Ames Taping Tools Acquires Online Drywall Supply Store All-Wall

Ames Taping Tools, the leading provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies, and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, has acquired leading online drywall tool and supply provider, All-Wall (all-wall.com).

Michael Roth

Dec. 21, 2019

2 min read

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“All-Wall offers an appealing opportunity for Ames to strengthen and expand its product offering in the drywall tool and supply space,” said Jay Davisson, president and CEO of Ames Taping Tools. “We are excited to bring these two strong companies together. The acquisition of All-Wall supports the Ames focus on our customers and providing them everything they need to finish the job fast.”

"I’m extremely proud of all the success that the All-Wall team has been able to achieve over the years and this merger represents a new horizon for the All-Wall and Ames brands,” added Jason Weiler, president of All-Wall. “I look forward to both companies utilizing their synergies to bring exciting products and offerings to drywall professionals worldwide."

The expanded business will continue to operate out of Ames Taping Tools’ 76 company-owned stores across the U.S. for tool rentals and purchases in-store as well as tool and supply purchases online, worldwide though All-Wall.com and two brick-and-mortar stores located in Las Vegas, Nev., and Kirkland, Wash.

For more information on available products and services, visit www.amestools.com and www.all-wall.com.

Ames Taping Tools is headquartered in Suwanee, Ga., and is No. 82 on the RER 100.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.