South Central’s Top 110 Specialty Contractors

Revenue rises despite late ‘08 construction bust

In the magazine’s Top 110 Specialty Contractors list, specialty contractors with a permanent office in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi or Tennessee are ranked by their 2008 regional revenue.

By Sam Barnes

The five-state South Central region’s Top 110 specialty contractors had a little more than $3 billion in regional revenue, an improvement over the $2.4 billion earned last year, according to data compiled by South Central Construction magazine.

It is likely that contractors had yet to feel the full effect of the economic downturn for the reported period, ending Dec. 31, 2008.

In the magazine’s Top 110 Specialty Contractors list, specialty contractors with a permanent office in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi or Tennessee are ranked by their 2008 regional revenue.

The largest specialty contractors to make the list are YTG Inc. of Tupelo, Miss.; followed by Industrial Specialty Contractors of Baton Rouge, La.; EXCEL Group Inc. of Prairieville, La.; The Newtron Group of Baton Rouge; Brock Services Inc. of Baton Rouge; and Nashville Machine Co. Inc. of Nashville, Tenn.

In the breakout rankings, the Top 5 electrical contractors are Industrial Specialty Contractors, The Newtron Group, YTG, Integrated Electrical Services Inc. of Baton Rouge and Marathon Electrical Contractors Inc. of Birmingham, Ala.

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The Top 5 mechanical contractors are Ivey Mechanical Co. of Kosciusko, Miss.; Nashville Machine Co., Bernhard Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Lafayette, La.; Lee Co. of Franklin, Tenn., and Hardy Corp. of Birmingham.

To develop the ranking, South Central Construction e-mailed a link to its on-line survey to an exhaustive database of specialty contractors.

Sources used to create the database include McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge, various economic development agencies and construction associations.