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Ground Gains07-25-16 | News

Ground Gains
Mergers, Acquisitions, Expansions

An agreement has been reached by the John Deere Company and Proxibid, an online marketplace of high-value items, that will allow John Deere dealers to efficiently designate equipment for sale on that marketplace and on eBay. This will reportedly expose the equipment to more than 157 million targeted buyers around the world.

Ennis-Flint, a manufacturer of pavement markings and traffic safety solutions, was sold by its parent company Brazos Private Equity Partners, LLC to an affiliate of Olympus Partners. With headquarters in Thomasville, North Carolina, the manufacturer has 20 facilities located across five continents.

TaskEasy.com, which connects homeowners, renters and property managers with landscape maintenance contractors in their area, announced that they have received $12 million in financing in a deal led by Delta Electronics Capital with participation from other investors including Moderne Ventures

Aerial access equipment manufacturer JLG Industries Inc. has opened an 11,200 square foot service center in Hagerstown, Maryland, to help better assist its Northeast customer base. The facility joins the company's other service centers in Houston and Riverside, California.