Summers & Associates

Summers & Associates LLC manages The Garden Center Group and the Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Endowment Fund.

The Garden Center Group is North America’s resource for solutions for garden retailing – including benchmarking, budgeting, inventory and margins, marketing, merchandising, brand building, property and site design, human resources, team building, succession, and more. This alliance of more than 150 garden centers, service providers, and vendors works together to create a community of professionals with one goal in mind – helping each other build successful companies. The Group focuses on business solutions designed to help garden centers increase sales, improve operations, and retain more profit.

For more information on The Garden Center Group, visit www.thegardencentergroup.com.

Created in 1989 by the Southern Nursery Association (SNA), the Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Endowment Fund is a 501 (c) 3 charitable foundation providing academic scholarships to students in sixteen southeastern states.

The scholarship is dedicated to one of the most honored horticultural leaders, the late Sidney B. Meadows, who has been described as one of the industry's great humanitarians. Meadows was an avid supporter of student scholarships and believed that providing aid for students was the most important way to ensure the growth and development of all facets of the industry. Because of his beliefs and passion, many students are awarded scholarships each year. With the continued support of others, more deserving students can be this year's recipients.

The Fund's development is dependent upon individual and corporate contributions, is governed by the Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Endowment Fund Board of Directors, and is administered by Summers & Associates. Contributions or gifts to the Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Endowment Fund are tax-deductible as charitable contributions.

For more information on the Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Endowment Fund, visit www.sbmsef.org.