EBJ Business Achiever of the Week: Cardno Ltd.

Our weekly salute goes out to Cardno Ltd. (Brisbane, Australia), winner of a 2010 gold medal in the mergers and acquisitions category for establishing a major environmental footprint in the United States through three acquisitions: ENTRIX (Houston, TX) and Environmental Resolutions Inc. (ERI; Irvine, CA) in June for about $106.3 million U.S., and JFNew (Walkerton, IN) in December. ENTRIX is a provider of environmental and natural resource consulting services specializing in water resources management, environmental risk management, facility permitting and compliance, and natural resource economics. ERI specializes in soil and groundwater remediation, primarily focused on the petrochemical industry. JFNew provides natural resource management, environmental permitting, and habitat restoration services and operates a native plant nursery in northern Indiana. Cardno consolidated ENTRIX and ERI into a new environmental and ecological consulting unit, and subsequently added JFNew to that unit. With these acquisitions, Cardno established a major presence in the U.S. environmental market with a staff of 900-plus people.For a full list of EBJ’s 2010 Business Achievement Award winners, please visit www.ebiresearch.com/2010_EBI_%20Awards. EBJ will begin accepting nominations for 2011 Business Achievement Awards in October.