Canada Salt

Contact: Mark Hrycyna | 416-890-1031  [email protected]

Canada Salt is a trusted and reliable salt provider catering to a wide range of industries. They supply and deliver bulk salt (raw product of branded and packaged goods ready for sale),  offer delivery service throughout North America along with year-round storage solutions, and provide consultation services to help optimize your operation.

Greenworks

Contact: Steven Goeree | 519-465-9265 [email protected]

 Greenworks Commercial is also the ONLY brand with a full line of professional-grade, 100% battery-powered outdoor power equipment including blowers, chainsaws, string trimmers, hedge trimmers, pole saws, edgers, zero-turn mowers, lawn mowers, snow throwers, tilers, winches, and utility vehicles. 

Impact Winter Maintenance

Tyler Duff | 519-498-7277  tyler@impactwintermaintenance.com 

Impact Winter Maintenance provides tractor rentals with the operators to run them.

“Our goal is to partner with the snow company to clear the snow from their commercial lots. We provide late model tractors, the most up-to-date plow equipment and the trained staff to operate it.  During an event, time is of the essence. Our partners can make one call and we will dispatch out our team.”

Innovative Surface Solutions

Innovative's ProMelt™ line of premium liquid de-icers offer an attractive Price to Performance Ratio with superior magnesium chloride and calcium chloride products delivering effective solutions for all of your winter road maintenance. 

Jim Pattison Lease

Wendy Ladd | 416.417.5233 | [email protected]

Jim Pattison Lease is Canada's leader in Customized Fleet Management and also proud members of Landscape Ontario. Wendy is a member of Landscape Ontario and loves being involved with the landscape/snow removal community. She understands the landscape/snow removal business and can offer solutions & complimentary fleet evaluations.

Manulift 

Greg Scott | 226.752.8440 | [email protected] 

The versatile Merlo machine allows you to perform a wide range of tasks in a more efficient way: frontal reach for stockpiling material, unloading from one side of a flatbed, and reach over sensitive areas. The dump height reaches any trailer while the compactness provides access to tight spaces. The bottom line is that the increased capacities, range of motion, speed, visibility, pushing power, and operator safety and comfort compared to traditional machines brings innovation to the landscape industry that you can’t ignore!

Metal Pless 

Bob Green | 438.829.2613   [email protected] 

“When a snowstorm hits, you’ve got to clear the snow quickly and safely. Efficiency is key and the Metal Pless blades give you just that.” For more information and to speak with someone about which blade is right for you, click the link below.

MoonGlow Lightscapes

Scott Sim | 888.992.3770 | [email protected] 

Moon Glow provides a comprehensive lighting design and installation. They provide your company with a quote that can be incorporated into the overall presentation, and at a value that allows you to make extra margin.

Salt Cheap 

Jon Weiler | 519.573.6099 | [email protected]

SaltCheap understands the challenges of small/medium businesses in the snow removal industry and works with contractors to make things as easy as possible for them to get supplies. The owner, Jon, is always on the lookout for new services/products that he can offer contractors (ie. SaltCheap is heavily leaning towards offering pre-made brine for contractors using liquids).

WPE Equipment

Dan Borgdorff | 905.628.3055 | [email protected]

 WPE Landscape Equipment is a premium dealer of landscape contractor equipment that has services the landscape and construction trades for over 30 years through sales, repairs and equipment rentals. 

Bamboo HR

Contact: Charolette Cascioli [email protected]

BambooHR is an all-in-one HR software made for small and medium businesses and the people who work in them. The software makes it easy to collect, maintain, and analyze your people data, improve the way you hire talent, onboard new employees, manage compensation, and develop your company culture. It’s designed to save you valuable time and set you free to focus on what matters most—your people. 

Calendly

Calendly is an app for scheduling appointments, meetings, and events. Its goal is to eliminate the back-and-forth when trying to nail down times. Rather than multiple emails and phone tag, you can send your availability with a Calendly link (even if the people booking time with you don't use Calendly). Invitees will see all available openings in your schedule and can select the one that best suits their schedule.

Easy Locates 

Michelle Williston | michelle@webility.ca

Easy Locates takes the hassle out of managing locates. They streamline the locate process by helping landscape companies track all of the dates, statuses, and documents, for every locate. It does this with clever software, and direct integration with Ontario One Call. Curious how exactly it works or want more information? Click the MORE INFO button below to watch a two minute video.

Greenius

Laura Faubert | 877.482.2323 X110 [email protected]

Greenius is an equipment safety and training software that affords business owners and industry-shaping leaders the opportunity to positively impact not only the employee experience, but their overall business as a whole. Through formal training courses and on-boarding practices, a systemized career development ladder, and structured performance expectations, Greenius crafts a level of employee that is confident enough to take on their role, competent enough to avoid costly mistakes, and capable enough to do their job, and do it well.

Mini RWIS | MTS Pro 

Raqib Omer | 519.781.5243 | 1.844.842.3797 | [email protected]

Mini RWIS (road-weather information systems) are cellular solar-powered snow cameras for the commercial winter maintenance industry that allow you to stay up to date with site conditions, reduce patrolling costs, and provide irrefutable proof of service.

The MTS Pro is a universally compatible salt tracking system with ground speed control for liquid and granular. With the MTS Pro you are able to keep material costs in control by tracking salt application on a per site basis in real time. 

ReadyChek

SynkedUp

SynkedUP automates overhead recovery, ensures every estimate is priced for real net profit, automates job costing so that if you miss the mark you can know why, and everything else regarding knowing your numbers. They will also solve the inefficiencies and frustrations in your daily project management workflow. Let the office know what the crews are up to, and vice versa - with a fully mobile workflow to handle your leads, consultations, proposals, schedule, get job info out to the crew, time tracking, invoicing, and more.

Trackem GPS

1-866-868-7225

Trackem has been specifically servicing landscape clients since 2004, with fleet tracking and business management tools, through GPS. They're known for a robust but simple to use platform that is flexible and most importantly affordable. Our best quality, that Trackem constantly gets accolades for, is our Canadian based live answer customer support. We answer the phone and work with our clients to solve any problems.

They know landscapers, and have tailored their app, hardware and support, to service companies with fleets and equipment from 1-50 assets. Your business is their niche. 

Viaesys 

Raqib Omer | 519.781.5243 | [email protected]

Viaesys offers state-of-the art salt tracking hardware and software and industry-leading site camera systems, along with GPS and mobile workforce management solutions. We approached them about being part of the buyers group because we recognized Viaesys offers a diverse range of solutions that mitigate liability and give owners more control over their business. Viaesys and their products are 100% Canadian owned and manufactured.

Beeksma Law

Shayna Beeksma | 905.522.1234 [email protected]   

"I work with contractors to ensure that they are protected in all of their contracts, helping them avoid common mistakes that many small business owners make. In short, I protect you so that you can focus on running your business."

Bidwell Financial 

James Fullerton | 416.906.3398 | [email protected]

Bidwell provides lease and finance options for commercial customers on larger types of equipment and transportation assets through a single point of contact.  They have access to different funding options, and use a consultative approach which gives them an opportunity to learn about your business and offer experienced advice so you can grow.  

Landscape Ontario 

905 875 1805

Landscape Ontario's mission is to advance and promote the horticulture industry. Members are stewards of the horticultural trades, with a vision for a vibrant and prosperous future. Whether it's promotion or protection, Landscape Ontario is here to help members achieve their goals.

Predictive Success

Jason Taylor | 905.626.5253 [email protected]  

A poor hiring decision can have a significant negative impact on your organization. But you can take the guesswork out of hiring by using The Predictive Success assessment tool. The assessment takes around 6 minutes for candidates to complete and gives you valuable insight into the candidate and his/her suitability for the role you’re looking to fill. Predictive Success helps you develop strategies to ensure the right people are placed in the right roles and that onboarding is done with a customized people-smart decision making process in mind.

Sandler Sales Training

Andrew Wall | [email protected]

Sandler Training Milton is well known for helping improve Sales Performance and Leadership Development.  Did you know that we help Crew Leaders in landscaping companies improve their managing & leading skills? Poorly trained Crew Leaders cause a lot of turnover. If you want to change these results…click on link below.

The Insurance Market

Matt Cowley | 905.243.9523 [email protected]

The Insurance Market is managing and facilitating a S.I.R. Group. This group is not just about saving money on insurance, they are also striving to change the way claims are defended in our industry. They’re working closely with adjusters, lawyers, contractors and industry experts to create standards for the contractor to properly defend any claims. They want to make sure you have the proper documentation and the evidence available to prove you did your due diligence. All of this work is being done in an effort to reduce the cost of insurance by reducing the amount of false claims initiated in order to get a quick buck.

Baker Street Creations

Neill Nucifora | [email protected] 

Neill creates the gramophones that we gift our podcast guests. He says, "I've always loved gramophones - there's just something about that old school sound that never gets old! I wondered if there was a way to use your cell phone with the gramophone, and decided to try to make one. After lots of trial and error, I came up with a way to recreate the old school gramophone, but made completely out of wood!"