News & Events

January 27th, 2011

Residex Turfgrass Expands Executive Team with Two New Hires

Residex Turfgrass Hires Brian Eisenberg as Training Manager

Brian is a second generation PMP from a Residex client family-owned pest control company. He worked in the pest control industry for twenty years.

He is a Graduate MS Entomologist from the University of Florida and worked in every position and capacity in the industry from Sales to Service, Management, Technical Director, Chemical Manufacturer Rep and now distribution. Formerly employed by MGK and a Bayer Intern. He is an approved trainer to the industry in the SE US, 6 Southernmost states. He will offer classes on all technical industry categories from safety, to sales, to service, and value-added business development courses (sales and coaching)... including but not limited to (PC, L&O, GC, Termite, WDO).

He will also prepare step-by-step pest treatment protocols and conduct industry public speaking engagements.

Residex Turfgrass Hires Jud Hudnut as new Program Manager.

Jud joins Turfgrass with a well-rounded background in both finance and the turf industry. After earning a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance in 1995, Jud accepted a position in public accounting.

He later moved into the golf industry as a golf course superintendent and earned a Turfgrass Pest Management degree from Purdue University in 1998.

After eight years in the public golf arena as a superintendent and general manager, Jud moved to Prestwick Village, an 18-hole private facility in Highland, Michigan. For the past five years, he has been working at Edgewood Country Club as the Golf Course Superintendent.

November 30th, 2010

Residex, LLC and Turfgrass, Inc., have officially combined both companies into one business effective November 30, 2010.

Novi, MI- Residex, LLC and Turfgrass, Inc., have officially combined both companies into one business effective November 30, 2010. The new company will retain both former brands, Residex-Turfgrass into the foreseeable future. The new headquarters for the combined busi-nesses will be in Novi, Michigan. Both companies will continue to run as separate businesses until December 31, 2010, and in the New Year, will begin to integrate the businesses into a single seamless operation.

In the combined business, Chris Donaghy will serve as the company's CEO, and Todd Griebe as the company's President. Jim Hespe as VP of Operations and Janice Cronin as VP of Fi-nance. There will also be many new organizational additions and promotions announced over the next few months.

"I am excited about the expansion possibilities and the opportunities that the Residex-Turfgrass joint venture will bring to our customers, our employees and the industry. Residex and Turfgrass were both successful standalone businesses, and now Todd and I get to work together to de-velop our forward strategies to innovate the future of distribution." stated Chris Donaghy.

The combined entity of Residex-Turfgrass, two proudly American and independently owned busi-nesses, offer over 100 years of excellent customer service, expertise and knowledge, industry support and proven business solutions advice. Residex was established in 1946 and serves the structural pest industry, while Turfgrass, Inc. was founded in 1970 to service the golf and turf in-dustry.

"There are great benefits in combining these two highly complementary organizations and prod-uct lines. The synergies realized by this merger will allow us to offer even greater knowledge and value to our customers in a much expanded territory," said Todd Griebe who will serve as Presi-dent of the newly combined firm.

Residex's former headquarters, in Roselle, NJ will transition to a regional operations center and a customer service call center. Additionally, the warehouse will remain in place and continue to serve as a walk-in and delivery location for our customers. The combination of the businesses takes nothing away from our current or future customers as Residex-Turfgrass will now have 23 walk-in and delivery locations servicing the East Coast and Mid-West regions of the country.

"Unlike other attempts to combine turf and pest distribution, this venture blends two complete sets of respective knowledge and expertise in both disciplines. We won't just dabble in one side of the offerings or the other; we will bring real experience and knowledge to turf (green) and pest opera-tors," said Chris Donaghy, CEO, of the newly formed company.