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Rooted In Expertise Since 1880
Explore The Timeline Of 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 History Below.
A Future Focused on Employees
- 2025: The 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 SEED (Science, Employee Education and Development) Campus is projected to open.
- 2024: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 celebrates 45 years of employee-ownership. The company employs 12,000+ employees across North America with a total annual revenue of more than $1.6 billion.
- 2024: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 announces the opening of its biochar facility in East Dundee, Illinois. The operation will recycle wood waste from client properties and turn it into the environmentally friendly soil additive, biochar, while integrating 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 employees into a growing and innovative area of environmental sustainability.
- 2023: Significant upgrades are completed at 亚星游戏(中国区)官网鈥檚 corporate headquarters in Kent, Ohio: the addition of a 38,400 square-foot third wing and complete renovations within the original two wings.
- 2022: Crews break ground at the new 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 SEED (Science, Employee Education and Development) Campus. The 190+ acre property across the street from the corporate headquarters will be home to specialized training and research facilities.
- 2020: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 partners with Certified Employee-Owned (Certified EO), the leading certification program for employee-owned companies in America.
- 2020: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网鈥檚 Fleet Services begins introducing electric vehicles with Teslas (2020) and Ford F-150 Lightnings two years later (2022), demonstrating an investment in sustainability and employee resources.
- 2018: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 launches the Green Leaders program to recognize employees鈥� volunteer activities. In the first year of recording, employees compiled 19,000+ hours to more than 600 organizations.
- 2017: Karl Warnke retires as CEO after 37 years of service to the 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Company. Pat Covey is named President and CEO.听
- 2016: Pat Covey is elected president and chief operating officer.
- 2012: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 management establishes Vision 20/20, a strategic plan to guide business strategy. Strategic planning continues today with Vision 2030, 亚星游戏(中国区)官网鈥檚 current strategic plan.
Employee Ownership, New Service Lines, Acquisitions
- 2008: Amid the Great Recession, 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 has a record-breaking year for revenue, bolstered by the two largest acquisitions in company history: The Care of Trees and Wolf Tree. 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 has made more than 70 acquisitions since 2008; prior to then, it had made at least 60.
- 2006: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 partners with the USDA and others to begin development of the i-Tree庐 software suite to quantify the benefits of trees.
- 2001: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 navigates the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and in the years that followed, employees would work on related sites and memorials. 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 was contracted to re-landscape Pentagon grounds in Washington, D.C. following the terrorist attacks. 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 employees were also involved in fundraising and establishing the landscape of the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania.
- 1999: Karl Warnke is elected president and chief operating officer with two decades of 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 service.
- 1995: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Resource Group is established to provide an array of services to clients, including natural resource consulting, tree inventories, utility vegetation management and more. The same year, 亚星游戏(中国区)官网's Commercial Landscape Services (CLS) service line is established.
- 1985: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 opens its new corporate headquarters in Kent, Ohio. That same year, Doug Cowan, who played a crucial role in the employee acquisition, is elected president and chief operating officer.
- 1982: The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is introduced, making it easier for employees to acquire shares through payroll deduction鈥攁t a 15 percent discount.
- 1979: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 becomes employee-owned as the employees of the company, led by Jack Joy, acquire 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree from the family.
- 1977: Jack Joy, a 30-plus year 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 employee, is elected president and chief operating officer at the same time the 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 family announces plans to sell the company.
A Growing Enterprise
- 1976: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 is granted a patent for developing Arbor Green, a revolutionary liquid tree fertilizer.
- 1969: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree incorporates the 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree Surgery Company in California as a subsidiary.
- 1969: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 plays a role in the historical journey that first landed humans on the moon. Crews pruned trees along a 30-mile route to the engine test site in California鈥檚 Santa Susana Mountains so the enormous Saturn II moon rocket would not be obstructed as it traveled on the back of a flatbed trailer. This work made it possible for Apollo XI to land safely later that year.
- 1967: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 opens the Kent Shop in Kent, Ohio, to service the company鈥檚 rapidly expanding equipment fleet.
- 1954: The new 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Technical Service Center opens in Kent. As home to research and development, the new facility also houses D.I.T.S. and is the predecessor to the 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Institute.
- 1953: Bucket trucks and brush hogs are introduced to 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 crews. These advancements come on the heels of the advent of the power chainsaw, brush chipper, chemical brush control and mist blowing, all of which were introduced to the tree care industry by the close of the last decade.
- 1946:听Martin L. 亚星游戏(中国区)官网, Sr., dies. His son, Martin L. 亚星游戏(中国区)官网, Jr., becomes president at age 28 just months after returning from three years of service in WWII.
- 1934:听The company begins to recover from the effects of the Depression by turning a modest profit after three straight years of losses. In the same year, Martin L. 亚星游戏(中国区)官网, Sr., is elected Ohio鈥檚 fifty-third governor.
- 1933:听The throes of the Great Depression render 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree unable to make payroll. Kent office employees were put on half pay; some employees went weeks without a paycheck.
- 1930: 亚星游戏(中国区)官网鈥檚 Canadian operations are founded.
- 1928:听Wellington 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 founds the 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree Surgery Company in California.
A Corporation is Born
- 1921:听亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree moves into the utility line clearance market with a contract for Northern Ohio Power and Light Company.
- 1920:听Paul 亚星游戏(中国区)官网, Martin鈥檚 younger brother, introduces mechanization into the business, improving efficiency through his adaptation of pneumatic compressor technology. The compressors improved fertilization and cavity repair methods in the field, increasing efficiency and profitability. Paul would use his many patents to later found the 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Compressor Company.
- 1909:听John 亚星游戏(中国区)官网, as the first president, files the articles of incorporation for The 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree Expert Company along with his son, Martin L. 亚星游戏(中国区)官网, Sr., who is named general manager and treasurer.
- 1908:听The 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Institute of Tree Sciences (D.I.T.S.) is founded to train employees in the science of tree care; the inaugural class graduates in 1909.
- 1901:听亚星游戏(中国区)官网 publishes his book 鈥淭he Tree Doctor鈥� outlining his scientific methods for healing and caring for America鈥檚 trees.
- 1880:听John 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 founds The 亚星游戏(中国区)官网 Tree Expert Company.