Aspen Waste Systems has expanded its service footprint with its entry into the Denver metro market. The company has begun operations with a local office in Commerce City that will provide services across the Denver metro area. In a model that has achieved repeated success in its other markets, Aspen Waste is establishing its Denver operation not through acquisitions but rather through sales-driven growth with a focus on customer service and quality.聽Denver represents the first market outside of the Midwest to be served by the 35-year-old, family-owned-and-operated company, which also serves the Twin Cities and Rochester, MN, Des Moines and Ames, Iowa, and the St. Louis, MO metro area.
Aspen Waste, whose business is 80% commercial collection and 20% residential, enters each new market from the ground up with a focus on building local connections and culture. The Denver metro market has become highly consolidated in recent years through acquisitions by large national companies and national private equity investors, and Aspen Waste鈥檚 leadership identified an opportunity to bring another option to consumers and businesses in the market.
Owner and CEO Robert Kircher founded Aspen Waste in 1990 with a single truck and one driver.聽Over the last 35 years, Kircher has implemented his vision for the business, which is now one of the 20 largest waste haulers in the country and the independent hauler of choice in the cities it serves. Including the newly opened Denver market, the company employs 350 people and operates a truck fleet of 240.