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March 2016 Ground Gains03-02-16 | News

March 2016 Ground Gains
Mergers, Acquisitions, Expansions

Near the end of last year, Kubota Tractor started building its new U.S. headquarters in Grapevine, Texas. The 125,000-square-foot administration building and the 68,000-square-foot research and development facility will be more strategically located to the company's manufacturing, assembly and distribution facilities in Georgia and Kansas than their present site in Torrance, California.

In a recently announced deal, Hydro-Scape Products' 17 locations in Southern California that provide irrigation and landscape products to its customers have been acquired by SiteOne Landscape Supply, bringing that company's total store count to over 460 locations across North America.

SCG Partners has acquired the assets of three landscape maintenance companies in Melbourne, Florida. The combined companies are Green Leaf Landscaping & Irrigation, M&M Professional Grounds Maintenance and A New Look Lawn Care. The combined businesses will operate under the name Green Leaf Landscaping & Irrigation.

Invisible Structures' long-time Kansas reselling partner, Carter-Waters, will now be carrying the product line in Missouri. Carter-Waters has been a construction industry specialist since 1922.