Clearwater marine supplier expands into Texas with purchase

Decks & Docks, a 34-year-old Clearwater-based marine construction and outdoor living supply company, has bought a Texas supplier growing its footprint to 43 locations.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the purchase was of Bayou City Lumber, which is based in Houston.

According to a statement announcing the deal, Bayou City will operate under the Decks & Docks banner and continue on with its existing employees.

Bayou City distributes outdoor building products including treated lumber products, pilings, composite decking and seawall in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. It was founded in 1994.

Decks & Docks CEO Shawn Roberts says in the statement that expanding along the Gulf Coast and into the Texas market has long been a priority and “we view Bayou City as the ideal partner to do that with.”

Decks & Docks was founded in 1991 and is a distributor of marine construction and outdoor living supplies. It is known as a “one-stop shop” for contractors with a suite of composite decking, railings, pilings and vinyl seawall, according to the statement.

It currently operates a network of 43 facilities across 13 states, shipping both in the U.S. and internationally.

Late last year, the New York private equity firm CCMP Growth Advisors partnered with Roberts and Decks & Docks’ president Tyler Wallace to buy the company. When the deal closed it was announced that the men would “remain significant shareholders, with CCMP Growth providing capital to buy out the remaining shareholders and enable the management team to execute on their growth plan.”

Bayou City is the eighth location added since then.

That includes the July purchase of two outdoor building material suppliers, the outdoor supply arm of Excelsior Lumber in Butler, New Jersey and Fence & Deck Direct in Baltimore, Maryland.