We built it and they’re coming… again! As anticipation builds for the encore to last year’s MLB at Field of Dreams game, BrightView (NYSE: BV), the Official Field Consultant of Major League Baseball, is deep in the thick of a Dyersville, Iowa cornfield fine tuning and carefully manicuring the major league field inspired by the beloved 1989 film.

With the second installment of the Field of Dreams classic scheduled for Aug. 11, BrightView is again working with MLB to bring this vision to life and ensure the field conforms to major league playing standards. And the sequel, featuring the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs, promises to be just as epic.

Since MLB announced the Field of Dreams series in 2019, BrightView has worked with MLB to draw up plans and carve out and maintain an MLB caliber ballfield in a cornfield adjacent to the Dyersville farm where the movie was filmed and the original field still stands. In fact, the distance from the movie site’s homeplate to the MLB field’s homeplate is exactly 1,000 feet.

Led by Murray Cook, President of BrightView’s Sports Turf division, BrightView performed all site work and constructed the ballfield, bullpens, fencing, and foul poles, as well as oversaw installation of the outfield wall, backstop net, and various player-related areas. The team also managed the planting of the corn that is part of the iconic outfield background. 

“This was an incredibly satisfying project,” said Cook. “Our goal was to build a field that not only replicates the Field of Dreams movie magic, but make it so players are literally stepping out of the cornfield onto a first-class major league field that has been transplanted in the middle of an Iowa farm. We built it, and they came.”

Come gametime, BrightView’s 12 person grounds crew, which includes eight native Iowans, is responsible for mowing, painting, and lining the field, as well as raking the base paths, grooming the infield, and changing bases between innings.

“MLB at Field of Dreams exemplifies BrightView’s passion for and commitment to helping bring grandiose ideas, improbable concepts, and even movie dreams to life,” said Andrew Masterman, BrightView President and Chief Executive Officer. “Each project we work on with Major League Baseball is unique and presents its own challenges, but Murray and his crew are the best in the business and they always rise to the occasion.”

Field of Dreams Field Facts

• 100,000 square feet of sod was laid
• 30,000 cubic yards of material was excavated
• 4,000 tons of sand and 2,000 tons of pea gravel was installed under the new grass
• 300 pounds of grass seed was used
• 159 acres of corn, standing 10 to 12 feet tall, surround the field
• 8 Iowans work on BrightView's gameday grounds crew

BrightView is the nation’s leading commercial landscape company, providing a wide range of services, from design, maintenance, and snow and ice removal to tree care, golf course maintenance, sports turf, and more.

The Field of Dreams game is yet another special project in a long line of celebrated games that BrightView has assisted MLB. Following completion of this game, BrightView will again oversee field management for MLB’s Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pa., where the sports turf team has maintained historic Bowman Field since the inaugural contest was played in 2017. The company has also worked with MLB to develop, construct, and maintain fields for the Fort Bragg Game (2016), London (2019) and Japan (2019) series, and the historic exhibition game played in Havana, Cuba (2016), among other notable games.

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The National Business Research Institute (NBRI) is pleased to once again welcome BrightView, the nation’s leading commercial landscaping company, to the NBRI Circle of Excellence! This is the fourth consecutive year that BrightView’s Snow Services team has won the prestigious award.

The NBRI Circle of Excellence Award recognizes organizations that demonstrate high levels of Customer Experience through rigorous, scientific, psychological research of their customers. Organizations must score at or above Stretch Performance at the 75th percentile of their industry.

BrightView is compared to – or benchmarked against – its industry, which is a subset of NBRI’s Big Data of 10.5 billion survey answers. BrightView is performing at the 82nd percentile for Snow/Ice services. NBRI commends the leadership of BrightView for their commitment to scientific, psychological research of its customers and continuous improvement of its customer experience.

“At BrightView, we take pride in delivering best-in-class services and results for our customers,” said Jamie Gollotto, BrightView President, Seasonal Maintenance. “Not only is customer satisfaction a key success factor in every aspect of our business, it’s at the heart of what we do, day-in and day-out. We are honored to be recognized, once again, by NBRI for our commitment to excellence in Snow Services and I thank our team for continually striving to improve and enhance the customer experience.”

BrightView embraces the best practice of continually assessing customer experience, and targeting the variables that drive satisfaction, including job satisfaction, management style, culture, and fairness. NBRI’s root cause analysis, including linear regressions and random forest models of BrightView’s raw data, provide BrightView with the keen insight and actions necessary for the continuous improvement of customer thinking, behavior, and experience.

“Great business leaders manage the people, processes, and products of their organizations. They understand that the rich information NBRI obtains from their customers enables them to manage how people experience their organization in a highly accurate, effective, and targeted manner. Those experiences drive the financial performance of every organization, whether for the better or for the worse. Understanding thinking and managing experiences for maximum performance is what we do at NBRI,” said Dr. Jan G. West, Ph.D., CEO & Psychologist at NBRI. “BrightView’s high achievement of earning this prestigious award is a direct result of BrightView’s dedication to measuring and improving their customer experience.”

About NBRI

NBRI conducts psychological Employee, Customer, and Market Research for businesses, and uses this data to help organizations leverage these human factors to make improvements to operations and strategy. With its extensive experience across all industries, NBRI’s research teams bring their clients a combination of deep industry knowledge and expert advice. NBRI’s mission is to help their clients set new standards of excellence in their industries. NBRI product offerings, such as benchmarking and deep, inferential analyses like random forest with artificial intelligence and machine learning, ensure NBRI clients focus on the most impactful issues in the most effective ways.

As part of its ongoing effort to convert its fleet of vehicles to electric, BrightView, the nation’s leading commercial landscaping company, today announced the purchase of 100 electric-powered Chevrolet Bolt EUVs that will be put into service across the country, beginning this month. With the deployment of these new cars, BrightView’s management fleet is now comprised of nearly 400 electric and hybrid vehicles.

Over the next four years, the company’s aim is to convert its fleet of 3,000 field managers’ vehicles to electric and hybrid. Today’s announcement – and similar enterprise efforts – is a part of BrightView’s overall environmental sustainability strategy of reducing its carbon footprint and becoming carbon neutral by 2035.

“As a company dedicated to developing, designing, and maintaining the best landscapes on Earth, we are continually seeking sustainable solutions that minimize our impact on the environment,” said Andrew Masterman, BrightView President and Chief Executive Officer. “The addition of electric and hybrid vehicles is yet another example of our commitment to investing in the future of our planet and achieving our environmental goals.”

BrightView’s Sustainability Journey

BrightView’s quest toward carbon neutrality began more than 10 years ago and continues today by incorporating sustainable practices into its everyday operations to help protect and preserve the environment. These measures include, but are not limited to:

• Continuing to electrify its fleet of 11,000 vehicles to reduce emissions

• Converting gas and two-cycle landscaping equipment to battery power

• Utilizing smart technology in irrigation systems to reduce water usage

• Moving its real estate infrastructure to green and sustainable energy

Did You Know?

• BrightView is partnering with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant 300,000 trees throughout the U.S. by January 2023. These trees are in addition to the more than 80,000 trees and millions of shrubs, ornamentals, and grass BrightView plants annually.

• BrightView provides water-efficient landscaping services and partners with clients to reduce their water and energy use. The mix of smart irrigation strategy and technologies – along with client education – contribute to overall water efficient practices.

For more information on BrightView’s commitment to sustainability, visit www.BrightView.com.

BrightView Holdings, Inc.(NYSE: BV) will hold its third quarter fiscal year 2022 earnings conference call on August 4, 2022, at 10 a.m. EDT. A press release detailing the Company’s third quarter results will be issued prior to the call. Instructions to join the conference call are provided below:

Conference telephone number:

This call will be recorded:

Webcast can be accessed here:

BrightView President and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Masterman, together with Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer John Feenan, will host the conference call and webcast. The press release, earnings presentation and live webcast will also be accessible on the Company's investor website.

BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV), the leading commercial landscaping services company in the United States, today announced the acquisition of SGS Hawaii, a commercial landscaping company headquartered in Wailuku, Hawaii, with operations on Maui, the Big Island, and Kauai. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 1995, SGS Hawaii is a premier resort landscaping company with a loyal customer base in the resort industry. With more than 100 landscape professionals and a predominantly electric fleet, SGS focuses primarily on the hotel and resort sector, with services ranging from grounds management and lawn maintenance to irrigation, tree trimming, arbor care, soil testing, and fertilization.

“We are excited to welcome SGS Hawaii’s team members to the BrightView family, as we continue to grow our presence in Hawaii and execute upon our successful long-term acquisition growth strategy,” said Andrew Masterman, BrightView President and Chief Executive Officer. “SGS’ expertise in the hotel and resort industry strengthens our portfolio, while its commitment to reducing carbon emissions through the use of electric powered equipment is the perfect complement to our environmental sustainability strategy.”

“SGS Hawaii has established a reputation across Hawaii’s resort industry for using battery powered lawn equipment to minimize noise and emissions and for our wide use of effective organic fertilizers,” said Sidney Sparkman, RME, President of SGS Hawaii. “BrightView offers our company a national stage to demonstrate that landscape management can and should be stewards of the environment – this is SGS ' platform and BrightView’s vision! The BrightView Ohana brings significant opportunities and resources for our staff, which in turn will further enhance the client experience.”

SGS Hawaii is the second Hawaiian landscaping firm BrightView has purchased this year, joining Honolulu-based Performance Landscapes, which was acquired in January.

BrightView Development Services has been a licensed landscape and irrigation contractor in Hawaii since 2008. In addition to renovating the Hualalai Four Seasons in Kona following a tsunami in 2011, BrightView also restored the irrigation system for the Hilton Waikoloa Village and Resort and performed landscape architecture work at the Four Seasons Maui.

BrightView Golf Maintenance, the premier provider for golf course maintenance services, recently added to its industry-leading portfolio of 29 municipal partners by signing a partnership agreement with the City of Gainesville at its 18-hole Ironwood Golf Club, located in north-central Florida.

BrightView will be responsible for all aspects of course maintenance, including turf, irrigation, and equipment, with its primary focus on improving golf course conditions.

“This is a great opportunity for BrightView to demonstrate its core capabilities on improving playing surfaces and overall course conditions,” said Terry McGuire, Vice President of BrightView Golf Maintenance. “We are looking forward to meeting player expectations by implementing BrightView’s comprehensive prescriptive-based agronomic plan.”

Located in the hometown of the University of Florida and its Florida Gators sports teams, Ironwood Golf Course is an 18-hole municipal course with an outstanding layout sculptured around century-old pines and shimmering lakes, contoured fairways, and strategically placed bunkers. The course is owned by the City of Gainesville.

“We are extremely excited to have BrightView join the Ironwood family,” said Jeff Cardozo, Ironwood Golf Course Manager. “Their research, attention to detail about the golf course, and their willingness to continue our Audubon certification made it a no-brainer when looking for a maintenance company to provide their services to the city of Gainesville. From day one, they have jumped in and implemented many things that show their vision for the course and we look forward to joining their vast portfolio of well-maintained golf courses.”

With 40 years of experience and more than 80 partner courses, BrightView Golf Maintenance has refined the art, science, and operations of golf course maintenance to bring their clients better playing conditions, reductions in cost, and improved crew training.

Continuing its mission as the premier provider of golf course maintenance services, BrightView Golf Maintenance added to its industry-leading portfolio by signing a partnership agreement with the Southport residential community on Cape Cod to maintain their 9-hole golf course. This marks BrightView’s ninth residential community golf course and fourth in the Northeast.

BrightView will be responsible for all aspects of course maintenance, including turf, irrigation, and equipment, with a main priority to always provide the finest golf course conditions.

“While experienced in all types of golf facilities, BrightView has a proven niche partnering with residential communities,” said Vince Gilmartin, Vice President of BrightView Golf Maintenance. “We understand the unique passion residents have for their golf courses in these communities and look forward to leveraging our customized planning and processes to help Southport succeed, especially in terms of conditions that drive member and resident satisfaction.”

Southport is an elegant 55+ community developed specifically for active adults located on Cape Cod in Mashpee, Mass. Residents enjoy a low-maintenance lifestyle with beautifully designed homes. A clubhouse with well-appointed amenities, such as indoor and outdoor heated pools, a fitness center, aerobics room, tennis courts, and the golf course, offer homeowners endless opportunities to stay socially and physically active. In addition to maintaining the golf course, BrightView was also selected to handle all the landscape maintenance throughout the Southport community.

One of the key reasons Southport has been acclaimed as one of the top retirement communities in Massachusetts is because of their exceptional golf course. It has been described as one of “the real gems of all Cape Cod golf courses.”

With 40 years of experience and more than 80 partner courses, BrightView has refined the art, science, and operations of golf course maintenance to bring their clients better playing conditions, reductions in cost, and improved crew training.

BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV) will hold its second quarter fiscal year 2022 earnings conference call on May 5, 2022, at 10 a.m. EDT. A press release detailing the Company’s second quarter results will be issued prior to the call. Instructions to join the conference call are provided below:

Webcast can be accessed here:

BrightView President and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Masterman, together with Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer John Feenan, will host the conference call and webcast. The press release, earnings presentation and live webcast will also be accessible on the Company's investor website.

BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to repurchase the remaining 5.9 million shares of BrightView common stock held by MSD Partners and affiliates at a purchase price of $12.33 per share, representing a 6 percent discount from the NYSE official closing price of BrightView common stock on March 11, 2022.

The total purchase price for the shares will be approximately $72.8 million and will be funded from cash and cash equivalents on hand, as well as borrowings under the Company’s credit facilities. The transaction, which was made in connection with BrightView’s share repurchase program announced on December 6, 2021, is expected to be completed on April 4, 2022.

“We would like to thank MSD for their long-term partnership with BrightView,” said Andrew Masterman, BrightView President and CEO. “Since 2006, they have provided support and guidance while we have executed on our growth strategy and transitioned into a publicly-listed company.”

BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV), the leading commercial landscaping services company in the United States, today announced the acquisition of TDE Group, a snow removal and commercial landscaping company headquartered in suburban Detroit with operations in Windsor, Ontario. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

TDE Group is the 34th firm to be purchased by BrightView under its successful long-term acquisition growth strategy.

“BrightView continues to execute on our ‘strong-on-strong’ acquisition program in which we actively seek out exceptional businesses to expand our existing operations in attractive markets. Bringing TDE under the BrightView umbrella allows us to grow in a profitable market and bring highly trained and motivated team members into the company,” said Andrew Masterman, BrightView President and CEO.

In addition to snow removal, TDE Group provides landscaping maintenance services in the Detroit/Windsor metropolitan areas and beyond. Among TDE’s most prominent clients are auto manufacturers and the Detroit Metro Airport. TDE employs more than 125 people.

“The addition of TDE Group and their skilled crews is a great enhancement to our operations in the Upper Midwest,” said Jamie Gollotto, President of BrightView Maintenance Services Seasonal Division. “Their expertise in both winter services and landscaping makes them a perfect year-round complement for our existing branches in this important region.”

Eddie Conte, TDE’s President and CEO said, “TDE Group is happy to have become part of the BrightView family. This partnership will provide our employees with significant growth opportunities both in the USA and Canada. Our clients will continue to enjoy our meticulous self-performed approach to snow removal with a larger depth and breadth of landscape service offerings that far exceed what TDE could have done on its own.”