COVER STORY

Guide your growth

Build your company’s expansion on solid finances and a strong team.

For many smaller landscape and irrigation contractors, the past season has been another opportunity to take on more work than they could have expected. That influx can be the start of a growth phase for a company, but it’s important to know how to put the right pieces in place to support expansion.

When Josh Wilson, president of Dixie Lawn and Landscape in Cochran, Georgia, started out cutting grass out of high school, he didn’t give much thought to the sustainability of the business or how it could grow. He remembers reading stories in industry publications when he was in college about green industry companies that had expanded to take on huge amounts of business.