BrandSafway is a

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and

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company in the

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. BrandSafway has customers in 30 countries and has annual sales of 5 billion per year. The company provides

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to businesses around the world. They have 114 locations in the United States and Canada. The company has a total of 253 locations around the world.

History

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The company was started in 1919 and is headquartered in Georgia. Over the years the company expanded to other countries. The company has provided safety equipment on construction sites. In 2017, the company began to focus on safety equipment which would be needed to improve

infrastructure Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function. Infrastructure is composed of public and priv ...

. Bridges and other Infrastructure has begun to age in North America and BrandSafway began to focus on supplying the safety equipment which will be needed. In 2019, the company had over 38,000 employees.

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bought 45% of the company in September 2019. BrandSafway was valued at $6.7 billion at the time of the purchase. The company is often contracted to provide safety equipment for complicated jobs. Recently they provided scaffolding for the 120 year old

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and the Old Cathedral in

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. In December 2019 the company was hired to provide safety equipment and

scaffolding Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other man-made structures. Scaffolds are widely use ...

for work on the

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. In January 2020, BrandSafway announced the purchase o
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Locations

The company's global headquarters is in

Kennesaw, Georgia Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under its ...

. The company has 253 locations around the world.

References

External links

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{{Authority control Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States

Companies based in Cobb County, Georgia Safety engineering organizations American companies established in 1919 Privately held companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)