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| Morgan Contracting |
www.morgan1.com
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| Morgan Contracting Inc. (MCI), based in Baker, Florida, is a 22 year old specialty contractor specializing in water and waste water infrastructure. Qualified to do business in 46 states, MCI’s services include pipeline installation, design/build of waste water treatment plants and pump stations, and tunneling for local municipalities and water authorities across the United States. In addition to its Florida headquarters, MCI also maintains offices in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Louisiana. |
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| The Roberts Company |
www.robertscompany.com
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| The Roberts Company, based in Winterville, North Carolina, is a 32 year old industrial construction, fabricator, and plant maintenance contractor. The Company's field services division specializes in providing plant maintenance, plant retrofits and expansion services largely in the Mid-Atlantic region while it's fabrication division manufactures specialty pressure vessels, ASME code stamp holders, heat exchangers, reactors, columns, conveyors, skids/ducts/piping, high purity equipment, and storage tanks for customers in the United States and abroad. |
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| Payomatic |
www.payomatic.com
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| Founded in the early 1950s, Pay-o-matic is the largest licensed check cashing company in New York State and a provider of currency services to businesses through its wholly owned subsidiary, Rapid Armored. The Company focuses on providing alternative banking sources to consumers seeking alternatives to retail banks in order to gain convenient and immediate access to cash. Services include check cashing, sale of money orders, consumer bill payments, transit fare cards and domestic and international money wiring. |
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| Protective Armored Systems |
www.pasarmored.com |
| Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Lee, MA, Protective Armored Systems (PAS) is a specialty fabricator of ballistics glass for the government and private sectors. PAS is an expert in glass and polymer lamination, specializing in customized bullet-resistant and security glazing fabrication. Customers include goverment, law enforcement, architects, businesses and private individuals. |
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| Strategic Workforce Solutions |
www.strategicworkforcesolutions.com |
| Founded in 1995, Strategic Workforce Solutions is a global, full service provider of legal and professional personnel. Strategic specializes in the temporary, temporary-to-permanent and permanent placement of legal, financial services, IT, human resources, sales & marketing and administrative professionals at law firms, corporations and financial institutions. With offices in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and India, Strategic provides one-stop staffing services that are tailored to meet individual client needs. |
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| Midasco |
www.midasco.net |
Founded in 1982, Midasco provides installation and maintenance services for intelligent transportation systems, highway signing, lighting and signal categories in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Services include: estimating, bid preparation, engineering, project management, and full construction work on excavation, foundations, structure erection, electrical wiring, device installation, and integration. Midasco projects include the installation of signs and lights on interstate and local roadways, tunnels, parking lots, and airport runways; traffic and pedestrian signals; traffic detection using loops, cameras, and microwave detectors; decorative, roadway and high mast lighting; and lane control systems.
Midasco acquired Premier Lighting Contractors, Inc. (PLC) in June 2010. PLC is a specialty contractor focused on highway signs and lighting based in Charlotte, NC.
Midasco was sold in June 2011. |
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| Trimco |
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| Trimco Holdings (dba Zippers by Idara and Trim Solutions), founded in 1965 and headquartered in New York City, is a master distributor of trim apparel products and provider of consolidation services to contract manufacturers of U.S. apparel brands in the Far East, Central America, and the Caribbean. Trimco’s supply chain management services consist of sourcing, purchasing, quality control, and logistics management for its products which include buttons, zippers, hooks/eyes, woven labels, poly bags and hangers. |
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Trimco acquired Cresthill Industries, Inc. and Langer Button Companies, Inc. Cresthill and Langer are niche button manufacturing, sourcing, and distribution companies based in Yonkers, New York.
Trimco acquired Great Notions Merchandising in May 2008. Great Notions is a niche button sourcing and manufacturing company based in New York, NY.
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| Peeq Media |
www.peeqmedia.com |
| Founded in 1963 and headquartered in New York City, Peeq Media provides specialized digital printing and production services, with a focus on high-end photo retouching, point-of-purchase displays, digital asset management (DAM), and print-on-demand (POD) services. The Company’s more than 400 customers include advertising agencies such as BBDO, Burson-Marsteller, and Young & Rubicam, retail stores such as Coach, Tommy Hilfiger, and Nine West, and high-end consumer product companies such as Rolex, Tumi, and L’Oreal. |
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Peeq Media merged with EMR. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in NYC, EMR provides its clients a single solution for high-end graphic services. The company's clients include both multi-national corporations and small design concerns each of whom benefit from the unique combination of state-of-the-art technology and personalized service that defines EMR.
Peeq Media merged with Blue Ocean Worldwide in 2008. Blue Ocean is a Las Vegas, NV based provider of specialized digital and production services.
Peeq Media completed a merger with Toppan Printing to form Toppax, LLC in July 2011. Toppan Printing is U.S. based printing subsidiary of Toppan, a $19 billion revenue company based in Japan with 29 subsidiaries in 11 countries with over 48,000 employees. |
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| The Colibri Group |
www.colibri.com |
| Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, The Colibri Group designs, manufactures and markets branded jewelry, lighters, accessories, and clocks. Colibri sells is products to more than 7,000 independent retailers and large, national accounts such as Cole National Corp., Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and Zale Corp. Company brands include trusted household names such as Colibri, S.T. DuPont, Dolan & Bullock, Krementz, Kreisler, Princess Pride, Linden, and Seth Thomas. |
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| Classic Tuxedo |
www.classictuxedo.com |
| Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, Classic is a leader in the formalwear rental industry in the greater Boston region of New England. With the acquisition of Strictly Formals, Classic operates 15 tuxedo rental locations in Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island - supported by a central operating and distribution facility in Waltham, Massachusetts. |
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| Acquisition of Strictly Formal. Classic acquired Strictly Formal in December 2004. Strictly Formal is the leading formalwear rental provider in Maine. The acquisition brought 5 new stores under the Classic Tuxedo umbrella.
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| Sage Parts |
www.sageparts.com |
| Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Farmingdale, New York, Sage Parts is the world’s leading supplier of replacement parts for aircraft ground support equipment such as de-icers, cargo loaders, tow tractors, baggage systems, and passenger boarding bridges. Sage supplies airlines, freight carriers, and ground handling companies through 15 parts distribution centers in or around most major airports in the United States. |
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Sage acquired Creg International. Creg, founded in 1978, is a global distributor of replacement parts for ground support equipment to the aviation industry.
Sage Parts was sold in May 2008
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| Dormia |
www.dormia.com |
| Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Fishkill, New York, Dormia is a leading manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of specialty mattresses including memory foam (or visco-elastic) mattresses, airbeds, latex foam mattresses and waterbeds. Dormia’s manufacturing facility supplies Dormia brand-name and private label beds and accessories to a wide range of mattress retailers throughout the U.S. Dormia sells its brand-name products in 25 company-owned stores in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio and Indiana. |
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| Glass America |
www.glassusa.com |
| Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Glass America is a leading automobile glass replacement and repair business. The Company serves individual consumers and commercial fleets from over 70 stores in key markets including Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Texas and Vermont. |
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| Argan |
www.arganinc.net |
| The Bosselmann Group, founded in 1990 by Rainer Bosselmann and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, assumed control of Argan (AGAX.PK) in April 2003 with backing from Main Street Resources. Bosselmann will use AGAX as a platform for opportunistic, value-based acquisitions in sectors with high growth potential. Bosselmann is responsible for the success of Jupiter National (formerly AMEX:JPI) and Arguss Communications (formerly NYSE: ACX). |
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| Argan acquired Gemma Power Systems. Gemma, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, is the largest power plant builder in New England. The company provides the full range of development, consulting, engineering, procurement, construction, start-up, operation and maintenance services to the energy market. Gemma has a broad range of experience including boiler plants, cogeneration facilities, wood fired power plants, wind plants and other alternative fuel powered facilities. |
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| Argan acquired Vitarich Laboratories. Vitarich, founded in 1992, is a farm-to-market, vertically integrated private label manufacturer of premium nutraceutical products, including nutritional and whole-food dietary supplements and other personal healthcare products. |
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| Argan acquired Southern Maryland Cable. SMC, founded in 1982, provides wiring services to the federal government as part of its commitment to Homeland Security improvements.
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| Black Clawson / Davis-Standard |
www.davis-standard.com |
| Founded in 1873 and headquartered in Fulton, New York, Black Clawson Converting Machinery, Inc. designs and manufactures a wide range of equipment for the flexible web converting and plastics processing industries. Product lines include equipment for extrusion coating and laminating, cast film production, liquid coating and laminating, unwinding and winding and pelletizing. Black Clawson is a pioneer in the industry and operates a world class laboratory that supports the development of new, cutting edge technologies. Markets served include flexible packaging, tapes, labels, marking films, imaging media, pre-coated consumer and industrial products and resin production. For more information, visit, www.bcconverting.com. |
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Merger with Davis-Standard. Black Clawson merged with Davis-Standard, based in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, a world leader in the manufacture and supply of rubber and plastics extrusion equipment and industrial blow-molding machines. Davis-Standard extrusion machines are used primarily for the packaging, automotive, construction and medical industries.
The combined venture, Davis-Standard, LLC is a global provider of converting equipment with the broadest product offering in the world with operating facilities in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Davis Standard was sold in October 2006.
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| Disc Graphics |
www.discgraphics.com |
| Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, Disc Graphics is an ISO 9000 certified manufacturer and printer of specialty paperboard packaging focused on home video, music, entertainment software, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and other consumer products. Disc’s products include pre-recorded video sleeves, compact disc and audio cassette packaging, folding cartons for software, food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, posters, pressure sensitive labels and general commercial printing. Disc received the 2002 “Best Workplace in America” award from the Master Printers of America. |
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| Disc acquired Modern of California. Modern, founded in 1963, is a supplier of specialty packaging to the home video, music and other entertainment-related industries.
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| Vertex Distribution |
www.vertexdistribution.com |
| Founded in 1882 and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Vertex Distribution is a leading master distributor of stainless steel, corrosion-resistant and metric fasteners, offering over 12,000 items and custom manufacturing capabilities. Vertex maintains a network of distribution centers throughout the United States and Canada, through which it sells to industrial and hardware distributors under the brands: Bell Fasteners, Stillwater, West-Spec, and Zelenda Metric. |
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Vertex acquired West-Spec. West-Spec, founded in 1970, is a leading master distributor of corrosion-resistant fasteners with a strong west coast presence.
Vertex was sold in July 2005
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| Best Manufacturing |
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| Founded in 1914 and headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, Best Manufacturing is one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of institutional linen and garments across the U.S. Best services the linen rental, hospitality, medical, image apparel and other service related industries. Best has the largest geographic coverage and strongest distribution capabilities in the industry. |
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| Best acquired Artex International.
Artex, founded in 1933, is a leading manufacturer and supplier of textiles and garments for the textile rental and hospitality markets in the U.S. and abroad. Artex is a full line integrated manufacturer and has distribution centers and manufacturing facilities throughout the U.S., Asia, and Mexico. |
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| Best acquired H. W. Baker Linen Co. Baker, founded in 1892, is a leading supplier of textile products, amenities and guest room supplies to hotels throughout the US and Canada. Baker is headquartered in Mahwah, New Jersey with distribution centers throughout the US and Canada. |
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