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Outsourcing for growth: Growing your Green
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on March 19th, 2025. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. Because many owner/operators in the landscape...
Three traits of high-performing companies
In my February article for Landscape Management (“The haves and the have-nots”), I analyzed the results of the 11th-annual Herring Group Benchmark Report. I broke down the differences between high performers (those with an operating profit greater than 10 percent) and...
BrightView Update: Employee Turnover and Customer Retention
BrightView continues to focus on improving employee retention and morale. Management believes this improvement will significantly improve customer retention, currently at 82%. Here are some interesting statistics that tell the turnover story…
BrightView Update: Valuation, Retention and Results
In the last earnings call, BrightView’s leadership discussed the value of BrightView’s stock. Management believes the common stock is undervalued and has authorized a substantial buyback of shares. At its recent stock price, BrightView is valued significantly lower than what we see in sales of large private landscape companies.
BrightView Rebuilds: The Long Road Ahead
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on March 19th, 2025. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. An industry executive recently told me...
Grow your Green: The haves and the have-nots
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on February 18th, 2025. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. One of the best parts of my job is...
Grow your Green: Better, faster decisions with automated reporting
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on November 29th, 2024. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. Few people would argue that making...
Grow your Green: Owners must shift gears to grow well
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on August 28th, 2024. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. Just like driving a vehicle with a manual...
BrightView rebuilds: A financial and operational update
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on August 21th, 2024. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. In my article last quarter, I provided a...
Common traits of large, high-profit-margin companies
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on July 22nd, 2024. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. Earlier this year, I teamed up...
Grow your Green: Take advantage of opportunities created by private equity competitors
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on May 3rd, 2024. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. It’s no secret that I’m bullish about...
Take advantage of opportunities created by private equity competitors
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on April 18, 2024. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. It’s no secret that I’m bullish about owner-operated...
Grow your Green: These numbers tell a story
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on February 22th, 2024. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. The Herring Group recently completed its...
Sabbatical Reflections about Christmas and Business Owners
Recently, I took an eight-week sabbatical. Wow, what a great investment for my business, my family and me personally! More on that in a minute. Some years, I write a blog post for Christmas and this year is one of those years. In this post, I want to tie a famous...
Greg Herring analyzes BrightView’s latest financial update
This article originally appeared on LandscapeManagement.net on November 3rd, 2023. Greg Herring regularly writes for Landscape Management, providing financial analysis and insights tailored to landscape business owners. Managed exits, centers of excellence,...
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