How Private Equity Is Consolidating the Landscaping Industry

The Buyout Show with Fexingo: Private Equity, Roll-Ups, and Business Acquisitions · Jun 10, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Private equity has rolled up everything from dental clinics to data brokers. This episode: why landscaping is the next frontier. Lucas walks through the economic logic — recurring revenue, low churn, fragmented mom-and-pop operators — and Luna pushes back on the human cost. They zero in on BrightView Holdings, the giant born from a 2014 merger of ValleyCrest and Brickman, now controlling roughly 15 percent of the $130 billion commercial landscaping market. But the real story is the middle: the family-owned firms that sell for four to six times EBITDA and the regional consolidators like…