Bartlett Tree Experts acquired the business operations of Tree Medics located in New Orleans, La. With the addition of this new location, Bartlett now has offices in 26 states as well as Canada, Ireland and Great Britain.
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Virginia Green Lawn Care, a Richmond, Va.-based business acquired Beaver Tree and Lawn Service. Through this acquisition, Virginia Green Lawn Care is now one of Central Virginia’s larger independent lawn care companies with more than 35 employees servicing commercial and residential customers. (more…)

Austin Outdoor, a commercial landscape services firm, has acquired the landscape management division of Cornerstone Solutions Group. (more…)

Consolidation continues in the lawn and landscape industry with Levine Leichtman Capital Partners purchase of Lawn Doctor Inc., a leading franchisor of lawn care services, which operates through a nationwide network of over 460 independently-owned franchise locations in 38 states.  Levine Leichtman, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, invested $17.5 million in the acquisition of Lawn Doctor and secured an undisclosed amount of debt financing from Fifth Third Bank. (more…)

Potomac’s outsourced corporate development program is tailored to meet the needs of regional and middle market lawn and landscape contractors that, unlike the large national firms, do not have a full-time, in-house corporate development staff. Many middle market landscape companies understand that acquisitions are often the fastest, most cost-effective means of growing their businesses, but lack in-house expertise, cannot afford to divert key employees from their normal responsibilities or justify the expense of employing dedicated staff to run a value-creating mergers & acquisitions program. (more…)