Buy-to-grow strategy boosts $60M business

Conditioned Air faces a core challenge in its quest to grow through acquisition: to choose wisely.

  • By Jay Schlichter
  • | 6:00 a.m. November 29, 2019
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When Theo Etzel took over a Naples-based air conditioning company in 1995, the businessman had no HVAC industry experience.

 

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