ATI Goes Shopping

American Technologies Inc., the largest family-owned disaster recovery firm in the U.S., in August received its first outside capital infusion from private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners.
 
In November, the Anaheim-based closed on its first-ever acquisition—Mark 1 Restoration Service Inc., which brings three offices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
 
Will ATI try for more acquisitions?

“Absolutely!” ATI President Jeff Moore said last week. “We hope to acquire at least one to three more companies this year. We are weeks away from another executed letter of intent.”

“Our future geographic expansion targets most of the country but the regions we are prioritizing include: Mid-Atlantic Region, Southeast Sunbelt Region, Great Lakes Region and Greater Southwest Region.”

Moore and his brother Ryan are the sons of Gary Moore, who began the company in 1989. They have grown it to more than 1,200 people. In 2012, the company was honored with a Business Journal Family-Owned Business award.
 
Since Gary Moore last September also picked up the Business Journal’s annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award, the company’s been doing more than thinking about East Coast expansion.

It’s been “extremely busy” with the multiple hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast, the wildfires that ravaged the West and the impact of the Polar Vortex in Texas, officials said.

In January, it launched a webinar series on various industry topics and a monthly newsletter with whitepaper downloads. It’s also planning a podcast series later this year.

“Our intent is to establish ATI as the industry experts,” Jeff Moore said.  

In February, it rolled out a new app, ATI Alert, to help its customers with crisis management, such as submitting incident alerts, creating checklists that can be used by multiple people and contacting an insurance provider or broker. Within a few weeks of its launch, the company reported about 1,500 downloads of the app so far.

“It is a wonderful tool that we are able to offer our clients to simplify and expedite their recovery process in the unfortunate event of a disaster,” Jeff Moore said.