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Based in Indianapolis, Kaiser Heating & Air has office locations in Indianapolis, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Nashville, and will become part of Direct Energy’s Airtron division, a HVAC services provider for residential new construction in various U.S. regions.
As part of the move, about 150 to 200 New Jersey-based senior management positions and about 100 South Carolina-based positions will relocate to Charlotte between now and September 2019.
Since joining the Hiller team full-time in 2010, Jimmy Hiller Jr. has been an integral player in the company’s rapid annual growth and resulting successes.
A committee reviewed the applications submitted this year and actually increased the number and amount of the scholarships awarded to reflect the high quality of the applications received.
The transaction is an implementation of one of the main pillars of The Carel Group's strategy, which envisages a growth path through mergers and acquisitions aiming to strengthen its core business, increasing market share in the reference geographical areas and in contiguous applications.
As vice president of sales and customer care, Frank Fuller will develop and execute a commercial strategy to achieve not only sales growth but to expand new business opportunities as well.
Autodesk and PlanGrid have developed complementary construction integration ecosystems to which customers can connect other software applications. The acquisition is expected to expand the integration partner ecosystem, giving customers a customizable platform to test and scale new ways of working.