The directors of Pelsis Holdings (UK) and Curtis Gilmour announced that an agreement has been reached to bring together the brand portfolios and operations of the two companies with immediate effect.
The activities of the two companies are highly complementary to one another and together give access to a broader range of customers, and geographies, for the consolidated product range.
The existing shareholders of each company — LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, in the case of Pelsis and Harwood Capital in the case of Curtis Gilmour — have maintained their respective investments in the new holding company, reinforcing the commitment of both investors to the future of the business.
Pelsis has leading brands in both the professional and consumer pest control categories.
Curtis Gilmour’s brands include the B&G Equipment line of professional sprayers, Curtis Dyna-Fog premium fogging products, as well as the Agrisense and Silvandersson trapping and monitoring brands.
The consolidated portfolio will be led by Pelsis Group CEO Peter Mangion, and will continue to operate from its current facilities in the U.S. and in Europe. Both companies recognize a core strength of the other is their respective distribution, distributor and sales representative network means of going to market, about which there is no intention to change.
Mangion said, “The bringing together of these great brands creates a compelling offer to customers large and small across the USA and Europe, an offer which covers the full needs of the professional pest controller as well as the end consumer.”
Curtis Gilmour Executive Chairman and Harwood Operational Adviser Carl Contadini said, “Our history with Pelsis dates to better than a decade ago when P+L Systems was a subsidiary undertaking of one of Harwood’s portfolio companies. The combining of these two companies into an enlarged group, and our reunion with Pelsis, settles an ambition we have pressed since we formed Curtis five years ago.”