Davey Tree Expert Co.
The Davey Tree Expert Company is one of North America's largest providers of professional tree care, grounds maintenance, and environmental consulting services, headquartered in Kent, Ohio, and operating as a 100% employee-owned company since 1979. According to its website at davey.com, the company was founded in 1880 by John Davey — widely known as the father of tree surgery — and has grown over more than 140 years into a national organization employing approximately 12,000 employee-owners who provide residential and commercial tree care, lawn care, grounds maintenance, plant healthcare, and arboricultural consulting services across the United States and Canada. Davey Tree's employee ownership model creates a deeply engaged and motivated workforce with a long-term stake in the company's reputation, quality standards, and client relationships.
Davey Tree's service portfolio, described at davey.com, spans all aspects of professional arboriculture and landscape management including tree trimming and pruning, tree removal, tree planting and transplanting, tree health assessments and plant healthcare programs, soil management, insect and disease management, lightning protection, cabling and bracing, stump grinding, and comprehensive grounds maintenance programs for commercial properties. The company's residential services division serves homeowners seeking professional tree care and lawn treatment from ISA-certified arborists who can assess the health, structure, and risk profile of residential trees and prescribe appropriate care programs. Davey's commercial division serves corporate campuses, utility rights-of-way, municipalities, golf courses, and other institutional property owners with recurring grounds maintenance and tree care programs.
Davey Tree Expert's Davey Resource Group provides environmental and natural resource consulting services to utilities, corporations, government agencies, and developers including environmental impact assessments, vegetation management planning, stormwater management consulting, and ecological restoration services. According to davey.com, the company's environmental consulting capabilities reflect its deep scientific expertise in trees, plants, soils, and ecological systems — expertise developed over more than a century of field experience that informs both its consulting work and its operational tree and landscape care services. Davey Tree's combination of national scale, 140-year heritage, employee ownership model, professional arboricultural credentials, and environmental consulting capabilities establishes it as the most experienced and widely trusted name in professional tree care and grounds management services in North America.