LESCO Opens Nine Service Centers in First Quarter

One of nine LESCO Service Centers recently opened. Fifteen to 20 locations are planed to open in the coming months.

Cleveland, Ohio?EUR??,,????'??+LESCO, which provides products for turf care professionals, has opened nine new LESCO Service Centers in the first three months of 2004. LESCO now has 256 service centers across the country. The nine new service centers are located in:

• Brookfield, Conn.
• Kaukauna, Wis.
• Wilmington, N.C.
• Matthews, N.C.
• Pleasant Valley, Mo.
• Collinsville, Ill.
• Lewis Center, Ohio
• Millersville, Md.
• Austin, Texas

?EUR??,,????'??We opened 21 LESCO Service Centers last year, and those stores certainly outperformed our expectations,?EUR??,,????'?? remarked Michael DiMino, LESCO president and chief executive officer. ?EUR??,,????'??We are convinced that the lawn care, landscape, golf course and pest control industries offer considerable growth opportunities for us, and opening new locations is an obvious way for us to pursue this growth and better serve our customers.?EUR??,,????'??

DiMino added that 15 to 20 locations are planed to open in the coming months.

For more information, visit www.lesco.com or call 1-800-321-5325.