Kenny Gute
“I fell in love with it from the beginning and wanted to stay with the company.”
Kenny Gute
Green Industry Partner
Owner Spring-Green
Boone, IA
It didn’t take long for Kenny Gute to fall in love with all the green industry had to offer.
“I started mowing yards in high school and decided that I was going to go to college for landscaping,” Gute said. He attended Des Moines Area Community College and graduated with a degree in landscaping.
He began looking for a job and came across an ad in the newspaper for his local Spring-Green Lawn Care franchise; he decided to give the company a try. Gute spent a quarter century as an employee there, first as a field technician, then as a manager.
“I liked making improvements to people’s lawns, that you could transform a yard so fast and impress people,” Gute said. “I fell in love with it from the beginning and wanted to stay with the company.”
But Gute always knew he wanted more from his job with Spring-Green and hoped to someday take over the business. When the owner retired, he got his opportunity: In 2016, he became the owner of the Ames, Iowa, and Des Moines, Iowa, area Spring-Green franchise.
“I treated the business as my own in hopes that one day I would be able to buy it,” he said. “I work for good people, and when the timing was finally right, we officially made it our business after 25 years.”
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