Asplundh Tree Expert Company
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Private | |
Industry | Utility Line Clearance and Infrastructure Services |
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Founded | August 28, 1928 |
Founder | Asplundh Brothers Griffith, Lester, and Carl Hjalmar, Sr. |
Headquarters | 708 Blair Mill Road, , United States |
Area served | United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia |
Key people |
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Revenue | $4.7B (2021) |
Number of employees | 34,000+ |
Divisions | UtiliCon Solutions, Ltd. |
Subsidiaries | Asplundh Brush Control Co. |
Website | https://asplundh.com/ |
Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC is an
History
The Asplundh Tree Expert Co. was founded in 1928 in Pennsylvania by brothers Griffith, Lester and Carl Asplundh, members of a Swedish-American family who combined their educations and experience in arboriculture, electrical engineering and finance.[2] The company specialized in "trimming trees around power and telephone lines."[2] It was the first company to specialize in utility line clearance and vegetation management instead of residential services.[3][4]
In 1940, the first issue of The Asplundh TREE magazine was issued to crews; the magazine is still being published.[2] By this time the company had expanded from Pennsylvania to the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic states. In 1956, a subsidiary company, Asplundh Brush Control Co., was established.
In 1990, Asplundh acquired New York based B & J Maintenance Co., Inc, as well as L. Fulcher Electric, which was over five small clearance firms in France which became Asplundh's French subsidiary. Also during this year, the company expanded to New Zealand, acquiring Electrix Limited, which changed its name to Electrix Asplundh.[1] By 1994 it had become the US's largest firm in utility clearance and one of the nation's largest privately held companies.[5]
Lisa (Lemole) Oz, the wife of former Pennsylvania senatorial candidate and television personality Mehmet Oz, is the maternal granddaughter of one of the cofounders.
Illegal hiring
In 2017, the company pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge and was ordered to pay a $95 million fine, the largest ever in an immigration case. This was after an investigation by
References
- ^ a b Profile at answers.com
- ^ a b c Our History at asplundh.com
- S2CID 149450332. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-07-13.
- ^ About Archived August 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine at Asplundh.com
- ^ Chung, Sharon (July 8, 1994). "Strong Family Roots Help Asplundh Grow as Tree Expert Business". Los Angeles Times. p. 7.
- ^ ""Tree company hit with $95 million fine for illegal hiring"". CBS News.
- ^ "Asplundh" (PDF). September 19, 2017.
- ^ "Asplundh Tree Experts, Co. pays largest civil settlement agreement ever levied by ICE". www.ice.gov. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2022.