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Business Owners:

I found myself the other night going to turn on the heat out of habit and noticed that the thermostat read an alarmingly hot 64 degrees. At first, I wondered if it was working. Then I realized it wasn't that cold. And according to my calendar, March 20 marks the beginning of spring. So it must be true.

While we may miss the fun of exhaling huge vapor clouds into wintry days, many businesses are getting ready for spring growth. Including landscaping businesses.

And there are lots of businesses associated with landscaping, from landscape architecture and design to ongoing residential maintenance service providers and the equipment manufacturers, distributors, and dealers specific to the industry.

You'll find a tag cloud of some related keywords here:

landscape  landscaping  lawn related 

lawn  lawn equipment business for sale 

lawn landscaping  lawn related biz  nursery

All of these green businesses are growth businesses in the great sense that both businesses and individuals will continue to shed more hands-on duties in order to focus on what is most important to them. And this leaves the garden gate wide open for opportunity to rake up revenues in an established business.

Are you ready for some growth?

 

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Tree trimming and tree care service business:
Tree care and trimming can be done by a one-man business or a large corporate business. The larger business will be able to have the more expensive equipment which means they can be bigger trees with much greater speed as far as trimming is concerned. Vehicles with an . . . read more >>

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With nearly 10,000 listings from $20,000 to $200 million, you can find your own green and growing business on Acquireo.com.

 

And since you're already ready for some business growth, here are some landscape businesses for sale for you:

Nursery & Landscape Business for sale:

Resort Community Garden Center & Nursery Business

Minnesota auto body shop for sale

Location: Lakes Region, Texas
Price: $235,000

Offered by: DFW Business Group
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17 year old business in a rural lakeside resort community about 70 miles southeast of Dallas, Texas. The business features a retail nursery that offers landscape design, plant installation and lawn maintenance. It enjoys a robust retail business drawing a loyal customer base from a three county area. The experienced, longstanding employees provide expert advice for virtually any horticultural issues. Growth in the market area includes real estate development of exclusive subdivisions and new lakeside communities that assure continued demand for the company services. Price has been reduced by $100,000 to facilitate a quick sale. Seller may finance for the right buyer  . . .

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Landscaping/Nursery Business for sale:

Commercial & Residential Landscaping. Retail Nursery.

Location: Lavaca County, Texas | Price: $1,100,000

Offered by: Lyons Group Associates
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The Motivated Seller just reduced the price - This well established Nursery specializes in Commercial & Residential Landscape consulting, design, planning & installation and has an extremely knowledgeable retail nursery. The nursery offers free horticultural advise, and excellent quality annuals, perennials, shrubs & trees. This growing business has an exceptional reputation drawing customers from within a 50 mile radius. This business has excellent growth potential available. Developing the wholesale market and adding sprinkler system installation to the landscaping division are easy additions to the business. Businesses of this statue, experience, expertise and profitablility are hard to find. Contact us quickly so you can become the owner of this profitable  . . .

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Landscape Supply for sale:

 

Location: East Naples - Collier County, Florida | Price: $795,000

Offered by: VR Business Brokers of SW Florida
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One of Collier County's oldest and most established landscape supply companies. It is a combination of a retail store/contracting company, where customers can pick up sod, get it delivered, or have it installed at a jobsite. Has a full time outside sales person covering Marco to North Fort Myers. Long term municipal contracts in place. Full Time manager watches the crews. Owner is mostly passive and is only involved in administrative duties. An abundance of farm labor allows the firm to expand and contract the workforce as needed to keep labor costs at a minimum. Replacement cost of equipment over  . . .

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Landscape Lighting Franchise for sale:

residential / commercial low voltage lighting systems

Location: Clayton, North Carolina | Price: $75,000

Offered by: ENLIGN Business Brokers
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Designs, installs and maintains residential and commercial low voltage lighting systems, underground fencing, holiday lighting and mosquito suppressant systems. Asking price includes 2005 Ford F-150 truck. 


OWNER QUALIFICATIONS: Owner must be marketing minded, have the ability to manage installers, work with prospects, produce quotes and design systems. 

GROWTH: One of the best stories I've ever been able to share.

COMPETITION: The market is far from saturated. Competition does not offer the same level of warranty which often is the deal maker  . . .

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Lawn Landscaping /Snow Removal for sale:

 

Location: within Michigan | Price: $237,000

Offered by: Summit Business Brokers
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Recession proof business that generates revenue year round. This well established Lawn Care/Snow Removal business has a nice mix of residential and commercial customers that has routinely generated revenues that exceed $210,000 with a consistent cash flow of $100,000. All equipment is in excellent condition as it is routinely and constantly maintained by the owner. The customer list exceeds 110 with many of them paying for the service upfront, so there are cash flow bumps in the spring for lawn mowing and in the fall for snow plowing. The snow list contains over 30 residential customers and several commercial establishments that require plowing and salting. All of the equipment, which is valued over $30,000 is included in the sale of the business. The business is currently operated from the owners home  . . .

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Garden & Landscaping for sale:

 

Location: Northern Michigan | Price: $650,000

Offered by: Sunbelt Business Brokers
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Got a green thumb? Enjoy gardening? Want to live and work in beautiful northern Minnesota? Take advantage of this great opportunity to grow your career with this long-40-year old garden, nursery and landscaping business located in the lakes country of northern Minnesota. The owners are motivated. 
Includes prime real estate comprised of a 2.18 acre parcel located on a high traffic commercial highway, a 1600 square foot retail garden store with offices, and green houses and other out buildings. The real estate asking price is $488,500. Includes inventory, equipment and its 40-year excellent reputation with its customers. With well over $100,000 of owner’s discretionary cash flow, this is a great value for an established business with an impressive . . .

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Landscape and hardscape company for sale:

Location: Carroll County, Maryland | Price: $1,500,000

Offered by: The Marvin Group
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This listing is for a highly profitable landscaping company and nursery located in central Maryland that is available to a qualified buyer. This business offers a wide spectrum of landscaping services for residential and commercial customers including; leaf clean up, planting, tree removal, tree and shrub pruning, snow removal in the winter, landscape design, spring and fall clean-up, light hauling, Bobcat, grading, seeding & sod work, lawn renovations and more. For hardscaping, they carry both EP Henry and Nicolock, along with other stones and boulders. The business offers free estimates and designs and although they do not install hardscapes, they will be happy to arrange for it to be done through one of several reputable contractors of their customers' choice in their sales area. They offer products for patios, walkways, retaining walls, pillars, paved driveways, concrete work/removal, and stone work. The bulk of this company's business comes from their outstanding relationship with local contractors. Construction services make up 92% of their revenues with 8% for residential services. This highly profitable business has shown consistent growth over the last three years in both their revenues and owner benefit making this a great business opportunity for a new buyer. All the assets are in place and are to be transferred with the sale of the business. In addition, the real estate values at $1,500,000 is also to be transferred with the . . .

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Powered Landscaping and Gardening for sale:

Manufacturer of Powered Landscaping and Gardening Equipment

Location: California | Price: $1,265,000

Offered by: Business Team
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This company has been manufacturing a variety of U.S. patented, gasoline powered, task specific land clearing equipment for over 20 years. Parts manufacturing and partial assembly is outsourced to local fabricators; final assembly, finishing and shipping is done at the company's facility. Sold through distributors, end users of this equipment are professional gardeners and landscapers, building contractors and retail equipment rental vendors and retail customers. Seller owns the real estate (approx. 33,642 sq. ft. of land with a 12,700 sq. ft. building) and will consider either a long term lease at market rates, or sale at $1.267 million. 

The ideal buyer would be an existing manufacturer of a compatible or complementary product line such as light equipment for construction, agriculture or logging, or an individual or group with proven product development and manufacturing experience and sufficient working capital to increase production, sales volume and profit margins by (a) either resuming in-house manufacturing, or outsourcing manufacturing overseas; and (b) employing a regional domestic and international sales force  . . .

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With our very best wishes to you for 2008.

To your continuing success,

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