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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Recession-Proof Recipe for Growth


In 2006, Block Maintenance Solutions (BMS) began as a simple LLC that was comprised of Building Maintenance Technicians and Engineers in total about 16 employees.  The company remained unchanged until 2009. At that point, BMS began to grow. Over the next three years we grew to over 40 employees, and a full spectrum of building services that include:
 
  • Construction / build-out
  • HVAC service / installation
  • Electrical service
  • Plumbing
  • Locksmith and security
  • Project Management
  • Inspections
  • General Contracting
The revenues are up from approximately $600K in 2009 to a projected $3.6M for 2012. Anyone that has not spent the last 10 years in a comma, knows that the last three years have been some of the roughest economical times. How did we grow? We followed a simple recipe: