Jim Abrams and John Young, who founded Contractors Success Group (CSG) and Service Experts Inc., and spearheaded consolidation of the residential HVAC sector, have joined with West Coast PHC service contractor Mike Diamond to do the same in the plumbing industry.
Abrams’ and Young’s new venture capital company, VenVest Inc., based in St. Louis, has teamed with Diamond to launch Plumbers’ Success Interna-tional. PSI will offer member contractors a curriculum of proven management programs “guaranteed” to in-crease their sales and profitability. Later, PSI plans to make purchase offers among its member contractors with the goal of taking the consolidated company public.