Revenue 92 million GBP (2015) Type of business Private | Founded 1973 | |
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Services Landscape Maintenance, Winter Maintenance, Landscape Design and Construction, Fencing, Arboriculture Website www.ground-control.co.uk Headquarters Billericay, United Kingdom Awards The Queen's Award for Enterprise, Innovation | ||
Ground Control is a privately owned external services company in the United Kingdom.
Its headquarters are in Billericay, Essex. The company was established in 1973 as a commercial landscaping company. Ground Control’s first commercial contract was to provide grounds maintenance to three Tesco stores, and won its first national contract with 1,600 Royal Mail sites in 2003. The company currently has contracts with over 600 Tesco stores.
Through a management buy-in, buy-out, the company was purchased from its founder in 2004. A year later it acquired Scotland-based company Moray Landscapes. In 2010, Ground Control acquired Vale Contract Services, as a way to broaden business opportunity in the Public Sector. The company currently has national contracts with, among others, Tesco, Network Rail and Royal Mail.
Ground Control is now a multi-service business, offering grounds maintenance, vegetation management, arboricultural services, winter maintenance, landscape construction, landscape design, ecology and biodiversity, invasive weeds management, pest control, fencing, roofing and commercial window cleaning.
The company has won a number of awards in its 43-year history including 20 BALI National Landscape Awards, health and safety related RoSPA Gold Award for five years running, Essex Business of the Year in 2016, and is one of London Stock Exchanges ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’.
It has supported a number of charities in past including The Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief, Cancer Research UK, Macmillan Cancer Support and Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity. The company supported BBC DIY SOS: Big Build Veteran’s Special last year, supplying labour to the project.