PROJECT DETAILS:
- CLIENT: GIE Media Inc.
- PUBLICATION: Lawn & Landscape Magazine
- PROJECT: Cover Story
- INDUSTRY: Horticulture / Landscaping
- FEATURING:
- Lowell Kaufhold, president, CPS Distributors;
- Jose Cantu, co-founder, Saw House;
- Dale Fronheiser, co-owner, Passmore Service Center;
- Jason Lewinski, assistant field sales manager, Power Equipment Distributors;
- Phil Stephens, director of sales, Horizon Distributors;
- Barden Winstead, president, Land & Coates
- READ IT: “Our guide on how to fail: 10 surefire ways to go broke, lose customers and go out of business“

Award-Winning Content
This cover story earned a Regional BRONZE Azbee Award of Excellence for general interest feature writing from The American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). These highly competitive awards celebrate the highest quality reporting in business-to-business, trade and professional publications.
The most and the least successful landscape contractors share one thing in common: the local dealer or distributor who supplies them. These vendors hear stories of both triumph and horror as contractors divulge the ups and downs of business.
For this award-winning cover story for Lawn & Landscape Magazine, we spoke with dealers and distributors across the country to see what they’ve learned from landscapers who rock and those who flopped to highlight these 10 fatal mistakes.
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