NSC Technologies acquired Anistar Technologies Inc., a national staffing company headquartered in Tampa, Florida, and Ascend Staffing acquired 1-Call Staffing, a temporary staffing company located in Kingman, Arizona.
NSC Technologies/Anistar Technologies
Anistar specifically focuses on providing skilled labor for low-voltage infrastructure, networking, structured cabling, audio/visual, security, and electrical subcontracting services as well as federal defense contractors. It provides consulting contract placement, direct permanent placement and/or contract to permanent placement assignments.
NSC is a shipyard staffing company headquartered in Portsmouth, Virginia. It is a portfolio company of White Wolf Capital LLC, a Miami-based private equity firm.
“Anistar further expands NSC’s presence within the technical and professional staffing segment, and also brings additional blue chip clients to add to NSC’s existing roster of other blue chip clients,” said Richard Leggio, a managing director at White Wolf.
Anistar employs more than 800 consulting professionals and has a diversified client base with more than 150 active client accounts.
The transaction closed June 17; terms were not disclosed. Darvin Boothe, co-CEO of Anistar, will remain with NSC, while the other lead executive plans to retire.
NSC Technologies in December acquired Staff Matters Inc., a staffing firm with offices in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. NSC also acquired two Indiana-based staffing companies in May 2019: Staffing Resources Inc. and ULG LLC. It is seeking acquisitions with revenue of $10 million to $150 million that provide industrial skilled and unskilled staffing, consulting and related services. It is targeting acquisitions that provide labor solutions for Naval and commercial shipbuilding and repair industries; and general industrial industries.
Ascend Staffing/1-Call Staffing
Acquired company 1-Call Staffing serves the administrative, light industrial and skilled manufacturing segments. It primarily serves businesses and non-profits.
The transaction closed in June and 1-Call Staffing will transition to the Ascend Staffing brand. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Headquartered in North Salt Lake City, Utah, Ascend’s targeted sectors include light industrial, shipping and receiving, food service, mail sorting, warehousing and hospitality. It operated as Intermountain Staffing since 1969 but changed its name last year.
Ascend is included in Staffing Industry Analysts’ report, “Companies Looking to Acquire Staffing and Workforce Solutions Firms: 2019 Update.” Recent acquisitions include Romeoville, Illinois-based Seville Staffing as well as Broomfield, Colorado-based Bolder Staffing Inc. and Bolder Professional Placements.
With the 1-Call Staffing acquisition, Ascend Staffing now counts 29 offices in nine states: Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, California, Colorado and Washington.
