Biggest Tree Company in England??

[TGB]

Fountains have gone bust..? Dear me, that says something but I'm not sure what.

[Dorset Treeman]

Fountains have gone bust..? Dear me, that says something but I'm not sure what.

 

 

Weren't they bought out by OCS group?

[Kenty]

Bartletts are a pretty big firm.

I went up against Gristwood & Toms some years ago for a local council contract when I had aspirations of grandeur.

They got it, which is when I decided I couldn't be bothered to waste my time competing with the big boys.

[K.T.S Tom]

I think fountains have been bought out a few years ago. Not heard of gristwood and toms!

[jaime bray]

For actual employment of arborists doing amenity tree work I reckon 'City suburban' have quite a few on the tools arbs

[hamdogg]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heley-Tree-Care/399813760067116 think these are

[wills-mill]

There are a lot of Fountains vans running around our neck of the woods at the moment. Haven't seen them for ages...

 

Anyway, we all know that 'Tree Surgery, Fencing, Driveways, Tarmacing' Ltd are the biggest firm in the land

[ReubenHayes]

Fountains won a lot of contracts in recent times (mainly from Glendales), they went bust (well one arm of the company).

 

Connaught them brought up the contracts and went into Grounds and trees for LA, but they went into receivership.

 

I think they all under priced each other in the hope gold would appear from trees! Once they got all the contracts they all realised they would never make a profit.

 

I think they put all the unprofitable ones into one company name and left them! OCS acquired them and said to the clients pay more or drop the contract, they now manage some of them so I guess some Councils said ok.

 

Fountains went back to site clearance, power lines etc where I guess is where consistent work comes from.

 

As for big players, Glendales were big, but you don't see or hear much from them. G&T did try the midlands and north, but seem to be more south of Birmingham now. City Sub are growing but only in the London area.

 

Amey are also growing and growing! they have won a big contract in Birmingham and do a lot of the tree work now (as part of the super contract). They also do a lot of Highway agency roads and motorways, and I think they are also doing more tree works there as well. They have also just won Staffordshire so will have to see what they do there as well.

[Loler UK]

fountains have entered administration a number of times, with new owners buying them sans le debt just days after the administration is filed, allot of contractors didn't see a peny of their money, they held allot of contracts but farmed allot of it out to subbies, and they joined the long line of debtors going cap in hand to the administrators, one client of mine was just considering which tree to tie his noose to, thankfully he changed his mind and is still with us today. I think the biggest firm should be measured by the number of staff on the books IMO that way if the firm is unsustainable they get paid before the debtors and before the revenue

Edited March 5, 2015 by Loler UK

[tree79]

I beleive Gristwood and Toms have just taken on the Bristol contract too. I used to be on that contract with Fountains. I thought they went bust?

 

nope fountains are part of OCS now.

 

Thought midland forestry had that contract