Inspirit Equity-backed Sizemore is acquiring Carlson Building Maintenance, adding a 65-year-old Minneapolis janitorial firm to its facilities management roll-up.
Sizemore, a facilities management platform backed by Inspirit Equity, has signed a deal to acquire Carlson Building Maintenance, a Minneapolis janitorial company founded in 1959. Carlson serves more than 250 retail, grocery, and commercial locations across 10 Midwest states and will become a dedicated retail division inside Sizemore rather than being absorbed and rebranded. Owners Nick Giese and Kaylee Brown are staying on to run the division.
Inspirit Equity built its position in facilities management by acquiring Sizemore outright, then using it as a platform to buy regional operators like Carlson. Keeping Carlson's leadership team and self-performing workforce in place preserves the client relationships that made the company valuable in the first place, a pattern private equity buyers increasingly follow after early roll-ups burned trust by stripping out local management too fast. Sizemore gets an established retail and grocery client base in one transaction instead of building that book from scratch, while Carlson gets access to a bigger platform's resources and geographic reach.
Retail and grocery chains sign janitorial contracts based on consistency, not just price, so a change in ownership carries real risk if service quality slips during the transition. Sizemore is betting that Carlson's 65 years of blue-chip relationships translate into a stable base it can build additional service lines on top of. For operators watching the facilities management category, this is the second acquisition in as many weeks in the janitorial and commercial cleaning sector, a sign that consolidation is accelerating as private equity firms compete for regional operators with long-tenured clients and self-performing crews rather than subcontracted labor.
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