EVI Industries Completes Acquisition of Laundry Pro of Florida
EVI Industries announced the completion of its acquisition of Laundry Pro of Florida, marking EVI's 27th acquisition in the commercial laundry distribution sector and its 11th in the Southeast U.S. region.
This acquisition aligns with EVI's buy-and-build strategy, which focuses on partnering with influential leaders, retaining leadership teams, fostering company culture, and driving growth through collaborative innovation. EVI aims to achieve aggressive growth plans by creating an ownership culture and motivating teams with long-term equity incentives.
- EVI Industries completed its 27th acquisition, enhancing its market presence and expansion strategy.
- The acquisition of Laundry Pro of Florida strengthens EVI's footprint in the Southeast U.S., a key growth region.
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Insights
EVI Industries’ acquisition of Laundry Pro of Florida represents strategic growth within the commercial laundry distribution and service industry. This acquisition, being the 27th in their portfolio, highlights EVI's aggressive buy-and-build strategy. This strategy involves acquiring well-performing companies and leveraging their existing leadership to drive growth and innovation.
From a financial perspective, these acquisitions can provide economies of scale, allowing EVI to reduce costs and enhance profitability through consolidated operations. However, investors should also be cautious about the company's ability to integrate new acquisitions effectively. Frequent acquisitions present integration risk, where disparities in company culture and operational inefficiencies could arise and negatively impact performance.
It's worth examining how EVI has historically managed its acquisitions and whether it has demonstrated the ability to maintain or improve profitability post-acquisition. For retail investors, understanding this integration capability is important as it can influence long-term profitability and stock performance.
Regional Expansion: With this acquisition, EVI strengthens its presence in the Southeast region, now having completed eleven acquisitions in this area. This regional focus likely aims to build a robust market presence and potentially dominate the regional market, leading to increased market share and customer base in a strategic location.
For investors, this consistent regional growth can signal potential for market dominance in specific geographies, leading to enhanced brand recognition and customer loyalty. However, they should also be aware of potential market saturation and whether EVI's growth strategy is scalable beyond the Southeast region. Understanding the competitive landscape in this region can provide insights into EVI's future growth potential and market positioning.
EVI’s Buy and Build Philosophy
Key components of EVI’s buy-and-build strategy include:
- Identify and partner with great businesses led by influential leaders,
- Retain the leadership team, honor the company culture and empower them,
- Collaborate on new and transformative ideas to foster a spirit of growth and innovation,
- Pursue aggressive growth plans and help the leadership team achieve their goals, and
- Create an ownership culture by motivating the team with long-term equity.
About EVI Industries
EVI Industries, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a value-added distributor and a provider of advisory and technical services. Through its vast sales organization, the Company provides its customers with planning, designing, and consulting services related to their commercial laundry operations. The Company sells and/or leases its customers commercial laundry equipment, specializing in washing, drying, finishing, material handling, water heating, power generation, and water reuse applications. In support of the suite of products it offers, the Company sells related parts and accessories. Additionally, through the Company’s robust network of commercial laundry technicians, the Company provides its customers with installation, maintenance, and repair services. The Company’s customers include retail, commercial, industrial, institutional, and government customers. Purchases made by customers range from parts and accessories to single or multiple units of equipment, to large complex systems as well as the purchase of the Company’s installation, maintenance, and repair services.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for the historical matters contained herein, statements in this press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, trends, performance or achievements of EVI, or industry trends and results, to differ from the future results, trends, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, that the acquisition of Laundry Pro may not be accretive to EVI’s earnings or otherwise have a positive impact on EVI’s operating results or financial condition to the extent anticipated or at all, integration risks, risks related to the business, operations, and prospects of Laundry Pro and EVI’s plans with respect thereto. Reference is also made to other economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other risks and factors discussed in EVI’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, those disclosed in the “Risk Factors” section of EVI’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, filed with the SEC on October 5, 2023, as amended by its Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, filed with the SEC on October 27, 2023. Many of these risks and factors are beyond EVI’s control. In addition, past performance and perceived trends may not be indicative of future results. EVI cautions that the foregoing factors are not exclusive. The reader should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement, which speaks only as of the date made. EVI does not undertake to, and specifically disclaims any obligation to, update or supplement any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of changes in circumstances, new information, subsequent events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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