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INDUSTRY EXPERTS DISCUSS HOW TO EASE THE LABOR STRAIN
It’s no secret that even before the pandemic, green industry companies struggled with finding enough labor to service customers and expand their businesses.
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That’s why the topic of the webinar, How to Service More Customers With Fewer Employees, presented by FieldRoutes and hosted by Green Industry Pros magazine, was spot on.
Throughout the hourlong webinar, Mark Stewart, key account manager at FieldRoutes, Phil Fogarty, master franchiser for Weed Man Lawn Care, and Pierre Bridger, director of operations at Vibrant Outdoors, touched on overall labor challenges, creating operational efficiency, keeping employees engaged, incorporating technology to make employees’ lives easier and investing time and money to boost the bottom line. Scan Here A few highlights of the webinar included To continue reading Stewart discussing how the rest of this story companies implementing technology and software into their everyday operations are the ones with happier and more engaged employees; Fogarty explaining how new innovations such as robotic mowers and battery-powered equipment may help ease the labor strain and Bridger describing his company’s top recruiting methods and how they’ve panned out for the company.
Takeuchi-U.S. is preparing to open its first North American manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The new Takeuchi facility will produce compact track loaders and is expected to employ around 100 people when fully operational. Located off the Moore-Duncan Highway in Moore, S.C., Takeuchi’s new 156,000-square-foot production facility and stand-alone office building are close to major thoroughfares Interstate 26 and Interstate 85. The facility will allow Takeuchi to reduce compact track loader production lead time for its North American customers and better meet market needs. “Takeuchi has experienced its greatest demand for compact track loaders right here in North America,” said Jeff Stewart, president of Takeuchi-U.S. “That’s why manufacturing these highly sought-after machines right here in the U.S. simply makes sense. It will be faster and more efficient than shipping them from one of our overseas manufacturing facilities, and we can then pass on those efficiencies to our dealers and their customers.” Compact track loader production at the facility is expected to begin at the new facility by the end of 2022, and Takeuchi is currently hiring for all positions. Scan Here To continue reading the rest of this story
Real Green Launches Real Green Lite
Real Green by WorkWave, a provider of field service software and solutions to the green service industries, launched Real Green Lite, a software designed for small, early-stage green industry businesses that need to streamline operations, service customers and move cash faster through their business. The program includes field service and customer management functionality and allows users to accurately manage scheduling, routing, invoicing, payments and customer communications in real time, from any location, without a complicated setup or unnecessary features. Real Green was acquired by WorkWave in June 2021.
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Case Construction Equipment launched its 2022 Case Kickstart Contest, a business development program where landscape contractors enter for a chance to win a prize package built to advance the capabilities, expertise and development of their operation. Landscape business owners are encouraged to enter the contest at CaseCE. com/Kickstart by answering a few basic questions, sharing goals for the year ahead and describing how they will evolve their services if they win the contest. Representatives of Case and Envisor will select the winners, who will be notified in April. The winner will receive a free six-month lease of any new compact track loader (including the new Case TV620B), a free six-month attachment lease and professional business consultation from Ken Thomas and Ben Gandy of Envisor Consulting. All participants will be invited to attend an exclusive Case Landscape Virtual Summit later in 2022. Scan Here To continue reading
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Ruppert Landscape Promotes Wetzonis to lead NC Branch
Ruppert Landscape recently promoted Kevin Wetzonis to lead the company’s Durham, N.C., location as branch manager. In the position, Wetzonis will be responsible for the overall welfare of the Durham branch, including the safety and development of his team, strategic planning and budgeting, training, customer service and day-to-day operations. He attended Montgomery College and University of Maryland University College and is a Certified Landscape Technician. He spent his early career in Maryland in the hospitality industry before joining Ruppert as a crew member in 2003. He has worked his way through the ranks over his 18 years with the company, having held positions as enhancement field manager, landscape maintenance area manager, enhancement manager and for the last year as associate branch manager in Durham, a role which was designed to prepare talented team members to take on future leadership opportunities. He has twice been honored with the company’s Branch Impact Award (in 2010 and 2018) for his contributions and dedication to the Ruppert organization. Scan Here To continue reading
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LMN Launches LMN Gro Business Management App
Developed based on customer feedback that nearly 70% of customers expressed the need to manage their businesses on the go, Landscape Management Network (LMN), a B2B landscape business management software company, introduced a new business management software app called LMN Gro. Contractors can use LMN Gro to manage customers, track jobs, develop and distribute estimates, manage employee schedules and time tracking and process invoices. The app is designed to help landscape and snow business operators improve productivity, improve efficiency and stay organized as they grow their business. The platform combines LMN’s Pro software in an app-based solution available on Apple and Google Play stores, helping companies and operators stay on top of jobs, costs, crews and customers. LMN Gro gives business owners immediate access to online tutorials, training videos and a library of articles to help set up their accounts. The app is supported by LMN’s customer support team, which is available through both in-app chat and in person to answer questions. LMN Gro is available for $99 per month and comes with a free 30-day trial. the rest of this story
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SiteOne Landscape Supply Integrates QuickBooks into App
SiteOne Sync App users can now access Intuit QuickBooks for billing. The app itself is free for all SiteOne account holders. Once connected, landscape professionals can bring purchases from SiteOne into QuickBooks to see product details and fee breakdowns for each transaction. These can then be categorized individually, reducing manual entry and resulting errors, while also gaining access to more important purchase details—including product descriptions, item costs, delivery fees and sales tax for each transaction. There are free videos available online to see how the functionality works.
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Daliborka Ribeiro Joins JLG Product Management Team
JLG Industries has named Daliborka (Dali) Ribeiro the director of product management for JLG and SkyTrak telehandlers. In this role, Ribeiro will lead the multigeneration product plan and drive the direction and implementation of JLG’s telehandler go-to-market strategy. In 1998, Ribeiro and her parents moved from the former Yugoslavia to Chambersburg, Pa., where she completed high school and went on to study at Penn State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in marketing. After graduation, she followed in her father’s footsteps and joined JLG in 2005 as a parts pricing analyst. While in her first role at JLG, she continued her studies at Shippensburg University, where she earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the John L. Grove School of Business. She advanced to a parts pricing manager role and became a senior manager of business development, acquiring responsibilities beyond parts pricing, which included coordination with the supply chain, aftermarket parts sales and integrated technology teams. With more than 10 years of aftermarket experience and an understanding of the JLG business and its customers, Ribeiro then advanced to a director of pricing role, where she led the team responsible for both whole goods and aftermarket parts pricing, before moving into her newest role as director of product management for telehandlers. In her new telehandler role, Ribeiro joins Ara Eckel, Bob Begley and Nate Hoover to round out the JLG product management director team. Scan Here To continue reading the rest of this story
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