| LESCO, Inc. provides turf and lawn care products for the professional turf care segment primarily in the United States. It offers various products, which include turf control products, fertilizer, combination fertilizer, and pest control products, grass seed, and equipment. The companys fertilizers include products for use in the lawn care industry; products for golf course applications, including greens, tees, and fairways; and products for trees, shrubs, and landscape beds. Its turf control products include both LESCO and third-party branded herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and other specialty products. Its turfgrass seed line includes various mulches and soil amendments. Its pest management products include products to manage termites and wood-destroying pests, general insects, rodents, and a line of application equipment. In addition, the company distributes branded handheld power tools; ice melt and other snow removal products; underground irrigation equipment; protective gear, such as goggles, masks, and gloves; and hand tools, such as tree pruners, shovels, and rakes. LESCO distributed its products through 280 LESCO service centers and 98 LESCO Stores-on-Wheels, a fleet of mobile stores, as of April 28, 2005. The company offers its products and services to lawn care and landscape firms, golf courses, sod farms, airports, cemeteries, professional sports organizations, universities, schools, commercial properties, and other organizations that use in-house employees to maintain lawns and gardens. The company was founded by Robert F. Burkhardt and James I. FitzGibbon in 1962. The company was formerly known as Lakeshore Equipment and Supply Co. and changed its name to LESCO, Inc. in 1984. LESCO is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. |
