Distributor Chadwick-BaRoss Acquires J.F. McDermott Corp.

Distributor Chadwick-BaRoss Inc. has completed the acquisition of J.F. McDermott Corp., a Whitman, Mass.-based distributor since 1942 of equipment to the water and wastewater industries.

Michael Roth

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Volvo Construction Equipment

Sept. 23, 2021

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Distributor Chadwick-BaRoss Inc. has completed the acquisition of J.F. McDermott Corp., a Whitman, Mass.-based distributor since 1942 of equipment to the water and wastewater industries. Under the announced deal, all of McDermott’s employees will be joining CBR, under the leadership of CBR president Jim Maxwell. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“We are pleased to be able to welcome J. F. McDermott’s staff and lines of business as they join the CBR team, becoming our ninth location in New England,” said Maxwell. “McDermott’s business and expertise, as well as their long tradition of excellence in customer service, will be an outstanding complement to CBR’s existing operations and growth strategy as a leader in heavy equipment sales, leasing, renting, and servicing in the New England market. We’re excited about the possibilities and relationships we can build upon for McDermott’s customers and look forward to continue serving them in an expanded fashion.”

Chadwick BaRoss sells and rents Volvo Construction Equipment, Takeuchi, Link-Belt excavators, Atlas cranes and excavators, Paladin, Allied Construction Products, Husqvarna and multiple other brands.

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.