CEO of firm that bought PGT for $3.1B opens up about deal, future

Matt DeSoto didn’t start his CEO tenure 11 years ago at Miter Brands, what’s now one of the largest vinyl, aluminum, and fiberglass window firms in North America, as an acquisition CEO.

Back then, in 2013, the central Pennsylvania-based window business had four manufacturing facilities and some 1,400 employees. Not that DeSoto, whose father worked for a Miter predecessor brand named MI Windows, didn’t see opportunity in growing by acquisition. He did. And the company, he says, looked at a dozen or so acquisition targets. But it waited, mostly, DeSoto says, because he didn’t think Miter was ready.