Griffon Corporation (the “Company” or “Griffon”), is a diversified management and holding company that conducts business through wholly-owned subsidiaries. Griffon oversees the operations of its subsidiaries, allocates resources among them and manages their capital structures. Griffon provides direction and assistance to its subsidiaries in connection with acquisition and growth opportunities as well as in connection with divestitures. Griffon also seeks out, evaluates and, when appropriate, will acquire additional businesses that offer potentially attractive returns on capital to further diversify itself.

Gehan Homes builds single-family houses in about 60 communities in and around Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Its houses range in price from the low $100,000s to the low $300,000s. Gehan Homes owns the land it builds on and provides mortgage brokerage through majority-owned Suburban Mortgage. Through cutting costs and slowing down production, the homebuilder is working to stay afloat in a market that has caused several competitors to file for bankruptcy or shut down operations. John Gehan founded the family-owned company in the 1960s.

Wood, Patel, & Associates will come. Also known as Wood/Patel, the firm provides civil engineering, surveying, land development, and construction management services in Arizona. Wood/Patel has extensive experience in hydrology and hydraulics, traffic engineering, and water/wastewater projects. The company has worked on such projects as Chase Field (home of the Arizona Diamondbacks) and Phoenix-area master-planned communities DC Ranch and Verrado. Wood/Patel was established in 1984 and is owned by its principals.

Kullman Buildings Corp. traces its roots to 1927, when Sam Kullman started a modular-building business to create prefabricated diners. As the popularity of the roadside eateries waned, the company morphed into building products for new markets. Kullman now makes prefabricated housing, prisons, schools, banks, equipment enclosures, offices, bathrooms, and even US embassies in places such as Turkmenistan. Kullman Industries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005 after a contract to build an embassy in Tajikistan went sour. The company emerged from bankruptcy as Kullman Buildings in 2006, when it was bought by entrepreneur Avi Telyas.

Sharpfibre may not put the fire out, but it will keep it down. The specialty contractor installs passive fire protection products, including fire stopping systems, structural steelwork protection, and fire-rated ductwork, ceilings, insulation, and partitions. The products it installs are designed to withstand about four hours of exposure to high temperatures and fire, allowing inhabitants of the building to safely escape danger. Sharpfibre also provides air sealing, thermal insulation, and acoustics design services. The company, which is located on the outskirts of London, was founded in 1987.

Phillips and Jordan, Incorporated, founded in 1952 as a small land clearing firm, P&J is a general and specialty contractor that still provides land clearing services in addition to industrial, commercial, and residential site development and heavy civil construction on dams, highways, bridges, railroads, and waterways. P&J also performs reclamation, landfill, and disaster recovery services. The latter includes handling some of the nation's worst disaster cleanups, including hurricanes, floods, toxic spills, and land and rock slides. P&J operates more than a dozen offices throughout the Southeast and in California. The Phillips family owns the company.

GIANT CEMENT HOLDING, INC. (GCHI), headquartered in Summerville, South Carolina, produces cement, concrete and aggregate for residential, commercial, and infrastructure projects. It is also one of the largest users of waste-derived fuels in the United States. Its subsidiaries include Giant Cement Company, Inc., Keystone Cement Company, Giant Resource Recovery, Inc. (GRR!), and Dragon Products Company, LLC. These companies manufacture and sell Portland Cement and masonry products throughout the eastern United States. GCHI is the fourth largest producer of cement on the east coast. Giant Cement Company, established in Egypt, Pennsylvania in 1883, commenced production at its Harleyville, South Carolina plant in 1948 and moved its corporate Headquarters to South Carolina in 1970. In 1984, Keystone Cement Company of Bath, Pennsylvania, became part of the Giant Group. In 2006, the parent company of Dragon Products Company, LLC, and Coastal Cement Corporation was merged into GCHI.Giant Resource Recovery, established in 1987, primarily recycles industrial waste products as a fuel source for the cement kilns. Cement kiln recycling provides an environmentally safe method of disposing of unwanted wastes, realizes significant energy conservation, preserves natural resources, and reduces the amount of coal needed to manufacture cement. Cementos Portland Valderrivas, S.A., based in Madrid, Spain, purchased GCHI and all of its subsidiaries in 1999. Cementos Portland Valderrivas is the largest cement company in Spain and operates cement plants worldwide.

RBB Architects just might be the BFF for companies that need programming, planning, and design services for institutional facilities construction. Markets include the health care, laboratory, commercial, and higher education sectors. RBB Architects works primarily in California, but also been involved in projects throughout the US and overseas. Services include feasibility studies and cost control; programming; space, strategic, and master planning; architectural and interior design; and post-occupancy evaluations. RBB Architects was established in 1952.

Gustave A. Larson Company is the Midwest, Plains and Mountain States leading wholesale distributor of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVACR) equipment, parts, & supplies. Our business philosophy is to focus on serving the needs of our customers, with a value-added, professional and enthusiastic attitude. We have 350 team members who serve our customers in seventeen Midwest, Plains and Mountain states through our 44 locations.

Smith Management Construction, Inc. (SMCI) provides general contracting and construction management services for office, retail, multifamily residential, and institutional projects ranging from commercial interiors and renovations to new construction in the Baltimore/Washington, DC corridor. Its clients have included the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the University of Maryland, and the US government. Together, president and COO Frederick "Rick" Wrieden and company vice presidents Ann Kerns Bowley, William Kirten, Robert Pronier, and Frank Talbot own SMCI.

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