Mick Horn

idverde UK

idverde UK is the UK's leading green service provider. With an annual turnover of £250 million and employing 4,000 staff, idverde UK is the largest amenity horticulture specialist in the UK and, with our legacy company, The Landscape Group, tracing its origins back to 1919, we are probably the longest established as well. Our services range from professional open space management to grounds maintenance, landscape construction, civil engineering, sports field construction and maintenance, arboriculture, street cleansing, stone masonry, outdoor facilities management, landscape design and build, biodiversity management and waterways management. With a network of depots across the UK, we offer our clients nationwide coverage, delivered by locally-based teams. This means that our regional branches know their areas well, but also benefit from the backup of our national infrastructure, increased economies of scale and support from in-house experts across finance, HR, QHSE, assets and fleet, marketing and national operations management. This gives our clients a ‘best of both worlds' experience, as their local team can deliver a personal service, backed up by a company that can deliver a scaleable service from one-off local contracts through to national accounts. Social value is very important to us and we're committed to providing employment opportunities and support to the local communities in each region where we operate. We run our own Apprenticeship Scheme through our in-house Performance Campus and we have been recognised as one of the UK's Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers. We have a long history of delivering award-winning standards with 128 BALI Awards to date, including the prestigious BALI Grand Award for our work at Media City. We're ISO 14001 accredited and pay close attention to the environmental impact of our operations and are accredited to OHSAS 18001 for Health and Safety, ISO 14001 for environmental management and ISO 9001 for quality management.