian and Garrett Ham leads the Tucson market in providing custom residential landscape design and installation, landscaping and grading services for home builders, and commercial landscaping and maintenance.Santa Rita has won numerous awards and recognitions including 18 Arizona Landscape Contractors Installation Awards. Southwest Enviroscapes, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Richard Spross and is one of Tucson’s leading providers of landscaping services for the commercial and public sectors, including such recently completed jobs as the new Uni-Source Tower and … Read more

Preferred Landscape of San Antonio Acquired By The Millard Group of Chicago

SAN ANTONIO & CHICAGO– Chicago-based The Millard Group, a national leader in the janitorial services industry, announced today that it has acquired Preferred Landscape and Lighting of San Antonio, Texas. The two companies have complementary customer bases and service niches, and with the addition of Preferred’s capabilities to its core business offering, The Millard Group will integrate services in both horizontal and vertical platforms to strategically grow its business. Preferred will maintain its headquarters in Boerne, and there will be no staff or leadership changes. Preferred Landscape and Lighting employs 80 people and is well-recognized throughout Texas for its commercial … Read more

The Year in Review – 2011

Merger and acquisition activity within the green industry was mixed during 2011.  Although, there was a major transaction,  the larger companies in the industry were largely on the sidelines in 2011.  However, there are definite signs of life with many transactions being completed and several new private equity investments in the industry. This article includes publicly announced transactions within the industry. The largest transaction of the year was the acquisition from ServiceMaster of TruGreen Landcare by Los Angeles-based Aurora Resurgence.  On a standalone basis, TruGreen Landcare TruGreen Landcare would rank as the seventh largest company in lawn and landscape industry … Read more

What Your Birth Certificate Says About Your Exit Plan

By John Warrillow In our experience, your age has a big effect on your attitude towards your business and how you feel about one day getting out. Here’s what we have found: Business owners between 25 and 46 years old Twenty- and thirty-something business owners grew up in an age where job security did not exist. They watched as their parents got downsized or packaged off into early retirement, and that caused a somewhat jaded attitude towards the role of a business in society. Business owners in their 20’s and 30’s generally see their companies as means to an end … Read more

Lawn Dawg Acquires Rochester’s Capital Green Lawn Care

NASHUA, NH. Lawn Dawg Inc. announced the acquisition of Capital Green Lawn Care, Inc. Based in Rochester, New York, Capital Green offers a classic five-step lawn care fertilization program and supplemental lawn care services as well as a tree and shrub program. Capital Green Lawn Care, Inc. is owned and operated by Mark Zingaro of Rochester, New York. The existing operations will come under the name of Lawn Dawg in January 2012. “I’m so excited to be part of the Lawn Dawg team,” states Zingaro. “This acquisition gives me the most support that I ever had working for another company … Read more