{"id":9771,"date":"2020-12-18T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:22:59","slug":"evi-industries-to-acquire-eastern-laundry-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/evi-industries-to-acquire-eastern-laundry-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"EVI Industries to Acquire Eastern Laundry Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evi-ind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EVI Industries Inc.<\/a>, headquartered in Miami, has executed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsequip.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eastern Laundry Systems<\/a>, a laundry equipment distributor based in Taunton, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>This acquisition is consistent with EVI\u2019s strategy \u201cto build the largest and most dynamic sales and service team in each geographic market\u201d to help promote the company\u2019s growing portfolio of products and to expand its service operations, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to welcome Eastern Laundry Systems to the EVI Family,\u201d said EVI Chairman and CEO Henry M. Nahmad. \u201cWe remain very active in our pursuit of additional acquisitions and strategic investments in other great businesses in our industry, and in those industries that meet our financial and strategic criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since October 2016, EVI has acquired 15 commercial laundry businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVI Industries Inc., headquartered in Miami, has executed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Eastern Laundry Systems, a laundry equipment distributor based in Taunton, Mass. This acquisition is consistent with EVI\u2019s strategy \u201cto build the largest and most dynamic sales and service team in each geographic market\u201d to help promote the company\u2019s growing portfolio of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9772,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}