Encore Gas & Supply, a distributor of gas and welding supplies based in Long Beach, has been acquired by packaged gas distribution company Falcon Gases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The deal gives Falcon an initial platform in Southern California, taking over Encore\u2019s Signal Hill specialty and industrial gas facility and its three showrooms in Long Beach, Ontario and Valencia. Encore\u2019s president, Ben Anderson, said folding into Falcon will usher in the \u201cnext phase of growth\u201d for the company he co-founded in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to partner with Pete and the Falcon team to build a leading packaged gas and welding platform,\u201d Anderson said in a news release. \u201cWe will continue with the core belief that has made us successful to date: invest in customers, people and assets, and the rest will take care of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Planned growth<\/p>\n
The acquisition marks the beginning of a planned organic and inorganic growth spree for New York City-based Falcon, which launched in late 2025 and just received a majority investment from private equity firm Odyssey Investment Partners. Falcon\u2019s nascent effort will center partnerships with owners and managers, Chief Executive Pete Jeffe said, who\u2019ll \u201cwork cohesively\u201d with platform leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEncore and Ben stand out as the perfect foundational partnership, and we are very excited to build with them,\u201d Jeffe said in the news release. \u201cEncore has a track record of growth, exceptional customer service and a deep belief that people and relationships are what drive success.\u201d<\/p>\n
Falcon and Encore wouldn\u2019t be shaking hands now if it weren\u2019t for a change the latter made nearly a decade ago. The Long Beach-based firm, founded as Encore Welding Supply, leaned into its burgeoning gas distribution business after opening a Signal Hill gas facility in 2018. Two years later, it reflected that growing investment with a rebrand and jumped into \u201cmicrobulk\u201d services, which involve the installation of large gas tanks for customers on-site.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we started this business in 2014, we catered almost exclusively to welding and construction, particularly to those companies serving infrastructure and energy,\u201d Anderson said in 2020, when the company adopted its current name. \u201cSince then, while our commitment to and market share in those core areas have continued to grow, we have also experienced tremendous diversification in the number and type of industries we serve on a day-to-day basis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Encore Gas & Supply, a distributor of gas and welding supplies based in Long Beach, has been acquired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[194798,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-503523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-encore-gas-supply","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}