Sell My Green Business

I recently called a green industry businessman about a business opportunity  – a business for sale in a complementary segment of the green industry.  It wasn’t an obviously  perfect fit, but I thought there was a chance he might be interested enough to take a look.  After hearing that I was calling about a potential [...]

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The months after the holiday rush can be some of the most tedious and boring of the year. Winter has truly set in, and most people are not thinking of landscaping their yards.  Buying plants is counter-intuitive with a foot of snow on the ground, and the push to buy Christmas trees and poinsettias seems [...]

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The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship have introduced legislation to enhance Small Business Administration lending programs.Committee chair Mary Landrieu, D-La., and ranking member Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, introduced the “Small Business Job Creation and Access to Capital Act of 2009.” The bill would increase the limit for [...]

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Acquisition Propels Massey Services to 5th Largest Pest Management Company in the Nation
ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Harvey L. Massey, Chairman and CEO of Florida-based Massey Services, Inc., today announced the closing of the company’s purchase of Sunair Services, Inc. (SNR-AMEX), parent of Middleton Lawn & Pest Control, Inc. Sunair and Middleton had been operating as a [...]

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From Accuval. Read it all here.
Year after year, many Americans take part in the holiday tradition of purchasing and decorating a Christmas tree. While decorating homes with greens and lights was started by the Romans, it was the Germans and Scandinavians that placed evergreen trees inside their homes in a demonstration of hope for the [...]

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From Accuval. Read it all here.
Identify and maintain your strengths and your best customers
Capture market share: consider opportunistic acquisitions
Manage liquidity as closely as profitability
Keep core activities in–house and outsource everything else
Create new metrics and manage by them
Communicate and reenergize!

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My wife and I recently visited a favorite high-end garden center in our hometown shopping for Christmas items.  She is a poinsettia fanatic (keeping them going nearly year-round) and also a very particular buyer of evergreen roping or garland.  This particular garden center had no less than eight different kinds of garland.  The kind my [...]

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sunair Services Corporation (NYSE Amex: SNR) announced today that its shareholders, voting at a special meeting, approved the merger of Sunair with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Massey Services, Inc. In connection with the merger, each outstanding share of Sunair’s common stock (other than shares held by [...]

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