Eliot landscaping business continues to grow with purchase of retiring competitor
Courtesy / Piscataqua Landscaping & Tree Service
Justin Gamester, president and CEO of Piscataqua Landscaping & Tree Service, is shown at left with retiring Mick Sheffield, founder of Labrie Associates.
For the second time, a southern Maine landscaping company has scooped up a retiring competitor, and this time the acquisition creates a new branch along the New Hampshire seacoast.
Eliot-based Piscataqua Landscaping & Tree Service purchased Design & Landscapes by Labrie Associates from now-former owner Mick Sheffield earlier this month, according to a company news release. Terms were not disclosed.
“My team will all be moving over as Piscataqua Landscaping & Tree Service employees, with many more opportunities to learn and grow in the industry,” Sheffield said in a statement. “It was extremely important that my team be taken care of, and this fit was right for all of us.”
For Piscataqua, the “expansion of a seacoast New Hampshire location will enable [the landscaper] to provide even greater services to our seacoast clients,” the statement added. The New Hampshire company's territory has stretched from just south of Portland down to the northeastern Boston suburbs; Piscataqua already operates from Kennebunkport to northern Massachusetts.
A message left for Piscataqua Landscaping seeking further comment on the acquisition was not immediately answered.
The purchase is the Eliot landscaper’s second acquisition in as many years. In January 2021, the company purchased Jacqueline Nooney Landscape Inc., founded in 1984, for an undisclosed price. A dozen employees transitioned from Jacqueline Nooney to Piscataqua.
At that time, Piscataqua was already the largest landscaping company in the Seacoast region, according to a company spokesperson.
Piscataqua was founded in 1979 by Booth Hemingway, who had earned degrees in horticulture and Spanish from the University of New Hampshire. He then started the business with a lawn mower, a pickup truck and a rented shed in Portsmouth, N.H.
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