KBS Acquires PE Facility Solutions (Pristine Environments)

by Katie Lee

Oceanside, Calif. — Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC (KBS), a leading North American provider of technology-enabled, integrated facility management services to the industrial, commercial, logistics, retail and grocery sectors, has acquired PE Facility Solutions, LLC (“Pristine”), a provider of facility management, contract cleaning and related services. KBS is a portfolio company of San Francisco-based private investment firm GI Partners. Pristine is owned by Massachusetts-based Great Elm Capital Corp.

“Pristine is an outstanding asset and its integration into the KBS platform is an important step toward advancing our expansion into targeted end markets and services,” says Mark Minasian, chief executive officer and co-founder of KBS.

Adds Hoon Cho, managing director at GI Partners: “Pristine is the seventh acquisition the KBS team has made during our partnership together, once again demonstrating that KBS is the buyer of choice for middle market facility service firms seeking liquidity, scale or partnership opportunities.”

“We are very excited to be combining our resources with KBS,” says Fergus O’Connell, Pristine’s chief financial officer, who will lead the Pristine integration and serve as executive vice president for business development at KBS going forward.

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC (KBS) is a leading North American provider of technology-enabled, integrated facility management services to the industrial, commercial, logistics, retail and grocery sectors. With more than 51,000 active customer locations in all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Puerto Rico, KBS sets the industry standard for delivering consistently high-quality, compliant and cost-effective facility service solutions. Based in Oceanside, Calif., the company is majority owned by GI Partners. For more information, visit www.kbs-services.com/.

GI Partners is a private investment firm based in San Francisco. Its private equity team focuses on investments in the IT infrastructure, healthcare, software and services sectors. For more information, visit www.gipartners.com.

PE Facility Services (Pristine Environments) manages, maintains and optimizes the performance of mission critical facilities for industrial, institutional corporate real estate owners in nearly 150 million square feet of specialized buildings throughout North America. For more information, visit www.pristine-environments.com.

Great Elm Capital Corp. is an externally-managed business development company that invests in the debt instruments of middle market companies with enterprise values typically between $100 million and $2 billion and a focus on special situations and catalyst-driven opportunities. For more information, visit www.greatelmcc.com.

 

SOURCE: Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC (KBS)

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