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08/17/2011
Firewalker Challenge
COLFAX, North Carolina --- August 17, 2011 --- Green Resource hosted their annual Summer Sales Meeting. The company’s following supply chain partners also participated: Andersons Golf Products, Arysta LifeScience, Bayer Environmental Science, Cleary Chemical Company, Geotextile Systems by Propex, PBI/Gordon Corporation, Precision Laboratories, PROFILE Products, Spring Valley USA, Syngenta Crop Protection, and Western Excelsior.
07/29/2011
Launch of New Website
COLFAX, North Carolina --- July 29, 2011 --- Green Resource launches new website. "It is user-friendly and easy to navigate. Our new website provides additional insight to our company, key product information, and features a Resource tab, which contains content applicable to all of our customer segments." says Robert Herring, the company's Director of Sales & Marketing.
07/14/2011
*** Member of the Year ***
COLFAX, North Carolina --- July 14, 2011 --- Todd McPeak, a principal of Green Resource, traveled to Minneapolis, MN to attend PrimeraTurf’s 2011 Annual Meeting & Trade Show, where Green Resource was honored as the purchasing cooperative’s Member of the Year [for the third consecutive time].
07/12/2011
New PrimeraTurf Director
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota --- July 12, 2011 --- At their 11th Annual Meeting & Trade Show, PrimeraTurf elected a new Board of Directors. Jonathan Annas, a principal of Green Resource, will serve a three-year term as a Director.
06/13/2011
The First Tee of the Triad
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina --- June 13, 2011 --- Forsyth Country Club, a Donald Ross design (1913), was host to the 2nd Annual Forsyth Country Club Celebrity Pro-Am to benefit The First Tee of the Triad. The event consisted of 26 Carolinas PGA golf professionals, 26 celebrities, and 78 participants, whom raised $80,000 on behalf of their worthy beneficiary.
01/25/2011
Herring: New TCNC Director
CARY, North Carolina --- January 25, 2011 --- Robert Herring, Green Resource’s Director of Sales & Marketing, was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Turfgrass Council of North Carolina (TCNC).
10/19/2010
Jay Reins, III Renews CGCS
COLFAX, North Carolina --- October 19, 2010 --- Green Resource is pleased to announce that Jesse ‘Jay’ V. Reins, III has successfully completed his Certified Golf Course Superintendent (CGCS) recertification. Be it known that there are only 1,700 Certified Golf Course Superintendents in the nation...
09/24/2010
SePRO Corporation
COLFAX, North Carolina --- September 24, 2010 --- Green Resource is pleased to inform our all customers that the company signed a distribution contract with SePRO Corporation. “We are excited to offer SePRO products. Their high quality product portfolio continues to strengthen our product line depth and breadth,” says Robert Herring, Green Resource’s Director of Sales & Marketing...
09/24/2010
2010 Book of Lists: Fast 50
Green Resource, LLC was depicted in The Business Journal’s 2010 Book of Lists: Fast 50 (#22), a ranking of the fastest growing companies in the Triad area (Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem) of North Carolina.
09/10/2010
Cleary Chemical, LLC
COLFAX, North Carolina --- September 10, 2010 --- Green Resource is pleased to inform our all customers that the company signed a distribution contract with Cleary Chemical, LLC. “We’re very proud to be affiliated with Cleary Chemical. They are the world’s leading authority in regard to thiophanate-methyl chemistry. Cleary Chemical manufactures time-tested products which provide excellent disease control. Our customers like their insecticides and speciality products too,”...
07/20/2010
U.S. National Whitewater Center
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina --- July 20, 2010 --- Green Resource hosted a corporate teambuilding exercise and lunch at the prominent U.S. National Whitewater Center. The primary objectives were to test associates in a variety of facilitator-led initiatives to examine the associates’ leadership, problem solving, and communication skills under stressful conditions. This unique event enhanced employee morale and created stronger internal bonds between associates...
07/13/2010
*** Member of the Year ***
COVINGTON, Kentucky --- July 13, 2010 --- Jonathan Annas and Todd McPeak, the principals of Green Resource were awarded Member of the Year at the PrimeraTurf 10th Annual Meeting & Trade Show held in Covington, KY. This is the second consecutive time Green Resource has earned this highly coveted award.
06/14/2010
The First Tee of the Triad
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina --- June 14, 2010 --- A fund raising event for children interested in playing golf was held at the prestigious Forsyth Country Club. Ben Holcomb, the Chief Financial Officer for Green Resource, participated in the event consisting of a round of golf, charitable auction, and dinner party. Green Resource and their supply chain partners were proud to make a charitable donation to The First Tee of the Triad...
05/14/2010
Green Diamond Brand
COLFAX, North Carolina --- May 14, 2010 --- Green Resource launches Green Diamond private-label brand. Jonathan Annas, a Green Resource principal explains, “We are attempting to take a commodity-type product and improve the product’s performance through the manufacturing process and/or the addition of a key, proprietary ingredient. Our introductory product is Liquid Lime, designed primarily for our hydroseeding customers”...
04/29/2010
Quail Hollow Championship
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina --- April 29, 2010 --- A few associates from Green Resource volunteered on the golf course and hosted a breakfast for volunteers and maintenance staff at the Quail Hollow Championship, a PGA Tour sanctioned golf tournament. There were two work shifts: early morning and late afternoon. Volunteers performed the following functions: hand-raking bunkers, filling divots on tees and fairways, moving television cables, retrieving tee markers and flagpoles, and...
01/04/2010
IT Corporate Upgrade
GARNER, North Carolina --- January 4, 2010 --- Today, Green Resource initiates their new accounting and finance platform at their Triangle distribution center. Ben Holcomb, the company’s Chief Financial Officer, explains, “Due to organic sales growth and last year’s asset acquisition of GroGreen Solutions, LLC, we needed to upgrade our information technology. The owners invested more than $100,000 into this project. After an exhaustive Best-In-Class search,...
01/04/2010
New Addition to Sales Team
COLFAX, North Carolina --- January 4, 2010 --- Green Resource adds a new sales professional to their team. Jesse 'Jay‘ V. Reins, III earned the prestigious Certified Golf Course Superintendent (CGCS) title while managing Oakwoods Country Club, in Wilkesboro, NC. Years later, he joined Southern Agricultural Insecticides, Inc. operating a sales territory for nine years. Jay invested the last three years of his career with LESCO, Inc. (now known as John Deere Landscapes)...
11/12/2009
New Addition to Sales Force
COLFAX, North Carolina --- November 12, 2009 --- Green Resource enlarges their sales force again. Spencer Stubbs spent the last nine years of his sales career with LESCO, Inc. (now known as John Deere Landscapes). He was a Service Center Manager for the Matthews location and, most recently, the Pineville location. He was a multiple year Sales Excellence Award winner and enrolled in the company’s President’s Club. He was formerly employed with Pine Island Country Club and Carowinds...
10/16/2009
Syngenta Crop Protection
COLFAX, North Carolina --- October 16, 2009 --- Jonathan Annas representing Green Resource and Howard Jaekle representing Syngenta Crop Protection have consummated an agreement, which stipulates that Green Resource is designated as an Authorized Distributor. “Syngenta’s extensive group of pesticides are very popular among our client base. We are honored to become a more visible brand steward for Syngenta,” proclaimed Jonathan Annas, a Green Resource co-owner...
09/25/2009
2009 Book of Lists: Fast 50
Green Resource, LLC was depicted in The Business Journal’s 2009 Book of Lists: Fast 50 (#6), a ranking of the fastest growing companies in the Triad area (Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem) of North Carolina...
08/14/2009
Ben Holcomb: CFO Finalist
Small Company: Finalists...
08/06/2009
New Addition to Sales Team
COLFAX, North Carolina --- August 6, 2009 --- Green Resource adds a new sales professional to their team. Mike Vaughan is a Certified Turfgrass Professional (CTP) and Certified Plant Professional (CPP). He currently serves on the Turfgrass Council of North Carolina’s Board of Directors...
07/07/2009
*** Member of the Year ***
COVINGTON, Kentucky --- July 7, 2009 --- Jonathan Annas and Todd McPeak, the principals of Green Resource, attend PrimeraTurf’s 2009 Annual Meeting & Trade Show in Covington, Kentucky, where they were honored as the purchasing cooperative’s Member of the Year...
05/13/2009
Green Resource Hosts an Open House
Green Resource celebrated their new 33,600 sq. ft. warehouse location in Charlotte, by hosting an open house...
04/13/2009
GroGreen Solutions, LLC
33,600 sq. ft. of leased warehouse and office space of GroGreen Solutions, LLC, a Charlotte-based company, which transacted business in the Green, Erosion Control, and Agriculture Industry. The company’s owner and all of its employees will join Green Resource. The terms and conditions of the transaction are undisclosed...
09/23/2008
Leadership Team Addition
COLFAX, North Carolina --- September 23, 2008 --- Green Resource hired Robert G. Herring as Director of Sales & Marketing. He is a 25-year veteran of the Green Industry and a Certified Turfgrass Professional (CTP). Mr. Herring has an extensive management background with Husqvarna, Agronomic Advisors, and LESCO. He began his career as a sales associate for The Scotts Company...