On February 23-25, STIHL joined landscape business owner and entrepreneur Marty Grunder, The Grow Group and more than 700 landscape professionals in Nashville, Tenn. at the GROW! 2022 Annual Conference. The STIHL sponsorship focused on industry education and assisting The Grow Group in its mission to help its members improve their businesses and increase their profitability.
“At the heart of the STIHL brand is our desire to help our customers with the products, programs, and service they need to make their work easier, safer and more efficient,” said Roger Phelps, STIHL Inc. corporate communications manager. “We support Marty Grunder and The Grow Group because they provide innovative programming, peer-groups and real-world resources to help business owners and their teams succeed.”
The event featured sessions focused on solutions to the challenges green business owners and their teams face, covering everything from fleet and equipment to human resources. GROW! is led by entrepreneur Marty Grunder. An unusual combination of a full-time landscape professional and leading green-industry coach—Marty is uniquely positioned to deliver real-world, real-time guidance to clients.
“The goal of The Grow Group and conferences like this is to create a community of success-minded landscape professionals who can learn from each other to advance and better run our businesses,” said Grunder, president and CEO of The Grow Group. “Working with companies like STIHL that back and believe in this process is key to cultivating this community. We are so excited to have STIHL be a part of it.”
STIHL hosted the opening reception and led a breakout educational session that provided information and technical data to help landscapers make better decisions when considering adding battery-powered equipment to their operations. An onsite product demonstration showcased the latest STIHL professional battery products and charging solutions and included an opportunity for all GROW! attendees to demo the units.
About The Grow Group
Led by Marty Grunder, The Grow Group is a premier consulting firm for landscape professionals, providing innovative programming, peer-groups, and real-world resources to help business owners and their teams succeed. Everything their professionals teach is tested in their “living laboratory,” the business Marty began as a teenager and still leads today, Grunder Landscaping Company.
About STIHL Inc.
STIHL Inc. products are sold through a network of more than 10,000 authorized local STIHL Dealers from coast to coast. Located in Virginia Beach, Va., STIHL Inc., the U.S. affiliate of the global STIHL Group, exports to more than 80 countries around the world; and most STIHL products sold in America are also made in America of U.S. and foreign materials. For more information or for the name of a local STIHL Dealer, call toll free 1-800-GO STIHL (1-800-467-8445) or visit STIHLusa.com.
STIHL Inc. is pleased to support the work of Independent We Stand, the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA), National Association of Landscape Professionals, the National Association of State Park Directors, and the North American Retail and Paint Association.
