Trades Talk Weekly Update: Benchmarking Profitability and Building Your 2026 Strategy
This week Justin breaks down one of the most important tools in the landscape industry: the annual Benchmark Report from Greg Herring and The Herring Group. Hundreds of companies contribute real financial data each year and the results show where the industry is winning, where it is tightening, and what top performers do differently.
Justin unpacks the shift from the old twelve percent net profit target to today’s new normal of ten percent. He explains why inflation and market dynamics pushed this change and why profit alone does not always tell the real story of customer experience or long…
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