Group Industries, the industrial construction firm headquartered on Jefferson Highway that operates Group Contractors and Arrighi Construction, has added another subsidiary company to its portfolio: Group Deep Foundations.
“The primary focus is to better serve our clientele,” Donn Peterson, business development manager for Group Industries, explains. “When we go to someone like Exxon as Group Contractors, but they really only need us for our deep foundations work, we want to be more responsive to what their exact needs are.”
The new company doesn’t mark an entrance into a new business for Group Industries, which since 2000 has had a division specializing in providing pile driving and drilled shaft services, with companies such as ExxonMobil, Valero, Dow, Motiva and Methanex among its industrial clients. Rather, it represents a streamlining and expansion of those services under a new company.
“We are excited to expand the services we offer to clients throughout the region,” Group Industries President David Arrighi says in a prepared statement. “Group’s expanded capabilities will support surrounding industries, general contractors, and other specialty construction companies while creating jobs throughout this region.”
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Group Industries also has offices in Lake Charles and Houston. The firm first began discussing creation of a Deep Foundations company in 2012, Peterson says, and it cleared the legal and regulatory hurdles involved in the process late last year.
Group Industries is listed No. 61 on Business Report’s latest listing of the top 100 area private companies, based on 2013 revenues. The firm jumped 16 spots from the year previous with revenue of $71 million, which was a nearly 58% increase over 2012 revenue of $45 million. The company has roughly 265 employees in Baton Rouge, and another 110 in offices elsewhere. —Steve Sanoski
