Let’s Hear it from...
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NICK TEMPLE-HEALD
LET’S HEARIT FROM...
CEO The Landscape Group
He cooks food to die for and has a love of motorbikes you’d be scared you’d die on. But what Pro Landscaper wanted to hear from Landscape Group CEO Nick Temple-Heald was his thoughts on sustainability, growth and what he means by wanting to ‘make a difference’.
Nick, tell us about the Landscape Group, how you are made up and how the work is structured. We are a business of 1,098 staff right now, 900 permanent staff and the rest are seasonal, but that’s not including sub-contractors who are also a large and valued part of the Landscape Construction business. Very few staff are office based. We have 60 managers up and down the country who are operational, and based here at HQ are around 30 people made up of HR, Health and Safety, Engineering, Finance, Business Development and Admin. We are a Venture Capital backed company with a top management group of eight people who own a percentage of the business, the rest being owned by the venture capital fund Elysian Capital LLP. We are currently growing and are in the top three companies of the type in the country.
What are the major challenges ahead for the company? The challenge is the ability to grow within the constraints imposed externally. The outside world currently is not a stable platform with macro economic movements, up and down, that we can’t control. However, we are still required to show growth year-on- year in terms of profit and turnover which is a constant challenge.
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