The Cook & Boardman Group, a specialty distributor of commercial entry solutions and systems integration services, has acquired Lanmor Services Inc. and Lanmor Services of Nevada, LLC, for undisclosed terms.
Founded in 2000, Lanmor Services provides a wide variety of commercial access solutions including electronic access control products, automatic operators, security systems, commercial steel doors and frames, wood doors, solution design and installation. Lanmor serves Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico.
The company will continue to operate under the Lanmor name and customer contacts will remain unchanged as a result of the acquisition, according to an announcement.
“Lanmor is a great example of our commitment to providing customers with a fully comprehensive opening solution. We are thrilled to welcome Kip and his team to the Cook & Boardman family of companies,” said CEO David Eisner.
“Lanmor has earned customer’s respect and loyalty by providing high touch communication, unprecedented service along with dedicated project management teams and highly skilled, cross trained technicians,” noted Lanmor President Kip Cunningham. “We are excited to join Cook & Boardman. Adding our 20+ years of combined security integrator experience along with the synergies of the 2 businesses, Cook & Boardman will further as the nation's fastest growing providers of integrated security solutions.”
Cook & Boardman is a distributor of commercial doors, frames and hardware, electronic access control equipment and specialty (Division 10) products. Platinum Equity acquired a majority interest in Cook & Boardman in 2023. Littlejohn & Co. remains a significant minority shareholder.
Lanmor represents Cook & Boardman’s second acquisition under Platinum Equity’s ownership. The company serves non-residential and multi-family markets including the commercial, education, government, healthcare, office and hospitality sectors from more than 70 locations across 23 states and nationwide through its ecommerce portal.
The company is also one of the nation’s largest providers of integrated security solutions, including physical security, access control, wireless networking, low voltage cabling, audio/visual and managed information technology products. The Cook & Boardman Security Integration Solutions division placed no. 8 on the 2023 SDM Top Systems Integrators ranking.