The Cook & Boardman Group, a distributor of commercial door entry products and a portfolio company of Littlejohn & Co., has acquired HC Quality Doors.
Headquartered west of Philadelphia in Gordonville, Pennsylvania, HC Quality is a supplier of commercial doors and hardware, and aluminum storefronts to the city of Lancaster and the larger southeast Pennsylvania market. The company also provides installation and maintenance services through its subsidiary Quality Door Service. HC Quality’s executive team of Levi Lantz and co-owners Ray Harnish and Mahlon Stoltzfus will continue to manage the business.
Cook & Boardman (C&B) distributes metal and wood doors, locks, doorframes, and electronic access control equipment and other specialty products to the multi-family and non-residential markets including the commercial, education, government, healthcare, office, and hospitality sectors.
The company operates through seventeen divisions including Cook & Boardman, Architectural Building Supply, Exactitude, Precision Doors & Hardware, Hollow Metal Specialists, Martin Architectural Products, RDL Supply, Delta Doors & Hardware, Specialized Architectural Products, and Pinnacle Door & Hardware. C&B also provides systems integration services through its A3 Communications division (acquired in April 2019) including electronic security (video surveillance and access control), wireless networking, low voltage cabling, audio/visual, and managed services. C&B sells its products nationwide through a network of 50 locations across sixteen states. The company, led by CEO Darrin Anderson, was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
“We are thrilled to welcome HC Quality and their dedicated and knowledgeable team to the Cook & Boardman family of companies,” said Mr. Anderson. “Their ability to provide total end-to-end solutions, including installation and maintenance of aluminum storefronts, will allow us to offer this valuable service to customers across our portfolio of brands as well as to our national accounts.”
The buy of HC Quality is C&B’s seventh add-on acquisition since being acquired by Littlejohn in October 2018 from Ridgemont Equity Partners.
Greenwich, Connecticut-headquartered Littlejohn makes control and non-control investments in middle-market companies that are undergoing a fundamental change in capital structure, strategy, operations or growth. The firm invests from $50 million to $250 million of equity in middle-market companies that have annual revenues of $100 million to $800 million. Littlejohn invests across a range of industries and acquires manufacturers, distributors, and service providers.
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