{"id":22576,"date":"2013-04-17T23:22:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=22576"},"modified":"2013-04-17T23:22:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:22:58","slug":"progressive-waste-solutions-ltd-acquires-choice-environmental-services-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/04\/progressive-waste-solutions-ltd-acquires-choice-environmental-services-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. Acquires Choice Environmental Services Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22577\" title=\"Progressive\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Progressive.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"122\" \/>Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. (NYSE, TSX: BIN) announced today it has acquired, through its wholly owned subsidiary Waste Services of Florida, Inc., Choice Environmental Services, Inc. (\u201cChoice Environmental\u201d) for cash consideration of $123.25 million. Choice Environmental is a solid waste services company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Swisher Hygiene (NASDAQ: SWSH, TSX: SWI).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs one of the largest independent waste and recycling service providers in Florida, Choice Environmental brings residential, commercial and industrial collection operations, along with transfer and material recovery facilities, that are well-positioned in southern and central Florida,\u201d said Joseph Quarin, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Progressive Waste Solutions. \u201cWe are very pleased to add these assets, which strongly complement our existing collection and disposal footprint in Florida, to our growing network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Choice Environmental generates annual revenue of approximately $72 million through six collection operations, one municipal solid waste transfer station and one Material Recovery Facility (MRF).<\/p>\n<p>All questions related to products and services in Lehigh Acres, please contact:<\/p>\n<p>Choice Environmental Services of Lee County, Inc.<br \/>\n5594 6th Street West<br \/>\nLehigh Acres, FL 33971<br \/>\nOffice Hours:\u00a0 8:00 AM \u2013 5:00 PM<br \/>\nTelephone (239)368-2300<br \/>\nFax (239) 368-2800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. (NYSE, TSX: BIN) announced today it has acquired, through its wholly owned subsidiary Waste Services of Florida, Inc., Choice Environmental Services, Inc. (\u201cChoice Environmental\u201d) for cash&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}