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Pristine Property Maintenance From cutting lawns to industry leader
By Julia Harmsworth
J on Agg, owner of Pristine Property Maintenance (PPM), started cutting grass when he was 12. From there, Agg attended the University of Toronto (Scarborough) for arts and culture, where he spent most of his time working on the student union — foreshadowing his intense commitment to Landscape Ontario. Upon graduation, he wasn’t sure what to do with his degree, but he saw an opportunity to make a living doing what he enjoyed growing up: landscape maintenance. He founded Pristine Property Maintenance (PPM) in 2005 and he’s never looked back. What started with one condo corporation, a real estate office, a Montessori school, plus the 20 houses he serviced as a teenager, is now a 160-person, 100-vehicle operation servicing the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) from their head office in Ajax, Ont. A second division in Brighton serves clients in eastern Ontario. The company’s client list is now 400 condominiums strong. PPM’s key services are grounds and snow and ice management for condominiums and municipal properties — the skills Agg started developing in his youth. The company also offers hard and softscape construction, tree services, irrigation, waste management, and fertilization and weed control. “We started out as a fairly small, one-crew company, and then two crews, and then four crews and then eight crews. We grew really fast once we got into the condominium world,” Agg explained. The business doubled each year for about 10 years, seizing opportunities as they arose. In the last five years, it has doubled again — largely through partnership with Hydro One. PPM now takes care of 500 hydro sites across the province. In 2016, the company bought a landscaping yard in Lindsay, where they now sell mulch, aggregates and soils. In 2022, they joined forces with two smaller companies in Brighton to expand eastward. They have staff in Huntsville, servicing Hydro One facilities and several banks, plus an employee overseeing the company’s northern division in Ottawa. The eastern expansion was spearheaded by PPM’s general manager,
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