BrightView acquires SGS Hawaii

BrightView Holdings has acquired SGS Hawaii, a commercial landscaping company headquartered in Wailuku, Hawaii with operations on Maui, the Big Island and Kauai. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 1995, SGS Hawaii is a resort landscaping company that has more than 100 landscape professionals and a predominantly electric fleet. SGS focuses primarily on the hotel and resort sector, with services ranging from grounds management and lawn maintenance to irrigation, tree trimming, arbor care, soil testing and fertilization.

“We are excited to welcome SGS Hawaii’s team members to the BrightView family, as we continue to grow our presence in Hawaii and execute upon our successful long-term acquisition growth strategy,” said Andrew Masterman, BrightView president and CEO. “SGS’ expertise in the hotel and resort industry strengthens our portfolio, while its commitment to reducing carbon emissions through the use of electric powered equipment is the perfect complement to our environmental sustainability strategy.”

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“SGS Hawaii has established a reputation across Hawaii’s resort industry for using battery powered lawn equipment to minimize noise and emissions and for our wide use of effective organic fertilizers,” said Sidney Sparkman, president of SGS Hawaii. “BrightView offers our company a national stage to demonstrate that landscape management can and should be stewards of the environment – this is SGS ' platform and BrightView’s vision! The BrightView Ohana brings significant opportunities and resources for our staff, which in turn will further enhance the client experience.”

SGS Hawaii is the second Hawaiian landscaping firm BrightView has purchased this year, joining Honolulu-based Performance Landscapes, which was acquired in January.

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BrightView Development Services has been a licensed landscape and irrigation contractor in Hawaii since 2008. In addition to renovating the Hualalai Four Seasons in Kona following a tsunami in 2011, BrightView also restored the irrigation system for the Hilton Waikoloa Village and Resort and performed landscape architecture work at the Four Seasons Maui.

Prime Source, a division of Albaugh, LLC, is announcing the EPA registration of new Sublime Herbicide. Sublime is a patent-pending, selective herbicide that combines mesotrione, triclopyr and dicamba into a premium non-2,4-D option for professional turfgrass managers. Additionally, in trials, Sublime did not show the unsightly weed bleaching associated with other mesotrione herbicides. Sublime is labeled for the control of over 200 broadleaf weeds including challenging species such as ground ivy, spurge, yellow wood sorrel, VA buttonweed and wild violet, and several grassy weed species.

Sublime is labeled for application to weeds growing in cool-season & certain warm-season turf species including Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, fine fescue, zoysia and dormant warm-season turf species including centipede, St. Augustine (sod) and Bermuda in commercial & residential turfgrasses. Use sites include golf courses, sod farms, athletic fields, parks, residential and commercial properties, cemeteries, airports and lawns.

“Sublime has been described as a fantastic herbicide by one university trial cooperator. It offers an exciting, effective and divergent alternative to other turf herbicides in the market,” said Bret Corbett, Technical Services Manager at Prime Source.

State registrations for Sublime are currently underway and the product should be available for shipment in Q4 through the Prime Source distribution network. For more information on Sublime and the full line of products from Prime Source go to www.primesource-albaugh.com.

 

Pacific Landscape Management, a Lawn & Landscape Top 100 company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, is expanding into the Puget Sound region.

It's partnering with Earthworks Landscape Services and the commercial landscape maintenance division of His Hands Lawn Care.  After serving the Portland, Vancouver, area for the past 22 years, Pacific set a strategic objective to expand and determined that growing into the greater Seattle area.

“I am proud of our many long-standing relationships in Portland and was always honored to be encouraged to expand into the Puget Sound region”, said Bob Grover, president of Pacific Landscape Management. “As our team grew and client relationships expanded, expansion to the Puget Sound market became a natural next step for our organization. We are excited to partner with the Earthworks and His Hands teams to bring our service to the Puget Sound region”

Earthworks and the maintenance division of His Hands fits into Pacific Landscape Management strategy to serve their regional customers and create expanded career opportunities of their team and the teams joining.  These teams provide pacific with five branch locations and a team of 150 professionals to immediately serve the entire Puget Sound region. These new branches are located in Issaquah, Mukilteo, Sumner, Tacoma and Silverdale. 

In preparation of this expansion, Tom DiMeco and Frank Corzine have also joined the Pacific Management Team. 

“I previously worked with Tom and Frank prior to starting Pacific in 2001 and it is great to work together again.   They are incredible additions to our team," said Bob Grover. “Combined with the Earthworks and His Hands teams and resources, we will be able to make an immediate impact in serving the Puget Sound Market.”

Earthworks Landscape Services has served the area for over 50 years and president Mike Moshcatel is taking this as an opportunity to retire. 

“I am excited to have my team join Pacific and am confident that this is a great move for our company, our team, and our customers,” said Mike Moshcatel, president of Earthworks Landscape Services.

His Hands Lawn Care has served the region and the peninsula since 1995, providing landscape installation and maintenance as well as snow and ice services. They have strategically decided to focus on their core competency of landscape installation.

“We have worked with Tom DiMeco for several years and when this opportunity with Pacific presented itself, we immediately determined it was a great move for us and our maintenance staff and customers,” said Charlie Orozco, president of His Hands Lawn Care. 

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