American Erecting Inc.

J. Tyler was founded in Houston, Texas in 1982 to address the demand in the market for high quality office furnishings, installation, project management, and corporate furniture management services. They became one of the first independent installation companies to provide innovated professional services including formal training of systems installers, full time on-site services to major corporations, extensive warehousing and inventory management services, and aggressive project and product management. They rapidly grew to be the largest firm of their kind in the Houston market. By 1986 they had over 100 full time installers, completing such notable projects as Conoco's world headquarters ( 16 buildings ), restacked 25 floors of systems for Chevron and designed and implemented the first state-of-the-art bar code asset management/inventory system for Methodist Hospital's facilities. They continued to excel in servicing some of Houston's largest companies such as restacking 45 floors for Shell Oil, providing 31 floors of systems furnishings for City of Houston headquarters building and 10 floors of furnishings for Landry's Seafood Restaurants headquarters building. QUALITY FURNITURE AND SERVICES IS OUR COMMITTMENT In the 1990's, J. Tyler made a strategic decision to focus on the performance contract segment of the office furniture industry. This strategic focus recognized that corporate America was increasingly sophisticated in their furniture purchases, seeking purposefully designed, aesthetically pleasing solutions to their office furniture needs, while delivering superior quality and the best possible performance-to-price ratio. J.Tyler is a strategic partner and Select Kimball Office Dealer and for National Office Furniture. Additionally they are strategic partners for AIS, Allseating, HON, Humanscale, Montel, Stylex, VIA and numerous others of the most respected commercial furniture manufacturers in the world. Today, J. Tyler provides customers with a full range of quality products and services. The design and CAD Department develops efficient space utilization assisting their customers in becoming more profitable. J. Tyler also offers unique shop services including furniture reupholstery, refinishing and custom design/built furniture. Nowhere else in the market can you find a more convenient, professional and cost effective combination of services. Delivery, Installation, Moving and Project Management teams are at your service to make moves, installations, and reconfigurations seamless, less problematic and more efficient. J.Tyler is proud to have the finest staff of project managers, designers, installation supervisors and technicians in Houston. Their service team has been named #1 in the Nation by our manufacturers. Their staff ranges from 10 to 32 years of industry experience. They are well equipped to deliver you a successful project and on-going services. In addition, J.Tyler backs up these valued members with not only their award winning service group but hands-on support from the principals of J.Tyler and their customer support group. As evidenced by their history, J.Tyler is the most consistent and stable dealer organization in Houston. Based on their successful 25 years of history, still under original founding ownership, J.Tyler is as old as all the other current dealers in Houston combined. They have maintained excellent credit and financial relationships with their vendors which has proven a great asset to their customers. Over their history there have been periods in the economy where the office furniture industry has been hard hit. Economic downturns, skyrocketing steel and fuel costs and challenging international competitive pressures negatively impacted manufacturers and commercial dealers all over the country. While most manufactures and dealer competitors downsized and experienced significant revenue loss, J.Tyler has worked hard to retain its outstanding staff and in fact increased its market