A look at the numbers behind the largest 150 firms in the landscape and lawn care industry. The Green Industry’s largest 150 firms, ranked by annual revenue, grossed a total of $7,668,025,804 in 2013 sales. That’s a 0.2 percent drop from last year’s list, despite the list’s bottom threshold bumping up to nearly $7.6 million from $5.4 million last year.... read more
What makes the difference between you and your competitors? You may think you know, and you may have an answer you give to customers and prospects who ask, but do you really know? Of course, this is a rhetorical question because no one could actually account for all the variances. It was interesting, though, to hear one firm’s take on what... read more
Green Industry buyers and sellers aren’t making many moves just yet. The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market has been the equivalent of an ever-long chess game for the Green Industry in 2013. Buyers and sellers are simply strategizing and waiting to make a move before yearend—or in some circumstances make no move at all. For this reason, M&A activity has... read more
As dawn breaks and your company vehicles pull out of the driveway, consider the person in the driver’s seat—hopefully buckled in—as a teenager using the family car for the first time. “What’s the last advice you would offer him or her as they depart?” asks Bill Scully, corporate safety director for ValleyCrest Landscape Cos. “Some form of that same answer... read more
Integrated landscape services firm ValleyCrest Landscape Cos. celebrated its 2013 National Safety Awareness Day by rewarding four of its many safe employees with new trucks. The presentation of the trucks was a featured part of safety events held across the country, where more than 10,500 employees gathered to recognize superior performance in workplace safety. Over the past 11 years, the... read more
ValleyCrest Landscape Cos. has been named a Supplier of Distinction by professional services and investment management firm Jones Lang LaSalle. The award recognizes suppliers that have played vital roles in elevating the firm’s ability to deliver the highest caliber of service, value and innovation to its corporate clients. Jones Lang LaSalle recognizes six suppliers each year in award categories that... read more
