Nationwide

Convenience Store Chain - Landscaping

Providing a single invoice for all locations in a consistent format allows the client to reduce processing time and improve asset tracking.

Value Delivered

USM has been providing high-quality landscaping solutions for this client’s company-owned convenience and fuel locations in California, Washington, and Florida. Leveraging our experienced workforce and long-standing client relationships, USM designed and delivered a largely self-performed program that offers the client several significant benefits:

  • Reduced processing costs by offering a single invoice for work performed at all locations
  • Streamlined expense tracking thanks to a uniform invoice format 
  • Improved and maintained brand image through consistent management of landscaping design

Client Objectives

The client wanted to reduce the number of service vendors, manage costs more effectively, and improve the consistency of its brand image across its portfolio.

Solutions

We developed a centralized program that has helped control costs by standardizing the scope of work, schedules, and pricing for landscaping services. 

Services provided include:

  • Irrigation system maintenance and repair
  • Spring and fall cleanups
  • Turf management
  • Weed control and brush/grassland management at refineries and tank farms
  • Routine property inspections to identify issues that might be detrimental to the client’s brand 

Further, because safety is very important to both the client and our organization, all workers are certified by the American Petroleum Institute. 
 

Client Background

The client is an integrated energy company with approximately 4,700 service stations nationwide, 415 of which are company-owned.