ValleyCrest Celebrates 60th

At a garden party held to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of ValleyCrest Landscape Companies, Millie J. Jones, (center) Senior Deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, presents the LA County Proclamation to Burton S. Sperber, founder, CEO and Chairman (right) and Richard A. Sperber, President and CEO (left). Photo: LA County Proclamation

More than 700 guests attended a garden party to celebrate the 60th anniversary of ValleyCrest Landscape Companies on June 25, 2009. ValleyCrest Landscape Companies’ Burton S. Sperber, founder, CEO and Chairman, and Richard A. Sperber, President and CEO, hosted the afternoon event at the company’s corporate campus in Calabasas. Included among the attendees were customers, company employees, business partners, community members, friends and dignitaries such as the Mayor of Malibu, City of Calabasas Council members, and representatives from California Senators Alex Padilla, and Fran Pavley, Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Michael D. Antonovich.

Founded in 1949 by Burt Sperber, Calabasas, California-based ValleyCrest Landscape Companies is the nation’s largest integrated landscape services company with annual revenue of $1 billion, more than 11,000 employees and more than 100 locations nationwide.

ValleyCrest, which ranks on Forbes’ 2008 list of America’s 500 Largest Private Companies (434), is commissioned by architects, developers, commercial real estate owners, public agencies, property managers and luxury home builders to help create, build or maintain some of the world’s extraordinary natural environments. ValleyCrest operates six business units and one subsidiary that deliver a full array of landscape services to a wide variety of commercial and residential customers across the globe. ValleyCrest Landscape Companies include: ValleyCrest Landscape Development, ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance, ValleyCrest Design Group, ValleyCrest Golf Course Maintenance, ValleyCrest Tree Company, ValleyCrest Residential and U.S. Lawns.

For more information about ValleyCrest Landscape Companies, please visit www.valleycrest.com.

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