SME News Scottish Enterprise 2024/ 16 Sports Turf Care Specialists of the Year 2024 With adverse weather conditions, including cold temperatures, heavy rainfall, and strong winds, maintaining sports turf in the harsher Scottish climate can be a challenging feat. Allgrass Scotland leverages decades of experience in the construction, renovation, and maintenance of sports surfaces to maintain its position as a leading force in sports turf care. Following the company’s recent win in the Scottish Enterprise Awards 2024, we catch up with Company Director, Stewart McNeish, to learn more about Scotland’s leading turf care contractor. Allgrass Scotland was founded in 2017, born from a noticed gap in the market for a high quality turf care contractor within the sports industry. Upon identifying the sector’s pain point, Company Directors Stewart McNeish and Gerry Sweeney joined forces with Operations Director John Rushforth to form the company. Combining John’s first-hand experience and vast knowledge of the turf care industry with Stewart and Gerry’s honed expertise in the Scottish plant industry, Allgrass Scotland has swiftly risen the ranks to become Scotland’s trusted partner for quality turf care. An industry leader, Allgrass Scotland boasts a wealth of experience in turf care, covering football pitches, rugby pitches, cricket pitches, golf courses, and racecourses. The company offers a comprehensive turf care service, which includes sports pitch renovations, golf course construction and aeration, drainage works, and the maintenance of natural grass surfaces. Since its inception, Allgrass Scotland has serviced a variety of clientele, from grassroots and junior football clubs to Premier League clubs, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to play on the best surfaces possible. Ultimately, Allgrass Scotland strives to provide the highest standard of work, ensuring that it remains up to date with the latest industry trends and innovations. The company strives to maintain a flexible approach when undertaking projects, working closely with the client and remaining within their budget to ensure that all projects are an economic success. In doing so, Allgrass Scotland succeeds in its mission of establishing strong bonds with clients that are built upon trust and its proven track record of success. The company’s location in Scotland has also contributed to these strong relationships, as Stewart tells us, “The largest benefit we find from being based in Scotland has been the relationships we have built up with all our clients. We also do some work outside of Scotland, but only if it does not impact the quality of our work in Scotland.” Due to its advantageous positioning, Allgrass Scotland is on hand to swiftly help clients with whatever issues that may arise from day to day usage. Such speedy response times only strengthen the bonds between Allgrass Scotland and its clients, as the company proves itself to be a trusted partner that clients can rely on in times of need. This ability further reflects the company’s commitment to people, delivering client-centric services that are of the very highest standards. This passion for people is also evident in Allgrass Scotland’s employee hiring and training processes. “We always want to produce to the highest standard every time we do a job, meaning that we mostly hire skilled workers,” Stewart tells us. “As a company, we also love to promote younger employees and enjoy seeing them develop alongside our experienced workers. All staff get the relevant training, and this means that we have created a great blend of youth and experience. We ultimately want to build a working environment where everyone enjoys going into work.” As a result, the team at Allgrass Scotland have more than 70 years of combined, first-hand experience in the Scottish turf care industry, and are highly motivated through continuous professional development and training initiatives. Each member of the team genuinely cares for the quality of the finished product, and work together to produce the very best results possible. Looking to 2025, Stewart tells us, “We plan to keep pushing to achieve the highest standards of work. We will be working closely with our clients with the aim of becoming their go-to contractor and continue to move with the times when it comes to machinery.” Allgrass Scotland has much to do with the end of the year, with work in aeration, shaping, drainage, and maintenance lined up for the company. As for the future, we learn that Allgrass Scotland is in talks for numerous promising projects and advises that we watch this space for future development. Contact: Stewart McNeish Company: Allgrass Scotland Ltd Web Address: https://www.allgrassscotland.co.uk/ Oct24413
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