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DECEMBER 23, 2020

TOP HEADLINES OF 2020

10. Michigan landscaping company pitches in for health care system

While landscaping services were nonessential, D&B Landscaping of Livonia, Mich., helped construct a field hospital and erect banners in appreciation of frontline workers.

9. Briggs & Stratton assumes new beginning after restructuring

After emerging from Chapter 11 restructuring as a new company with a new owner and a new CEO, Briggs & Stratton embarked on a new beginning.

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8. Project EverGreen develops initiative for health care workers

Project EverGreen formed the GreenCare for Troops Cares for Our Health Care Heroes initiative to provide health care professionals with lawn care services.

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7. 224 companies ascend on Grow! 2020, tour Charlotte’s Loving

Hosted in February, The Grow! 2020 event in Charlotte, N.C., saw 580 attendees from 41 states and Canada representing 224 companies and an estimated $1.3 billion in revenue.

6. The path to 12 percent net profit

Kevin Kehoe explains how green industry professionals can achieve a 12 percent net profit or higher.

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5. Exclusive: OPEI CEO Kris Kiser discusses cancellation of 2020 GIE+EXPO

Landscape Management's Seth Jones spoke with Kris Kiser and asked him if GIE+EXPO is insured; if a virtual show was considered; and how the decision was ultimately made to cancel the event for 2020.

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RELATED: GIE+EXPO postponed until 2021

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4. Why Grunder Landscaping Co. closed for 2 weeks

The Grow Group webinar shared practical COVID-19 tips and protocols for businesses and details on Grunder Landscaping Co.’s decision to close.

3. BrightView acquires 2 commercial landscape companies

BrightView acquired two commercial landscape companies, Summit Landscape Group and Signature Coast Holdings, to its portfolio.

More BrightView news: BrightView’s unmanaged exits and results

2. LM150: 2020 rankings

LM’s 2020 listing of the industry’s top 150 revenue-generating firms includes individual company figures. Collectively, this list represents $12 billion in revenue, breaking last year’s record amount of $11,148,081,125.

1. How landscape companies are handling COVID-19 concerns

The team at Landscape Management updated readers in real time throughout the year to share how companies navigated COVID-19 and offered solutions to those in need.

Other COVID-19 headlines:

→ Reconfigured in Pennsylvania due to COVID-19

→ Drost Landscape prepares action plan to get back to work in Michigan

→ Bedell Property Management in Michigan ordered to cease services

→ How Blades of Green changed its approach during COVID-19

→ Crew management game-changer in North Carolina

→ Making sense of how to work in a pandemic at Senske Services

→ The green industry faces the challenges of coronavirus

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FROM OUR MAGAZINE

View the latest digital edition of Landscape Management

The nick of time: How one company implemented software, new ops processes

The story of how Quality Irrigation capitalized on a successful year in 2020 because of some well-timed decisions beforehand.

Internal marketing: Empowering employees to win with customers

Jeff Korhan explains how landscape companies can use internal marketing to empower their employees to win with customers.

December 2020 Cover (Photo: Jeff Robinson Photography)

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