PEOPLE
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
BRIAN DUMONT YARDNIQUE BRIAN DUMONT LAUNCHED YARDNIQUE BASED ON THE GOLDEN RULE
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t’s a quintessential American success story. Brian DuMont grew up helping his dad in the yard and dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player. Life had other plans though, leading him to go to school for landscape horticulture. Right out of college, he launched his own company and today, 24 years later, he’s overseeing 450 employees and projects in four states. Brian came up with the idea for Yardnique while dealing with a difficult boss one summer after his junior year in college. So that fall he submitted a business plan to his horticulture professor at NC State. His mission was simple: Start a landscaping company that treats others the way you’d want to be treated.
THE KEY IS WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO KEEP MY EMPLOYEES.THEY’RE SUCH LOYAL GUYS AND GALS WHO’VE BEEN WITH ME FOREVER Not only has this mantra been good for business, it’s been good for employee retention. Brian has watched employees marry and raise a family, then have their own
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