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AT A GLANCE
Primary product/service: COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION, INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION, PILE DRIVING, DRILLED SHAFTS, TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
Top local executives; DAVID H. ARRIGHI, SCOTT SIMONEAUX, KIRK JOHNSON
No. of local employees: 350
Year founded: 1996
Web site: www.group-industries.com
Phone: (225) 752-2500
Fax: (225) 752-2552
Ten years is a short time to build a construction company from the ground up to a $100 million business. But that's exactly what Group Industries LLC accomplished in only a decade.
The key to the company's phenomenal growth? According to David Arrighi, owner and founder of the Baton Rouge-based industrial and commercial construction company, it is planning and diversification.
"Much of our success is due to the strategic plan we created years ago and continue to implement," said Arrighi. "We discovered through our planning process that success would come from the diversification in geographical markets and our construction services."
By all accounts, the strategy...