Twin Cities-based recruiting and staffing firm George Konik Associates acquired PrimeStaff, a technical recruiting and staffing agency based in Shoreview, Minn.

The combined firm will operate under the brand name Konik PrimeStaff. The transaction closed Sept. 5; terms were not announced.

Founded in 1974, George Konik Associates is a second-generation, family-owned company. Approximately 80% of its business comes from the engineering and architecture sectors and 20% from IT; PrimeStaff exclusively targeted engineering and architecture. Both firms provide permanent direct placement as well as temporary contract temporary placement.

PrimeStaff founders Kathy Carlsen and Troy Harper will remain with the firm — Carlson in a sales manager role and Harper as an operations manager. PrimeStaff’s seven additional employees will also remain.

The acquisition almost doubles Konick’s client base in the Twin City area as the firms had only a 15% overlap in clients.

“Today, more than ever companies find it challenging to recruit candidates,” President Brad Konik said. “This is a merger of ‘like-minded’ organizations and people that are solely focused on engineering, architecture and IT recruitment and staffing. PrimeStaff’s reputation within the industry is outstanding.”