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Landscaping Services:
United States

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Industry Overview
Market Size and Trends | Service Segmentation | Market Segmentation
Regulatory Trends and Issues | Establishment and Employment Trends

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Demand Forecasts
Market Environment | Service Forecasts | Market Forecasts

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Industry Composition | Industry Leaders | Additional Companies Cited
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Landscaping Services: United States

ABOUT THIS REPORT

Scope & Method

This report forecasts US demand for contract landscape services in US dollars to 2017.
Forecasts are also provided for the number of landscaping service establishments and
employees to 2017. Forecast totals are segmented in terms of type by:

lawn and garden

tree and shrub.

Contract services are those hired out to third parties. Services provided by the members
of a household or staff of an organization or company are excluded from the scope of
this report. In addition, this report does not include restoration or remediation services,
as they are not part of regular maintenance activities.
Total demand is also segmented by market as follows:

residential
institutional
commercial
office
industrial
other markets such as public venues, private utility plants, libraries,
museums, and nonprofit agencies.

To illustrate historical trends, total demand is provided in an annual series from 2002 to
2012; the various segments are reported at five-year intervals for 2007 and 2012. The
number of landscaping service establishments and employees are also provided for
2007 and 2012. Forecasts emanate from the identification and analysis of pertinent
statistical relationships and other historical trends/events as well as their expected
progression/impact over the forecast period. Changes in quantities between reported
years of a given total or segment are typically provided in terms of five-year compound
annual growth rates (CAGRs). For the sake of brevity, forecasts are generally stated in
smoothed CAGR-based descriptions to the forecast year, such as demand is projected
to rise 3.2% annually through 2017. The result of any particular year over that period,
however, may exhibit volatility and depart from a smoothed, long-term trend, as
historical data typically illustrate.
Key macroeconomic indicators are also provided at five-year intervals with CAGRs for
the years corresponding to other reported figures. Other various topics, including
profiles of pertinent leading suppliers, are covered in this report. A full outline of report
items by page is available in the Table of Contents.

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Landscaping Services: United States

Sources
Landscaping Services: United States is based on Building Maintenance Services, a
comprehensive industry study published by The Freedonia Group in April 2013.
Reported findings represent the synthesis and analysis of data from various primary,
secondary, macroeconomic, and demographic sources including:

firms participating in the industry

government/public agencies
national, regional, and international non-governmental organizations
trade associations and their publications
the business and trade press
The Freedonia Group Consensus Forecasts dated February 2013
the findings of other industry studies by The Freedonia Group.

Specific sources and additional resources are listed in the Resources section of this
publication for reference and to facilitate further research.

Industry Codes
The topic of this report is related to the following industry codes:
NAICS/SCIAN 2007
North American Industry Classification System

SIC
Standard Industry Codes

561730

0782
0783

Landscaping Services

Lawn and Garden Services

Ornamental Shrub and Tree Services

Copyright & Licensing

The full report is protected by copyright laws of the United States of America and
international treaties. The entire contents of the publication are copyrighted by The
Freedonia Group, Inc.

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Landscaping Services: United States

Table of Contents
Section

Page

Highlights....................................................................................................................................................... 1
Industry Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 2
Market Size & Trends .............................................................................................................................. 2
Chart 1 | United States: Landscaping Service Demand Trends, 2002-2012 ..................................... 2
Service Segmentation .............................................................................................................................. 3
Chart 2 | United States: Landscaping Service Demand by Type, 2012 ............................................. 3
Lawn & Garden. .................................................................................................................................. 4
Tree & Shrub. ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Market Segmentation ............................................................................................................................... 7
Chart 3 | United States: Landscaping Service Demand by Market, 2012 .......................................... 7
Residential. ......................................................................................................................................... 7
Institutional. ......................................................................................................................................... 8
Commercial. ........................................................................................................................................ 9
Office................................................................................................................................................... 9
Industrial. .......................................................................................................................................... 10
Other. ................................................................................................................................................ 10
Regulatory Trends & Issues .................................................................................................................. 12
Establishment & Employment Trends .................................................................................................... 14
Chart 4 | Landscaping Service Establishments by Type, 2012 ........................................................ 14
Chart 5 | Landscaping Service Employees by Type, 2012 ............................................................... 15
Demand Forecasts ...................................................................................................................................... 16
Market Environment ............................................................................................................................... 16
Table 1 | United States: Key Indicators for Landscaping Service Demand (billion dollars) ............. 16
Service Forecasts .................................................................................................................................. 17
Table 2 | United States: Landscaping Service Demand by Type (million dollars) ............................ 17
Lawn & Garden. ................................................................................................................................ 17
Tree & Shrub. ................................................................................................................................... 18
Market Forecasts ................................................................................................................................... 19
Table 3 | United States: Landscaping Service Demand by Market (million dollars) ......................... 19
Residential. ....................................................................................................................................... 19
Institutional. ....................................................................................................................................... 20
Commercial. ...................................................................................................................................... 20
Office................................................................................................................................................. 21
Industrial. .......................................................................................................................................... 21
Other. ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Industry Structure ........................................................................................................................................ 22
Industry Composition ............................................................................................................................. 22
Industry Leaders .................................................................................................................................... 23
The ServiceMaster Company ........................................................................................................... 23
ValleyCrest Companies .................................................................................................................... 24
The Brickman Group Limited ............................................................................................................ 25
Additional Companies Cited................................................................................................................... 26
Resources ................................................................................................................................................... 26
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