About
Shemin — The Landscape Supply Company had its beginnings in 1955 when its founder, Emanuel (Manny) Shemin, began to convert his family's retail greenhouse and nursery center into a wholesale horticultural distribution business serving the needs of the landscape professional. Mr Shemin perceived the need and opportunity for this kind of operation as a result of increasing real estate values which forced the producers to locate further and further away from their markets causing extremely long supply lines to meet the needs of the enormous building boom which occurred following World War II. In 1967, Shemin relocated from the Bronx, New York to a site in Greenwich, CT, and began to develop...