ID Verde SAS

What ID Verde SAS does

idverde Group SAS is Europe's largest green environmental services provider, operating across seven countries (UK, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain as of 2026) with more than 10,000 employees and revenues exceeding €1.2 billion following its Spanish market entry. The company delivers nature-based solutions spanning urban greening, tree care and arboriculture, water management and climate adaptation, ecological consulting, and landscape construction and maintenance, serving municipalities, government agencies, port and rail authorities, housing associations, hospitals, sports venues, and corporate clients. Service depth is enhanced by specialized technology stacks, including i-Tree ecosystem valuation tools, mobile LiDAR scanning systems capable of measuring up to 50,000 individual urban trees per day, AI-enabled tree recognition, NDVI satellite health monitoring, and sensor-based plant monitoring for corporate sustainability reporting.

The company's revenue model combines long-term recurring maintenance contracts (typically multi-year municipal and government framework agreements such as the £30m ten-year Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park deal and the €5m/year Port of Rotterdam extension) with project-based landscape construction, specialist professional services, and nursery/plant production. Pricing is set through competitive tendering for public sector contracts rather than published rate cards. Go-to-market is exclusively direct sales via country-organized field teams, with each market led by a dedicated country CEO and supported by key account management for major public and enterprise clients.

Growth is driven primarily through an aggressive M&A strategy: idverde has completed more than 30 acquisitions since its 2018 founding, integrating specialist local brands (e.g., BTL/Netherlands, OKNygaard/Denmark, Acorn Environmental/UK, Arrosage System/France, Gzimi/Germany, Boccard/Switzerland, El Ejidillo/Spain) while preserving regional identities and leadership. The business is privately held by Core Equity Holdings and has sustained EBITDA margins above 10%, positioning itself as a consolidation platform in a fragmented €40+ billion European green services market.

Name

ID Verde SAS

Legal name

idverde Group SAS

Website

https://idverde.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

idverde Group is Europe's largest green environmental services provider, operating across seven countries with 10,000+ employees and €1.2B+ revenue, delivering urban greening, tree care, climate adaptation, and landscape maintenance to municipalities, governments, and enterprises through long-term contracts and an active acquisition strategy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscape and Grounds Maintenance Services

NAICS

Landscaping Services (561730), Landscaping Services (56173), Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Landscaping & Lawn Care (BPABADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Tree Care & Arborist Services (BPABADAD), Climate Resilience & Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) (BPAGABAK)

Keywords

• Green space maintenance
• Landscape construction services
• Urban forestry management
• Climate adaptation consulting
• Biodiversity enhancement services

Headquarters

HQ city

Allesley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Grounds Maintenance Contracts: Long-term maintenance contracts with municipalities, government agencies, and public sector clients for ongoing grounds and green space maintenance. Contracts typically span multiple years and provide recurring revenue.
2. Landscape Creation and Construction Projects: One-time project-based work for landscape creation, construction, and renovation of green spaces. Examples include the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (£30m, ten-year contract), De Groenzoom conservation, and Le Parc de Cret sustainable community development.
3. Specialty Services: High-value specialist services including arboriculture, tree surgery, water management, climate adaptation, consulting, and ecological engineering. Revenue generated through specialized project work and advisory services.
4. Nursery and Plant Production: Production and sale of plants, trees, and nursery products through vertically integrated operations (e.g., El Ejidillo's nurseries in Segovia and Granada, Boccard's Swiss nursery operations).

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

idverde creates and maintains green spaces across seven European countries, providing urban greening, tree care, water management, climate adaptation, and consulting/advisory services to municipalities, government agencies, and private sector clients. The company's offering spans long-term grounds maintenance contracts, landscape creation and construction projects, arboriculture and tree surgery, ecological engineering, water management, and vertically integrated nursery/plant production. Operations are organized by country with dedicated country CEOs and local teams serving 12,000+ clients across 150+ branches.

Product overview

ID Verde SAS operates as a multi-service green environmental services company offering a comprehensive portfolio of nature-based solutions across Europe. The core offering combines five main service areas: Urban Greening Services, Community Wellbeing Services, Tree Care Services, Water & Climate Adaptation Services, and Consulting & Advisory Services. Within specific markets like the Netherlands, the company operates through distinct divisions including idverde Advice (consultancy and engineering), idverde Tree Service (specialized tree care), and idverde Realisation (construction and maintenance). The company has grown significantly through acquisitions, integrating specialized brands such as Arrosage System (irrigation/water management), Boccard Parcs et Jardins (Swiss landscaping), OKNygaard (Danish landscaping/B Corp certified), Acorn Environmental Management Group (UK arboriculture), Malmos Landskaber (Danish climate projects), SB Paysage (French ecological engineering), Gzimi (German green roofs/sports fields), and El Ejidillo Viveros Integrales (Spanish green services and nursery). These acquired brands operate as subsidiaries while leveraging idverde's pan-European platform and shared resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Greening Services

Quantifiable outcome

• €1.1 billion+ revenue in 2025
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered key, core and flagship.

• Wallaard GroenkeyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2023Joint partnership with Wallaard Groen to win five-year ProRail contract for managing 84 kilometers of Dutch railway embankments on the Rhine and Gouwe route. idverde NL and Wallaard Groen signed agreement with ProRail in October 2023 under 'More Nature on the Verge' program.
• Van GelderkeyChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 October 2023Partner with Van Gelder (responsible for dry/road infrastructure) in Port of Rotterdam maintenance contract. Both companies secured four-year contract extension with Port of Rotterdam Authority worth €5 million per year.
• RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Five-year partnership (celebrated in 2022) bringing together idverde's commercial breadth and RSPB's specialist nature conservation knowledge. idverde has six permanent RSPB advisors embedded in operations across England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Partnership started with London Borough of Bromley contract in 2017, managing Local Wildlife Sites, Local Nature Reserves, and Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Key achievements include 25% increase in naturally managed grassland, £156k external funding attracted, 100+ swift nest boxes installed.
• Stichting SteenbreekkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership between idverde NL and Stichting Steenbreek for sustainable greening of business parks in Netherlands. Focus on greening business parks for climate, health, biodiversity, and spatial quality. Organizing business park stages with first focus on Limburg and business park Roerstreek.
• Børneriget FondenflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with hospital foundation Børneriget Fonden for 'Mary's Magical Roof Garden' at Mary Elizabeth's Hospital in Copenhagen. Groundbreaking project combining biodiversity with healing spaces for children and families. idverde, Malmos Landskaber, and Juul Frost Architects collaborating on this innovative healing garden.
• Juul Frost ArchitectskeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Copenhagen children's hospital roof garden project alongside idverde, Malmos Landskaber, and Børneriget Fonden. Architectural design partnership for healing garden.
• Boligforeningen 3B and KAB (Københavns Almindelige Boligselskab)keyChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLarge housing associations in Copenhagen awarding Malmos Landskaber DKK 350 million contract for climate landscape project at Remisevængerne and Hørgården on Amager. Focus on water and climate adaptation, sewage separation, sustainable drainage.
• RSPB Biodiversity AdvisorscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerRSPB Biodiversity Advisor Ross Bray serves as partnership Biodiversity Advisor for idverde in Midlands. Specialist consultation on biodiversity enhancement plans for projects like Bardon II distribution centre.
• i-Tree Suite (USDA Forest Service)keyTechnology or IntegrationUsing i-Tree open source tools for tree ecosystem valuation across Europe. idverde has carried out hundreds of analyses on thousands of trees using these tools. Working with university departments in Netherlands to promote i-Tree as open source tool.
• El Ejidillo Viveros IntegralesflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerMajority stake acquisition (March 2026) bringing idverde into Spain. Madrid-based green services and nursery group with 30+ years experience, nurseries in Segovia and Granada. Vertically integrated model spanning design, creation, maintenance, and restoration.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• Serco Group: UK-listed public services outsourcing group operating across transport, healthcare, and government contracts. Competes with idverde for UK public-sector facility and grounds maintenance tenders, particularly with rail, port, and municipal clients.
• Sodexo: Global facility management and food services incumbent with landscape and grounds maintenance offerings, particularly through its Sodexo Live! and corporate-services segments. Competes with idverde for integrated contracts at airports, sports venues, and corporate campuses.
• ISS A/S: Denmark-headquartered global facility services giant with a grounds maintenance and landscaping line. Significantly larger and broader than idverde, but a meaningful competitor on integrated facility-management tenders where green services are bundled into wider property-services contracts.
• FCC Medio Ambiente: Spanish environmental services arm of FCC Group operating in urban green space maintenance, parks management, and biodiversity - directly competitive with idverde's newly-acquired El Ejidillo platform in Iberia and across broader European municipal tenders.
• Veolia Environmental Services: French-headquartered environmental services giant offering ecological engineering, water management, and nature-based solutions that overlap with idverde's climate adaptation, water management, and biodiversity portfolios. Direct competitor on municipal environmental-services tenders.

Emerging players

• Bilfinger: German industrial and facility services provider with growing sustainability and ESG consulting offerings. Adjacent competitor on industrial green-space management (similar to idverde's Port of Rotterdam contract) and corporate sustainability mandates across German-speaking markets.
• PreZero: Schwarz Group's environmental services arm providing circular economy, recycling, and increasingly nature-based/landscape solutions across Europe. Adjacent competitor with overlapping municipal customer base and growing participation in EU sustainability tenders that increasingly bundle green services with waste/circular-economy offerings.

Direct peers

• Ground Control: UK grounds maintenance and landscape services company with a similar municipal and commercial customer base to idverde UK. Directly competes on parks, corporate estates, and biodiversity enhancement contracts across the UK.
• Atalian: Privately-held French facility services group with pan-European presence and significant grounds maintenance/landscaping operations. Closest scale and geographic comparable to idverde, competing head-to-head on French and broader European municipal and corporate contracts.
• Glendale Managed Services: UK-based grounds maintenance and landscaping provider directly competing with idverde UK on municipal, Royal Parks-adjacent, and commercial contracts. Closest comparable in service portfolio, customer base, and B2B/B2G go-to-market, though smaller in scale and UK-only.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/idverdeUK
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/id-verde

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A3 records

Investments

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