After more than three decades of growing multiple roofing contractor businesses, Gregg Wallick is at an enviable stage in his career. Though he’s still working hard and nowhere near ready to turn the business over to his sons, the president and CEO of Best Roofing in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has the luxury of not having to focus on where the next job comes from. And he’s taking a long-term view of where his company and the roofing industry as a whole are going.
Wallick bought Best Roofing in 2001 after spending more than 20 years building the General Roofing Services group of companies. Except for a few tough years during the Great Recession, he has focused largely on growth based on his years of “hands-on” roofing experience. In addition to the Ft. Lauderdale headquarters, the company opened a branch office in Miami and has roughly 200 non-union employees focused heavily on roof replacement and service work (90 percent) versus new construction.