Evive Brands Acquires Pacific Lawn Sprinklers

Evive Brands (backed by The Riverside Company) Acquires Maid Brigade

June 23, 2025

Professional Services

Evive Brands, a franchise platform backed by The Riverside Company, has acquired Maid Brigade, a residential and commercial cleaning franchisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The add-on strengthens Evive’s home-services portfolio—now approaching 1,000 franchise territories across its brands—and Maid Brigade will continue operating under its existing leadership while gaining shared technology, training and marketing resources.

Evive Brands Acquires The Brothers that just do Gutters

December 8, 2023

Construction

Evive Brands, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company, has acquired The Brothers that just do Gutters. The transaction is an add-on to Evive's franchise platform to expand into broader residential services and strengthen its footprint in home exterior/franchise services; financial terms were not disclosed.

Riverside-backed Evive Brands Acquires Shine (Shine Window Cleaning)

December 3, 2025

Consumer Products

The Riverside Company has invested in Shine (Shine Window Cleaning), which will be integrated as an add-on to Riverside portfolio company Evive Brands. Shine, a Jenison, Michigan–headquartered franchisor operating over 75 territories across 20 states, will join Evive’s home-services platform to accelerate franchise growth and expand residential and commercial exterior services.

EverSmith Brands (Riverside) Acquires U.S. Lawns from BrightView

February 1, 2024

Environmental Services

EverSmith Brands, a franchised-services platform owned by The Riverside Company, acquired U.S. Lawns from BrightView Holdings as an add-on to the EverSmith portfolio. The acquisition adds a national commercial landscaping and snow-management franchise network headquartered in Orlando, Florida, to EverSmith's commercial facilities brands to accelerate growth and leverage synergies with existing platform assets like Clintar.

Rain Bird Corporation Acquires Rachio, Inc.

October 1, 2025

Building Products

Rain Bird Corporation has acquired Rachio, Inc., a Denver-based maker of cloud-connected smart irrigation controllers and related smart-home irrigation products. Rachio will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary led by CEO and co-founder Chris Klein, combining Rain Bird's irrigation manufacturing scale with Rachio's connected-home technology to expand sustainable irrigation and smart-product offerings.

Riverview Landscapes Acquires Irrigation and Landscape Management's Landscaping and Snow Business

December 17, 2025

Environmental Services

Riverview Landscapes acquired the landscaping and snow management business of Irrigation and Landscape Management, Inc. (ILM), a Parsippany, New Jersey–based provider of commercial landscaping, irrigation design/installation, drainage and fertilization services. The deal expands Riverview's Northern New Jersey footprint and irrigation/snow-management capabilities and is the company's 19th acquisition since 2022; ILM founder Steven Raibick will remain involved in a consulting capacity.