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Asplundh

Zachary Crowell

Why meet them

Asplundh keeps buying companies (Fitzwater, The Control Group, a business in Australia) and has to decide how each one is branded.

What to say

"Fitzwater kept its own management after joining Asplundh. Do acquired companies usually keep their name and web presence, or move under the Asplundh brand?"

Research notes

Asplundh 'family of companies': Fitzwater (Oct 2025, kept its management), The Control Group, Australia (Sep 2026), Samsara fleet tech (Sep 2026). New co-presidents and COO in 2026.

Why the opener works

It refers to a specific, verified recent event and asks for their view instead of pitching, so they describe the systems or integration pain in their own words.

Tech stack deep diveScanned 14 Oct 2026
All accounts →
CRMSalesforce + Oracle
Marketing automationNone on site
FragmentationModerate to high
PropertyCRMMarketing automationCMS / commerceSales & intent toolsEmail & workplace
asplundh.comSalesforce + Oracle (SPF)None detectedWordPressNone seenMicrosoft 365, Proofpoint

What it tells us

  • Salesforce and Oracle send mail for the domain, but the website has no marketing automation at all. CRM exists; the website is not connected to it.

Acquisitions and their stacks

Asplundh rebrands some deals (Voltyx became Asplundh Power, Kupper became Asplundh Engineering Services) but leaves the rest on their own sites, from Webflow to Wix. None of them runs marketing automation.

Acquired companyDealWebsite todayCRM / marketingWeb platformIntegration
The Control Group (Australia)Sep 2026thecontrolgroup.com.auNone detectedWebflowOwn stack
Fitzwater Outdoor MaintenanceOct 2025fitzwateroutdoormaintenance.comNone detected; self-hosted mailWordPress + Asplundh's consent toolPartly integrated
Bobcat PowerMar 2025bobcat-power.comNone detected; ProofpointWordPress (Divi)Own stack
Chevron Group / Chevtrain (NZ)Jun 2024chevtrain.co.nzNone detectedWix; Google WorkspaceOwn stack
VoltyxMay 2024voltyx.com → asplundhpower.comNone detectedWordPress on WP EngineOn parent stack
Kupper EngineeringJul 2020kupperengineering.comBrevo; ZendeskWordPress (rebranded)Partly integrated

Wappalyzer.com cross-check

  • asplundh.com Confirmed WordPress with the Divi theme; no marketing automation, matching our scan.

How we scanned: each site was rendered in a headless browser (homepage plus up to three inner pages) and matched against the open-source Wappalyzer fingerprint set (7,600+ technologies), then cross-checked with public DNS: mail servers, SPF senders, domain-verification records and marketing subdomains (go., info., email.). Account IDs (HubSpot portal, Pardot, Klaviyo) show whether brands share one instance. Every account was also checked on Wappalyzer.com. Acquisitions come from press releases, SEC filings and trade press; each acquired company's own domain was put through the same scan. Back-office CRMs are mostly inferred from DNS, so treat "inferred" as strong evidence, not proof.