TruGreen

TruGreen Limited Partnership
Company typePrivate
IndustryLawn care services
Pest control
Tree care
Founded1969 in Troy, Ohio (as ChemLawn)
1973 in Troy, Michigan (as ChemGreen)
HeadquartersMemphis, Tennessee
Key people
Kurt Kane (CEO)
Websitewww.trugreen.com

TruGreen, originally known as ChemLawn and later as TruGreen ChemLawn, is the largest lawn treatment company in the United States.[1][2][3] The company was founded in 1969 and provides lawn care and tree and shrub care treatments on a subscription basis. The treatments and services include weed killing, moss suppression, pesticides, aeration, overseeding, and fertilizing. The company does not offer lawn mowing service nor sod as a sellable service. Tree and shrub services as well as several insect control programs are offered by TruGreen. The TruGreen brand is also used for lawn services in Canada through a Mississauga, Ontario–based company named Greenlawn Ltd. that does business as TruGreen.[4][5] The TruGreen brand, under Servicemaster is also used in the United Kingdom.[6]

The company history includes several changes of ownership and the absorption of other lawn servicing operations including ChemGreen (originally founded in 1974) and Scotts LawnService (originally founded as Emerald Green Lawn Service before its purchase in 1997 by the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company).

  1. ^ "TruGreen (official website)". TruGreen. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  2. ^ "TruGreen/ChemLawn: What Happened?". Pure Green. October 23, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  3. ^ Palmer, Robert. "What Ever Happened To ChemLawn?". Weed Pro. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  4. ^ "TruGreen". TruGreen Canada official website. GreenLawn, Ltd. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  5. ^ "Greenlawn, Ltd". Dun & Bradstreet. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  6. ^ "TruGreen Professional Lawn Care – British Franchise Association". www.thebfa.org. Retrieved February 22, 2024.