Total Landscape Care Digital Magazine
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landscaper of the year finalist a Friday. By the following Monday, the company was up and running full time, and according to Hanson, they have never missed a day since. "The first five years I grew the company by myself, and it was strictly landscape construction," Hanson says. "We became what I would consider quite successful in the first five years." In 2010, Hanson Land- scape (hansonlandscape. com) started offering main- tenance after bringing on partner, vice president and brother, Brandon Hanson. "We went from five guys to instantly 20 overnight," Hanson says. "It just blew up." Around that time, Hanson Landscape brought on past client, Ryan Kovarik, as co-owner to its newly launched sister construc- tion company. Kovarik left his job as a commercial builder and approached Hanson about starting a construction company. Together, Hanson, Brandon and Kovarik launched the construction company as partners. Once the construction company started showing signs of success, Hanson offered Kovarik a partner- ship with Hanson Landscape to keep everything owned by the same people. "One of our landscape customers, who happens to be the owner of several auto dealerships, was getting ready to build two new massive dealer- ships," Hanson says. "We were able to secure incredible projects for both companies with those buildings. The construction company was able to design and build the dealerships, with Hanson Landscape following up with landscape design/ build on them, as well." Since its inception, the landscaping company has consistently grown, and by the first 12 months of the new partnerships, Hanson and his team had to start hiring management. By the second year, the company grew between 35 and 40 percent with the addition of 10 more employees. To date, the landscaping company consists of 50 crewmembers and offers design/build, construction, maintenance, irrigation, water features, aquatic maintenance, erosion control and snow removal for commercial properties and design/build installs for residential. "In a matter of three years, we went from two trucks and one skid steer to 30 trucks, 19 skid steers, two loaders, three tractors and 50 mowers," Hanson says. 4 0 To t a l L a n d s c a p e C a r e . c o m J U N E 2 014 Hanson Landscape takes on challenges with its projects, including creating a 1,200-square- foot paver patio with 120 tons of granite boulders (top) and a lake-front property featuring a 35-foot tall waterfall that pushes 20,000 gallons per hour (right).