ValleyCrest Companies has acquired Tropics North Landscaping, Inc., a landscape installation and maintenance firm headquartered in Homestead, Florida.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Tropics North, founded in 1972 by Josh and Nat Rutter, is run by owner and president, Charles Gonzalez, who joined the company in 1991. Providing both landscape installation and maintenance services to customers across south Florida and the Bahamas, Tropics North was recently ranked by industry trade publication, Lawn & Landscape, as the 30th largest landscape company in the United States. It was recognized in 2006 by the Professional Landscape Network (PLANET) with a Decade Award.
"Tropics North is a company we have respected and followed for many years, and we are very pleased to welcome their employees and customers to the ValleyCrest family," says Richard Sperber, president, ValleyCrest Companies.
Charles Gonzalez will assume an ongoing role with ValleyCrest as vice president and regional manager.
Gonzalez says, "We are excited about joining ValleyCrest. They share our passion for delivering the highest quality landscape services and bringing unmatched technical expertise, resources and depth of experience to customers throughout the state. I have been continually impressed by the quality of their work and their people in the south Florida market."
Sperber adds, "Tropics North has worked with a wide range of customers, including some of the best property management companies, developers and builders throughout Florida. Furthermore, their presence and reputation in the Bahamas gives ValleyCrest a new landscape construction capability in a market we have yet to truly penetrate."