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Happy Birthday Spring-Green Lawn Care!!

I sure wish I wasn't old enough to remember this company in its earliest days, but alas, I AM!!!  This company was founded 35 years ago today by a wonderful man named Rick Gretz.  Like all of us in franchising he struggled to build a substantial business. In 1987 Tom Hofer, a successful franchisee in the system came aboard as CEO.  The characters of Rick and Tom permeate the whole company and its culture to this day.  Good people helping other good people run great franchises.  With the help of wonderful execs like Barry Matthews, James Young and Brad Rusin, not to mention the new leadership of Ted Hofer, Tom's son, this company has turned into one of the most quietly successful stories in franchising....Happy Birthday/Anniversary you guys!  

2012 off to a good start for Franchising

After a slow 2 weeks during the holidays we watched as many franchisors declared 2012 is starting off for them so much better than last year at the same time. Great news. Franchising and this blogger have weathered many recessions in the past 30 years but none quite as decimating as this one. Once the housing market is hurting we all are! Just returned from Pillar To Post convention and CertaPro Painters 2 weeks ago and there was lots of joy all around. Awesome, hard working, middle class franchisees all and they seem to have a much more down to earth and less stressful attitude and existence.