Arnica Contracting is a company dedicated to quality, no matter what service they are providing – and to clients within and around their home base of Merritt, BC, they provide a lot of services. Founder and owner Saxon Peters started Arnica Contracting in 2008, originally to provide landscaping and property maintenance services. Prior to that, Saxon had purchased a small skidsteer loader in order to do some work on a property he and his wife had bought. People started calling asking for odd jobs, which he would do in order to help pay for the cost of the loader. Those jobs became more and more frequent and he eventually decided to make a business out of it. At first, Saxon was the only employee and he operated the business part time, doing residential landscaping on his days off from his full-time job. After almost four years, he hired his first employee and started going after some commercial landscape contracts. That later morphed into property maintenance – the company started getting maintenance contracts for strata developments, strip malls, and various commercial and residential properties. Out of a desire to service those clients year-round – as well as a desire to retain staff year-round – the company later added snow removal to their service offering. From that point on, Arnica Contracting grew quickly. At their largest, they were handling roughly 130 commercial contracts located between two cities and one municipality. At that size, however, they couldn’t control quality the way they wanted, so they scaled back – now just do snow removal and property maintenance in the city of Merritt. FEBRUARY 2025
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