IES Holdings Acquires Aerial Lighting & Electric

HOUSTON, Feb. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IES Holdings, Inc. (or “IES”) (NASDAQ: IESC) announced today that it has acquired all of the equity interests in Aerial Lighting & Electric, Inc. (“Aerial”), a Naugatuck, CT-based electrical contractor specializing in the design and installation of electrical systems for multi-family developments, with revenues of approximately $24 million in calendar year 2019.  Aerial will become part of IES’s Residential segment and continue to operate under the Aerial name.
Dwayne Collier, President of IES’s Residential segment, said, “The acquisition of Aerial reinforces our strategy to partner with strong management teams in attractive markets.  I am pleased to welcome to IES Paul Simko, who has been the majority-owner of Aerial since 1994, and Bob Carlson, who will be promoted to Vice President, General Manager and lead Aerial post-closing, as well as Aerial’s over 60 team members. We are excited to work with the entire Aerial team to strengthen and expand our combined presence in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.”Paul Simko, CEO of Aerial, added, “Aerial owes its success to its dedicated employees, many of whom I’ve known and worked with for decades. Partnering with IES offers Aerial the opportunity to join a company that not only shares our same long-term commitment to employees and customers, but also provides Aerial with deep industry expertise and the financial resources necessary to meet our expansion goals.”ABOUT IES HOLDINGS, INC.
IES is a holding company that owns and manages operating subsidiaries that provide electrical contracting and other infrastructure services to a variety of end markets, including data centers, residential housing, and commercial and industrial facilities. Our approximately 5,500 employees serve clients in the United States. For more information about IES, please visit www.ies-co.com.ABOUT IES RESIDENTIAL
IES’s Residential segment provides electrical installation services for single-family housing and multi-family apartment complexes. For more information about IES Residential, please visit www.iesresidential.com.ABOUT AERIAL LIGHTING & ELECTRIC, INC.
Aerial, established in 1985, is a multi-family electrical contractor with operations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. For more information about Aerial, please visit www.aerialelectric.com.Certain statements in this release may be deemed “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, all of which are based upon various estimates and assumptions that the Company believes to be reasonable as of the date hereof. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “project,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “seek,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “pursue,” “target,” “continue,” the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company’s actual future outcomes to differ materially from those set forth in such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of our controlling shareholder to take action not aligned with other shareholders; the possibility that certain tax benefits of our net operating losses may be restricted or reduced in a change in ownership or a change in the federal tax rate; the potential recognition of valuation allowances or write-downs on deferred tax assets; the inability to carry out plans and strategies as expected, including our inability to identify and complete acquisitions that meet our investment criteria in furtherance of our corporate strategy, or the subsequent underperformance of those acquisitions; competition in the industries in which we operate, both from third parties and former employees, which could result in the loss of one or more customers or lead to lower margins on new projects; fluctuations in operating activity due to downturns in levels of construction or the housing market, seasonality and differing regional economic conditions; and our ability to successfully manage projects, as well as other risk factors discussed in this document, in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2019 and in the Company’s other reports on file with the SEC.  You should understand that such risk factors could cause future outcomes to differ materially from those experienced previously or those expressed in such forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any information, including information concerning its controlling shareholder, net operating losses, borrowing availability, or cash position, or any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.Forward-looking statements are provided in this press release pursuant to the safe harbor established under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and should be evaluated in the context of the estimates, assumptions, uncertainties, and risks described herein.General information about IES Holdings, Inc. can be found at http://www.ies-co.com under “Investor Relations.” The Company’s annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, as well as any amendments to those reports, are available free of charge through the Company’s website as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.Gary S. Matthews, CEO
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